Sentences with phrase «works in a diner»

If you saw the 2007 movie with Keri Russell, you may remember the plot of Waitress as being something like: Lady works in diner, gets unintentionally pregnant, hates husband, bakes a lot of pies.»

Eliot Ness, the former leader of the legendary Untouchables, wished only to spend the rest of his days working in his diner, not dwelling too much on the cesspit of corruption his city, Santa Esperanza, had degenerated into.

Synopsis: Jenna (Keri Russell) works in a diner in a small Southern town and is a genius at creating luscious desserts, but her marriage to an overbearing lo... [MORE]

We are firstly introduced to a mother - daughter dynamic between a woman who works in a diner, Eva (Carmen Ejogo) and her daughter, Cali (Zoe Soul).

Remi works in a diner by day, but sings on street corners and attracts the attention of Jude, a young music producer with his own troubled past.

Living with her mom, attending night classes and working in a diner, her life is what anyone would consider as «ordinary.

Now imagine a woman who works in a diner who has those three characteristics.

The modern urban progressive has nothing in common whatsoever with the common folk who work in diners or factory floors or repair toilets.

Not exact matches

Panera, meanwhile, has worked hard to stand out from the crowd by promising diners that the chain's food uses «cleaner» ingredients, a move that it feels makes it more on trend with prevailing trends today as consumers — in particular millennials — want better quality foods.

I worked at a supermarket deli, washed dishes in a diner, skinned and cleaned deer at a meat locker, detasseled corn, baled hay, and did masonry work.

Single men and women account for nearly 30 percent of all households in the United States, but yet the public perception of eating alone remains negative.I inadvertently tested the social reaction of being a solo diner at a local restaurant / bar this past weekend while waiting to meet friends after work.

Serving diners a 100 percent plant - based and vegan culinary experience for breakfast, dinner, dessert, and lunch on the go, The Ravens» co-creative kitchen is led by Sid Garza - Hillman, author, certified nutritionist, and long - time vegan, who works in close contact with chef team Sadhana Berkow, Ubaldo Salazar, and Big River Nurseries gardener Clayton Houghland.

Grill Concepts took full ownership over the Ritz in 2015 and began working on a plan to reboot The Ritz to appeal to modern diners with a new look and updated menu.

COO Stephen Sawitz is the great - great grandson of the original «Joe» in Joe's; he says the family owned Florida staple works hard at keeping the décor, menu, atmosphere and ambiance as consistent as possible for loyal diners as well as local and tourist first - timers.

Hemma Vasastan: «Hemma» means home in Swedish, and this charming restaurant wants diners to feel as comfortable as if they were dining at home (minus the work, of course).

But she wasn't looking to open one herself after returning home from working at Tartine Bakery in San Francisco until she and her cousin / co-owner, Lucy, found this fading diner four years ago.

Hannah had to work in the early afternoon, so she and I had a diner breakfast at home — bacon, sauteed apples, eggs / egg white scramble and hash browns.

The food's great, but it doesn't prepare you for what's to come in the evenings, when Park throws down a white tablecloth and serves a single group of six diners the «juhnyuk tasting,» a seven - course menu that refracts the foods of his Korean - born, New Jersey — raised upbringing through the techniques he accrued working the line at fine - dining spots in Chicago.

And in what seems like typical fashion for anyone who's ever worked at Diner or Marlow & Sons, the idea for creating a floating restaurant came together casually.

«Coté is excited to bring diners to the source of their food in hopes of showing the work that goes into growing each tomato and harvesting every eggplant... artfully plated dishes... the freshest seasonal bounty.»

She said that when she started in June of that year, she saw no evidence of any prior marketing efforts and essentially had to «start from scratch» while working in a basement office of what was then Singh's Chow Down Diner in Bethpage.

Having no particular dream or direction, he worked a number of odd jobs — drilling water wells, cleaning carpets, working in a gas - station diner.

Nothing compares to the excitement and immediacy of sourcing ingredients directly from farmers, and working with produce as it becomes available, and seeing her excitement mirrored in the eyes of farmers and diners alike.

She is a regular contributor to the Boston Globe Food Section, and her work has appeared in many publications such as Saveur, Food and Wine, Whole Living, Fine Cooking, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post, the Chicago Tribune, Edible Boston, Living France, the New York Times Diner's Journal, and in many other international magazines.

And I know that my own Grandfather Dailey built a little diner in southwest Michigan, working hard through the years of the Great Depression, along with my grandma, to provide for my mama and her sister.

While I wish I were camped out in my favorite 50's inspired diner, tucking into an ice cream float, instead I'm spending most of the day in the lab working through a new technique, which will no doubt go horribly awry before it works out.

Yenque has also had the honor to work with his mother Teresa Yenque, as well as Lisa Vidal and Miriam Colon, in The Blue Diner (2001).

Jenna (Russell, Mission Impossible III) is a pie diner waitress working in a pie shop in a small southern town, married to an abusive, possessive husband (Sisto, Angel Eyes), and quite unhappy with the current state of her existence all around.

It begins in a small town in Texas, where Grace (Selena Gomez) works as a waitress at a local diner with her best friend Emma (Katie Cassidy) and is about to graduate from high school.

Eventually, Elizabeth decides that it's time to move on, literally, by making her way across the country, working at dive bars and diners in order to earn enough for her next move.

In the midst of all of this a woman named Maggie (Jessica Chastain) leaves Chicago and comes to work for the brothers at their diner / gas station.

That's one reason why I was impressed by a film that may not have come on your radar yet, although it has played at various American festivals — Life and Nothing More, by Antonio Mendez Esparza, a Spanish director working in the U.S.. It's the Florida - set story of a mother - son relationship, about a teenage boy going through problems at home and at school, and his mother, who keeps their household together through a series of diner jobs while dealing with the attentions of a fond but potentially troublesome suitor.

She has moved on from him and is working as a waitress in a small diner and is now dating another man.

The day job consists of a retail position working in a Boston - based megastore while nights are spent reading at an all - night diner.

I am a Jersey boy, but currently reside right outside Philly so it's pretty unique to see a film that features several of the landmarks that I drive past each and every day including Eagles Stadium, the Llanerch Diner, and the middle school that is right next to the high school in Upper Darby, which my girlfriend works.

Blue Iguana, meanwhile, is a black comedy that revolves around ex-jailbirds Eddie (Rockwell) and Paul (Schwartz), on parole and working in a New York diner, They are enlisted by and English lawyer Katherine Rookwood (Fox) to go to London and steal a gem called the Blue Iguana.

In the film, single suburban mother Susan Carpenter (Naomi Watts) works as a waitress at a diner, alongside feisty family friend Sheila (Sarah Silverman).

«The Petrified Forest (1936)» Official Premise: Gabby lives and works at her dads small diner out in the desert.

Working with a smaller budget, it's basically a four - character film which wouldn't suffer too much from being staged in a theatre — featuring unusually long dialogue scenes in diners, restaurants and motel rooms, with staccato rhythms and masculine posturing borrowed from David Mamet, another of Anderson's key, acknowledged influences.

Rose recruits her perpetually out - of - work sister Norah, newly fired from her job at a diner, to assist in the crime - scene cleanup, but the two quickly discover that they're in way over their heads, leading to some amusing bumbling.

The Tony award winner will play a rock musician in a band who meets up with Fiona and her family at a new diner where she works.

Unfolding in flashbacks, The Killers provides a number of memorable scenes, especially the sizzling opener in a diner in a small town where Lancaster has worked at a gas station for seven years since the robbery.

And while the diners are in sleek cocktail dresses and suits, Beatriz is in jeans and a work shirt, struggling to fit some words about goodness and healing into the Darwinian capitalist conversation.

Having slain a succession of monsters in the «Lord of the Rings» sagas, Mortensen finds himself doing some of the same work as Tom, the mild - mannered owner of a diner in small - town Indiana.

The movie is set in a contemporary working - class America of motels, diners and grubby racetracks, but Haigh says it also has «almost a fable-esque element about it.»

He is still very much a child but has taken on the financial onus for his divorced single mother, Susan (Naomi Watts), who works as a diner waitress to raise Henry and his 8 - year - old brother, Peter (Jacob Tremblay), in upstate New York.

His conspicuous absence, in turn, translated into less quality time with her exhausted mom (Tasha Smith) who had to work long hours at the diner to make ends meet.

The monotony makes sense in the early scenes, when Bliss goes along with her mother's (Marcia Gay Harden) wish that she participate in beauty pageants, works at a local diner, and otherwise yearns for something more out of life in Bodeen, Texas.

When he's not in class you can generally find him working diligently at a diner to help make ends meet at home.

The diners who showed up would be seated in the window to create a buzz - worthy scene for passersby (yes, that old trick... still around because it works!).