What is "customers"

Usage examples of "customers".

Schrafft, who built his chain by offering lunch customers more genteel surroundings than his competitors did.

Catering mostly to single men and women, the boarding houses served basic fare and usually required that customers eat quickly to make room for more diners.

Harvey wanted his customers to respect his efforts at quality and cleanliness and insisted that all men wear jackets in the dining rooms.

Such uniformity did not guarantee identical food everywhere, since by design Harvey varied the meal offerings at each stop, but customers knew that their food would always be excellent.

Harvey Houses, most restaurant customers in America were neither wealthy nor train passengers.

Such food wagons were constructed in large factories on the frames for horse-drawn trolley cars and were made to seat several customers inside the wagon, at a counter on a row of fixed stools.

Usually open twenty-four hours a day, these small restaurants attracted customers for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snacks in between.

Hungry customers were soon attracted to the novelty, taste, and convenience of these sausages, usually buying two at a time.

The novelty of these stands was that customers did not have to go there to eat a meal but, rather, just for the soda drinks.

The concept behind this new approach was that customers could combine their shopping and eating in one stop.

Adding to the many different types of restaurants opening in the early twentieth century were cafeterias, through which customers filed in military-style serving lines, and the famous Automats, where customers deposited coins into slots and removed their food choices from small cubicles with glass doors.

Although his meatballs sold well, many of his customers wanted a more convenient way to carry them as they walked around the fair.

Most popular among his customers was a flattened patty smothered with onions, seared on both sides and served on a bun instead of bread slices.

Anderson found that this way it did cook faster and even that many of his customers preferred it to the traditional style.

He soon solved this small problem and the other minor start-up difficulties that plague many new businesses and quickly discovered exactly what his customers wanted.