Wiktionary
n. (context US English) An informal cafe that serves milk shakes and similar products
Usage examples of "malt shop".
The other was a PRC hunk of junk,jive junction, starring Dickie Moore, about a bunch of hepcats jitterbugging at the malt shop.
Then the local police showed up, wondering why a call placed from this house had somehow tripled the bully's tab at the local malt shop.
I was coming out of the malt shop across from Administration when two Letter sweaters came in, shoving me aside.
That same morning she found a job working afternoons as a cashier at the Roost, a popular sandwich and malt shop across from the campus.
Why could we see Archie and Betty and Veronica on dates at the malt shop, but never screwing around in Archie's dad's basement covered in oil stains, spit and semen?
It wasn't something a couple of high school hackers dreamed up just for the hell of it over chocolate shakes at the malt shop.
Soon enough they are at the Harvest Moon, a Fifties-style malt shop with lots of chrome and neon.
The monsters are like, all wasted, so let's go down to the malt shop, daddy-O!
In front of a brightly-lit sandwich-and-malt shop he slowed and halted, looked uncertainly through the windows.