If the hipsters don’t / won’t / can’t make it work in these urban areas, it dies.
No Coke, Pepsi...
I suspect in New York, Maryland and other liberal states, the main reason why diners are dying is taxes.
Who can afford the State sticking their hand deeper into your pockets as they nickel and dime you to death with taxes, permits, and so on?
Regulation and taxes ran them out of business.
Been replaced by Food Trucks which the young LOVE!
Still a lot of diners in Southern Connecticut and at least in Westchester Country, NY.
“feta cheese, soft black olives and grilled fresh tomatoes whose juice seasons the toasted pita. “
I’d rather nail my soft parts to a burning stump than eat that.
I grew up in NYC, I can’t even look at a picture of it now without getting physically nauseous. All these white out of state College indoctrinated hipster d-bags with their Occupy wall street, black lives matter protests. I don’t remember ANYONE like that when I was growing up, that crap just did not happen. Probably the closest was protests about the Vietnam war which usually would end with the hard hat construction workers beating the crap out of them. Now they got all these white croissant eating, latte drinking, effeminate bitch a*s self righteous backpack wearing twits with bandanas over their face trying to be “rad man”, like these idiots...........
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Obama sole our lunch money and then forced us to buy BarryCare.
I travel a lot. The old mom and pop diners aren’t out there anymore. The only places to get breakfast are fast food joints. I think one need to make too much money to run a smaller operation today.
50th street and broadway, the star diner, excellent.
I prefer scrambled eggs with smoked salmon and fresh berries.
We have a diner downtown, I read the city’s sesquicentennial book that had a picture of Main Street from 1950, you can see the neon sign, and it’s the same one there today. Ate breakfasts there when I lived downtown.
It isn’t just New York and other urban / hipster areas. Even in areas outside of the cities with substantial older populations, the diners are disappearing. And the ones that are left are DINO — diners in name only. Pre-processed food at high prices. Simply cashing in on the nostalgia. My grandmother and grandfather used to go to the Limerick Diner in Limerick PA several times a week for years in the late 70s and 80s. I used to go a fair amount too. Then new ownership increased prices substantially and downgraded the quality of the food. Another diner that several generations of my family went to in Phoenixville, PA — the Vale Rio Diner — finally went belly up too. Its a shame.
Stay out of the NYC cesspool, where there is no 2nd amendment for law abiding citizens, while armed thugs roam the city.
I have written down the Greek eggs recipe and I can hardly wait to try it. It sounds great.
The diners have gone the way of five and dime stores. Whatever happened to Woolworth’s, Kresge, Grant’s, JJ Newberry, etc??? All of those stores are gone.
Aside from an occasional deli sandwich, which I eat at home on a plate, I refuse to eat anywhere I can’t get my meal on a real plate. Have to agree breakfast can be the hardest meal to find on a plate. In my town of about 60,000, there are five places you can get breakfast on a plate and only three of those local mom and pops.
Businesses can’t afford the taxes and customers can’t afford the prices needed to pay the taxes. It’s not easy to make money selling food even in a friendly business environment.
They seem to have missed a chain of five diners in Manhattan that are very popular. They are owned by good businessmen from Greece who have the sense to do things like get 50-year leases. (Rumor is that the Empire Szechuan Gourmet lady owner buys all her buildings to avoid getting one of those displacing rent increases. Not sure how true that is, but smart if she can afford it.)
My main complaint about diners is that they tend to go trendy instead of just improving the quality of the food and keeping it diner fare.