Diner

A diner is a simple North American restaurant, which is located mostly outside of closed places and cities to highways and thus has the function of a motorway service station. It has the late 19th century developed from mobile food stands, for the discarded railroad dining cars were used, which are called in English dining car; it originated as an abbreviation diner. Today's dinner are small buildings, prefabricated. " The food was restricted for reasons of space and moved between fast food and restaurant. "

History

The Diner developed at the end of the 19th century from mobile food stalls. As a pioneer in the United States applies a snack salesman named Walter Scott of Providence, Rhode Iceland, 1872 a discarded railroad car been converted into and thus the evening before the offices of the newspaper Providence Journal posted because the restaurants closed in the vicinity of the evening. He sold simple meals such as sandwiches and coffee. His idea proved to be successful, so soon found imitators. Since 1880, Samuel Jones presented from Worcester in Massachusetts specifically for the Imbissbetrieb Diner coach with seats that were already clearly also mobile and the operators allowed the change of location. These early dinner there was within larger cities. 1905 Patrick Tierney began in New Rochelle trying to build stationary dinner that reminded only externally and in size to the former dining car. The meals offered were simple and inexpensive.

After the First World War, more and more operators Diner settled outside of cities in suburbs and along the highways. On heavily visited sites these fast-food restaurants were open around the clock and offered breakfast, lunch, and dinner. In the 1930s there were in the United States around 6000 diner.

Until the Great Depression, most diner manufacturers and their customers were located in the northeastern United States. After the Second World War, when the economy returned to civilian production and the suburbs grew, Diner were considered cheap way to set up a small business. In this time also in the Midwest numerous diner. From the 1970s, the diner, however, were increasingly replaced by fast-food chains such as McDonald 's, Burger King, Wendy's and Kentucky Fried Chicken. Some fast food establishments such as Dairy Queen are a mix of old style and modern Dinern fast food restaurants.

Architecture

Diner are usually narrow and elongated shape, which allowed the road transport to the restaurant location. The interior is dominated by the service counter, with a preparation area along the back wall and high chairs for the customers at the front. The decoration habits changed with time. The diner from the 1920s to 1940s showed Art Deco elements, or copied the interior of dining cars of trains ( actually served sporadically disused railway wagons as dinner). In the 1950s, stainless steel, glass blocks and neon light dominated the interior. Modern Diner are more designed like normal restaurants, with some reminiscences of the traditional diner architecture (usually stainless steel and Art Deco elements).

Cultural Significance

In television and cinema productions dinner are available for the period of growth and optimism in America in the 1950s. They are used as a place where teenagers meet after school and as an important part of a rendezvous. The cultural impact of the Diner is still felt today. Many restaurants (including chains such as Denny's ) the appearance of the Diner took over from the 1950s, while the houses of the Waffle House chain copied the architectural interior structure of the diners.

Diners are similar to the fast-food chains, places with a high recognition value, used for food and as a meeting place. The food and prices are usually quite uniform (especially within a region ), except for areas with large immigrant population, in which many foreign cuisine. Diner are often open 24 hours a day, especially in the cities, making them an integral part of urban culture.

Trivia

In parts of the states of New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania Diner are often written dinor. This relates to an area with about 50 miles radius around Erie, Pennsylvania. So far there is no scientific consensus on the origins of different spelling.