That meant he had to keep hopping around the table to accommodate the diners.
When the diners finally file out, the corpse of a lion is sprawled across the table.
In its early days, the Diners Club card took a hefty 7% cut of the tab from restaurants that accepted it.
Paul Milsom, managing director at the restaurant, said the diners arrived at about 20:30 GMT but did not have a reservation.
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With each word, the diners craned their necks further, discreetly trying to glimpse the handmade wontons before the dish arrived in front of them.
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Most of the diners are neighbours and friends of the family.
New York would starve without the diners Greek immigrants set up.
At sunset, the place is filled with food stalls, ranged in tightly drawn rows, benches for the diners, strings of lights overhead, food banked up in the middle and beside it, a griddle.
Restaurant profiles provide users with location, website, phone numbers, and estimated wait times, while some control is also put in the hands of the diners with a rating option that allows the users to breakdown the wait time by none, short, long, and full.
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The staff - and most of the diners - are dressed in black-and-white in sympathy, and it's probably no accident that by far the most popular of the 80 immaculately presented tortillas on the menu is the colour-coded morcilla de arroz de Burgos: black sausage and white rice.
The increasing popularity of the OpenTable.com website among diners and the added advantage of being able to make reservations using the OpenTable application for mobile phones will boost the number of diners booking tables on OpenTable in the future.
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The more diners on OpenTable, the more restaurants that want to join, and so on.
In the Dong Xuan Center, the lunchtime diners are primarily Vietnamese but the restaurants are also popular with students, hipsters and bargain-hunting wholesalers.
The perks it offers diners comes in the form of dining points that diners accrue with each honored reservation they make on OpenTable.
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OpenTable has seen substantial growth in the recent past from the number of diners using the OpenTable system to book tables online.
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The other diners seem to be tiring, but I am just hitting my stride.
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And the periodic torrential downpours threatened to collapse that tent on the 25 diners who were sitting there.
Led by two English-speaking hosts, one foreign and one local to provide different perspectives, guests convene in the ground-level lounge and bar where they enjoy a Malabeca cocktail (malbec, pisco and apple juice) and mingle with the other diners.
Diners can search the menus, along with reviews posted by diners, to find the food they want and then order and pay online.
With the number of diners making reservations directly using the OpenTable website expected to grow at a faster rate than those making reservations using restaurant websites, the reservation revenue generated by OpenTable per diner seated is forecasted to increase in the years to come.
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While we anticipate that the number of diners will reach 10 million by the end of our forecast period, Trefis members predict more substantial growth towards 12 million.
Over a year, the number of diners seated shows a spurt in the first and fourth quarters, moderate growth in the second quarter and negligible to negative growth in the third quarter.
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The services appeal to diners by eliminating the need for a kitchen drawer of takeout menus, while also helping them discover new pickup and delivery options in their neighborhoods.
The most anxious of diners can recruit the waitress to give a nod when a party is leaving, try again on a Tuesday night or a Saturday morning, or head across the street to Five Leaves, which shares owners and is a definite restaurant, wait list and all.
And while it delights the palate, diners must consider: Istanbul flourished as the capital of a vast Eurasian empire for 500 years.
It is so popular the overspill of diners happily co-exists with pub regulars watching the football.
We expect the number of diners seated through toptable.com will rise steadily in the years ahead.
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