fast-food place

They worked at the same fast-food place in Ramona’s hometown in western Tennessee.

That night over dinner, which we have at a fast-food place because Brooke kept us rehearsing “O Mio Babbino Caro” forever, I tell Dad how Tim, Siraj, and Emily are all working together in the talent show.

Since 1916, the Rite Spot, a fast-food place along the old Route 66, at Pasadena’s western border on Colorado Boulevard, had been run by the Sternberger family.

“I have to run away so I can feed my family,” said Mustafa, a waiter at another nearby fast-food place who had come to the pizzeria for tea and a chat with friends among the staff.

“Once that’s gone, you just have what you have everywhere: a fast-food place, the Whole Foods, a doctor’s office.”