coffee room

"It was loneliness and the need for me to make a fresh start really," Bob explains from a small makeshift coffee room.

That's a view echoed by Robert Burnett, one of Bob's pals back in the coffee room.

Fairchild’s successes were so numerous that by the time the enterprise outgrew its first facility, Dr. Moore wrote in an essay, the tiles in the coffee room ceiling “were peppered with the imprints of all these champagne corks.”

Though he was a lifelong fan of diners — from the casual and inexpensive to the haute Fountain Coffee Room tucked into the Beverly Hills Hotel — he never dreamed of owning a diner of his own, at least not until 2021.

In the coffee room is a sign that says, “You don’t have to be crazy to work here. We’ll train you.”