"Once in a while I forget to change," he said during a recent dinner rush.

When we first came in, I thought we had just beaten the dinner rush.

With the dinner rush far behind, only a third of the restaurant tables were occupied.

Late in the afternoon the cafeteria was quiet, nearly empty; most of the lunchtime crowd had left, and the dinner rush hadn't started yet.

Supposed to be four after the dinner rush is over and then two after everybody's tucked in.

Often, during the dinner rush, he broke out in song.

At Quilty's, that was when the dinner rush started.

The lunch crowd has cleared out and it's two more hours before the dinner rush.

And this was just minutes before their dinner rush.

The dinner rush was over by now, so I was able to walk right up to the hostess desk.