diners

基本解释

Diners use a touch panel to order soup and other side dishes, which are delivered to tables on special express conveyor belts.
用餐者利用一个触摸面板来点汤或其它的菜，这些食物再通过特殊的传送带送到餐桌。
Although we had to wait for seats at a restaurant that will never get a Michelin star and were squeezed into the 16-square-meter restaurant with another 18 diners, we didn't care one bit.
虽说一家要让顾客排队的餐厅注定得不到米其林星星，虽说我们必须和其它18个食客一起挤在一间16平米的“蜗店”里面，但这丝毫没有让我们介怀。
You're only really done when your code is running in production - and there are no complaints from the diners.
只有当代码在产品环境下运行才说明你的任务确实全完成了——并且食客们没有任何抱怨。

In his photographs of gas stations, diners and cemeteries he found a beauty so simple but commonplace it was often overlooked, so unspeakably true but poignant it was rarely acknowledged."

That meant he had to keep hopping around the table to accommodate the diners.
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Diners may enjoy lunch from noon to 5 p.m. and dinner until 11:30 p.m.
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