"I went back to Ohio last week and went out to dinner with my sister," said a woman I started talking to at the hairdressers. "When someone new came into the restaurant, people just kept on talking and didn't look. It suddenly hit me that in L.A., the entire restaurant always turns around whenever the door opens, to see who it is."
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18 April 2007
Restaurant behavior: L.A. vs Ohio
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