Answer:

DINER

Answer	Crossword Clue
DINER	Eatery
DINER	Quintessential American eatery
DINER	Refurbished caboose, maybe

DINER	Oblong eatery
DINER	Greasy spoon
DINER	Guttenberg film of 1982
DINER	Train-car eatery
DINER	Restaurant, or a restaurant patron
DINER	Setting of Hopper's "Nighthawks"
DINER	Hash house
DINER	Short-order cook's workplace

DINER	Home fries server
DINER	Mel's place, in a sitcom
DINER	Roadside eatery
DINER	Dagwood server
DINER	Hash server
DINER	Railroad car
DINER	Casual eatery
DINER	Roadside sign

DINER	Eatery traditionally modeled after a rail car
DINER	Alice's workplace
DINER	Restaurant patron
DINER	Eatery with its own lingo
DINER	Place to get eats
DINER	Alice's restaurant
DINER	1982 Levinson film about an eatery
DINER	1982 movie set in an eatery

DINER	Greasy spoon, e.g.
DINER	Refurbished railroad car, maybe
DINER	Converted caboose, maybe
DINER	Truck stop
DINER	Roadside restaurant
DINER	Eatery that's the setting for the Hopper painting "Nighthawks"
DINER	Restaurant that serves grits for grub
DINER	Place likely to serve breakfast all day

DINER	"2 Broke Girls" setting
DINER	Beanery
DINER	Blue plate place
DINER	Where to down some grits
DINER	Informal eatery