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 The
original, classic diner is a modular restaurant built in
a factory and shipped to its site complete with furniture,
fixtures and equipment.
- Throughout their history, diners have been neighborhood
restaurants which attract a cross-section of America, from
factory workers to high society.
- The roadside diner was born in 1872 in Providence,
Rhode Island, as a horse drawn wagon, operating only at
night after all restaurants had closed for the evening.
- Over the 116 year history of the diner, the function has
always been to provide a good, inexpensive, home style meal
in a comfortable atmosphere, but the design of the building
has changed.
- The diner industry turned out ornate, elaborate
wagons during the Victorian era.
- Less elaborate lunch cars were built in the "machine
era" of the late 1920s.
- Sleek, streamlined gems characterized the
forward-looking 1930s. This period, and the post-World War
II boom, was the golden age of the diner, when the newest
and flashiest materials were put to use in diner design.
- Colonial and Mediterranean-style diners/restaurants became
the standard image after the fast food boom encroached upon
the diner's turf in the 1960s and 1970s.
- 1989: The first Silver Diner, an innovative,
brand new, old-style diner built by Kullman Industries,
Avenel, New Jersey, opened for business at the Mid-Pike
Plaza, Rockville, Maryland.
- 1997: The first Silver Diner comes to the Philadelphia-area,
the "Broadway" of diner cuisine, with the opening
of the restaurant chain's 11th Northeast U.S. outlet in
Cherry Hill, New Jersey.
- 2000: Silver Diner opened its newest generation
prototype with its first store in Virginia Beach, Virginia
and another store in a mall, Lake Forest Mall in Gaithersburg,
Maryland.
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