The country's first "diner" opened in Providence in 1872, when Walter Scott began serving sandwiches, coffee and pies to factory and newspaper workers from a horse-drawn wagon. He left a job as a pressman at The Providence Journal for the venture.

If this is news to you, join the club. Even America's leading diner expert, "Dinerman" Richard J.S. Gutman , said Scott's name was not widely connected with diners for decades.

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