There is no convenient spot to wait on busy nights, so customers linger at the small bar in the front of the dining room.

A Place to Linger The store is designed to encourage customers to linger and perhaps to mingle.

Encore is one of several bookstore chains that encourage customers to linger by offering an espresso bar, special events and music.

But customers frequently buy a cone and linger outside, where the names of all the pharmacists who ever worked there, along with their years of tenure, are listed on the front window.

But the plan puts the officials in the uncomfortable position of threatening one of the town's few successful businesses - and the kind of place where customers linger, talk about family, tell jokes.

With or without a meal, customers can linger for hours.

Many serve as informal neighborhood gathering places where regular customers linger over caffe latte and muffins.

A few customers lingered while twin chartreuse waiters hovered nearby.

A few customers lingered.

A few old-time customers lingered at the bar for a few hours longer.