She finds that single diners increasingly consider themselves worthy of good treatment and are assertive about their needs.

The cramped storefront, which opened in December, is small, and has lots of single diners reading over dinner.

The bar is a comfortable spot for single diners.

Couscous was an overly generous dish, too much for a single diner.

A $6.95 salad arrived in a large bowl that no single diner could finish.

The single diners visited 20 Island eating places during 1994, and its members rated each of them.

The record by a single diner, Ms. Russell said, is 42.

No single diner, even the most gluttonous, could eat every item on the menu.

The arrangement for a single diner is called a place setting.

But single diners were at somewhat of a disadvantage.