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A Russian, while visiting California, defects and locks himself in Cassie's locker, claiming he loves her.

Sonny thinks he has struck gold with a record company and quits his job at the restaurant in a big way.

Vicki's father comes to town for a visit and Vicki is worried about his reaction to the skimpy outfits she must wear for work. However this worry pales in comparison to her discovering her dad and Nancy having a one night stand.

Amy is feeling lonely so to pick up her spirits, the girls take her out to a singles bar. However, each one of the girls encounter a man who is far from Mr. Right.

Nancy is unexpectedly fired from her hostess position at the restaurant. Her firing is not the only surprise as is the reason she was fired which forces her to come face to face with age discrimination.

The hotel hosts a murder mystery but things turn surprisingly real when Sonny becomes the prime suspect in a murder.

The girls are forced to stay late and take inventory. This leads each girl to tell a story about the worst date they ever had.

A visiting princess becomes the target of terrorists who plan to make off with her extravagant diamond necklace. However, Dot accidentally intercepts a drugged napkin intended for the princess.

During a date, Nancy suffers a hernia and when her physician discovers it, he insists that she have it operated on immediately. However, an old phobia about hospitals surfaces and she flat out refuses treatment. Meanwhile, Amy tries to get the girls to go in on a shady vacation property venture.

Cassie's one night stand is a dream for her but it turns into a nightmare when she is publicly humiliated by the man's wife in the restaurant.

Dot serves jury duty and becomes the hold out juror. Meanwhile, Nancy and the other waitresses must deal with Dot's absence from work.

The President may visit the restaurant and everyone passes the security check, that is except Howard.

Jan and Richie's wedding may be postponed when the judge fails to appear and it seems that the honeymoon may be a threesome.

Jan hits it off with a fan repair man who whisks her off her feet. Their relationship goes faster then she expected when he suddenly proposes.

Amy gets a surprise visit from her father who has come to California to take his little girl back to Texas and away from her new city life.

Cassie is reluctant to stay with her latest boyfriend since falling in love is something that she is uncomfortable with. Meanwhile to impress him, she decides to cook a meal, with a little help from her fellow waitresses.

Jan makes a mistake when she accepts her economics professor's offer to go out on a date. However, when she tries to break off their romance, he hands her an ultimatum: sleep with me or I'll give you an F in the course.

The staff must stay calm when a fire breaks out in the hotel a few floor below the restaurant. They must also try to keep the customers as calm as possible which proves difficult at times since the customers include a bickering married couple, a money grubbing televangilist and a man who's having an affair on his wife.

Jan wants to be able to afford to pay for ballet lessons for her daughter, so she picks up a second job, preparing invitations. However, her second job begins to interfere with her job at the restaurant which prompts Nancy to fire her.

Vicki's plans are ruined when tenants change their minds about moving out of an apartment which is to be hers. This prompts the other waitresses to talk Cassie into putting her up for a few days.

Amy anguishes over what she should do with her Valentine's Day present from Bobby Lee, the key to his hotel room.

Dot quits to become a full-time unemployed actress. Meanwhile, Sonny writes a musical based on Attila the Hun and Ginger's footwear fetish spreads to Amy.

Nancy drops heavy hints about her upcoming birthday and expects a party to be thrown. Meanwhile, Jan and Richie fight and Sonny pleads to join Dot's car pool.

On a night when everyone wants to leave early, the majority of the staff systematically becomes trapped on the roof, leaving Amy, Nancy and Howard to deal with a mob of customers.

Dot gets a noisy puppy after her cat dies and Sonny quits rather than miss a date with a roller derby queen.

Cassie falls in love with a cowboy who is a millionaire and is shocked when she learns she also has to like him to be with him.

After having a big argument with her husband, Lois runs into her high school sweetheart who wants to pick up where they left off. When he gives Lois his hotel key, a concerned Dot and Vicki follow her and try to stop her from making what could be the biggest mistake of her life.

Dot has been cast in a slasher movie and she studies up by watching a batch of slasher films. This leads her to have a scary dream that takes place at the restaurant.

Terrorists from a Third World country take the restaurant hostage.

Dot's in the hospital with a relentless cheery roommate while the hotel is swamped with WWII veterans.

Dot and Vicki begin dating the same man which only aggravates the situation at the restaurant where Nancy imposes a crash diet on Cassie and Jan.

Amy and Ginger decide to have a double wedding at the restaurant.

Sonny is ecstatic when his sexy hairdresser agrees to move in with him. However, getting to first base gets a bit hard when his father shows up for a visit. Meanwhile, Jan discovers that someone in her home has been dialing 900 numbers.

Dot's habit of neighbor watching entangles her in what appears to be a woman's murder.

The staff becomes infected with baseball fever, after a baseball team invades the restaurant.

Nancy reviews her relationships with her employees during a visit to her psychiatrist.

Sonny's in love and plans to marry if his fiancee can get to the church on time. Meanwhile, Howard prepares for a visit from his high-school sweetheart.

As the staff prepares for a wedding reception, Nancy dozes off and has a bizarre dream about her own marriage, ten years in the future to Sonny.

Dot's in charge of a children's play ""Little Red Riding Hood"" but when the cast is quarentined with the chicken pox, the restaurant staff is asked to fill the roles.

Dot is thrilled about her new part on a soap opera until she realizes her character is in imminent danger of being killed off.

Nancy has just the solution to Howard's mid-life crisis: she invites him to a square dance, and she won't take no for an answer.

Nancy is having a bad week: hotel management wants her to search the waitresses' lockers, and Howard wants her to back off.

Sonny's dreading an impending visit from his mother: she's never forgivin him for becoming a lounge singer instead of a classical pianist.

After seeing Howard flirting with a much younger woman, Nancy begins considering having a face lift.

Dot has a monumental case of jitters on the opening night of her new play on account of her journalist boyfriend is assigned to review her performance.

Richie hits the big money which lands Jan in a mink coat. However, is his sudden success short lived?

Jan has hopes of reuniting her divorced parents but there is one hitch in her plan, her father is newly engaged.

Ginger's efforts to campaign for her favorite senator makes front-page news when she's photographed sitting on his lap.

Sonny becomes an instant hero after saving a choking victim by administering the Heimlich maneuver. Meanwhile, Nancy and Howard contemplate taking seperate vacations.

The waitresses wax philosophic when a journalist interviews them about the pros and cons of their careers.

Nancy and Howard's marriage is put to the test when Nancy falls for Howard's old navy buddy.

Richie's aspiration to move to North Dakota is put to a halt by Jan who announces she's pregnant.

Jan tries to ward off a developer's plans to build a mini-mall in her neighborhood and Ginger uses a book of voodoo spells to conjure up a perfect date.

Sonny finds a little black book that leads him to intrigue and a red-hot lady.

Phil sets Sonny up with a new singing partner while Dot employs a marriage broker.

Dot and Sonny are both feeling lonely, so thet stay late at the restaurant to cry on each other's shoulder.

The series opens with innocent Vicki contemplating going out on a date with a pilot. She's even more worried about what's going to happen after the dinner, since she still is a virgin.

Ginger weighs the merits of two boyfriends while Howard weighs offers from other restaurants.

A romantic evening alone in the hotel is anything but for Jan and Richie, who weather interruptions from the restaurant staff.

Fur flies after Ginger buys Jan's car and Amy asks Dot to act as a go-between with a handsome new employee.

When singer Jack Jones checks into the hotel for a few days, he strikes up a friendship with Nancy and invites her to Las Vegas for a long weekend.

Dot doesn't get quite the response she had hoped for after placing an ad in the personals column.

Ginger's grandmother shows up on Ginger's doorstep, complaining that her son won't let her drive anymore. Meanwhile, Sonny decides to make a music video in the restaurant.

When Dot's friend comes to Hollywood seeking fame and fortune, Dot gets her a job in the restaurant washing dishes.

Louie throws Sonny a surprise 40th birthday party that ages Howard a few years.

Ginger's successful career oriented mother comes for a visit and Ginger is reluctant to discuss her career as a waitress with her.