Chinese diners do not expect nor receive them, and neither does anyone else unless they are requested.
At these prices diners expect velvet service and exciting, creative food.
Suburban diners also want more value for their money and expect entrees accompanied by one or even two vegetables.
Why do many diners expect the worst, not the best?
What else besides good food can a diner expect?
Whether the experience has been smooth or not, the diner should expect diplomacy on the restaurant's part.
Thus when the menu is brought, a diner already half expects old standbys.
The diner ordering it expected separate chicken and veal preparations on the same plate.
Too often, menus turn out to be poetic fantasy, when diners expect them to be fact.
At his standard price - $72 for a three-course dinner - diners expect to see a lot of food on the plate.