 After the death or her husband Don, Alice Hyatt is on her way to Hollywood to become a singer, but her car breaks down in Phoenix with her son Tommy. She has no money so she takes a job at Mel s Diner. Mel is a loud, cheap man who pays very little. Alice s co-workers are the man hungry Florence Jean Castlebury nicknamed Flo, and the ditsy but lovable Vera Gorman. After Flo leaves for a hostess job, she is replaced by Belle Dupree another aspiring singer who only stays around for about a year because she gets her dream. She is replaced by ex-truck-driver, sarcastic Jolene. Many interesting people were regular customers Henry and Earl etc. In later seasons Vera got married to the lovable Elliot. In the very last episode Mel sells the diner to a contractor, Vera is pregnant, Jolene opens a beauty salon and Alice finally gets her dream of being a singer. The show was around for 9 seasons and was a TV version of the Oscar winning movie "Alice Doesn t Live Here Anymore".