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With the key exception of a vacant lunch counter on the ground floor, the Landmark Center is now 100% fully leased and occupied by about 25 tenants, seven of them relatively new, following a whirlwind of lease signings.—Frederick Melo, Twin Cities, 8 June 2025 The last operating lunch counter, in Bakersfield, California, no longer owned by Woolworth, closed in 2022.—Katya Cengel, Smithsonian Magazine, 16 May 2025 The situation took off after reports surfaced last week suggesting the Greensboro lunch counter — a major symbol of the 1960 sit-ins — had been removed.—Melissa Noel, Essence, 28 Apr. 2025 Ultimately, every kind of restaurant — from fine-dining institutions to neighborhood lunch counters — is forced to layoff staff and hope there will be a restaurant to reopen later.—New York Times, 7 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for lunch counter
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