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1891 Lincoln (Nebraska) Evening News 15 June Proprietor of a finely equipped restaurant and quick lunch house.

1893 Souvenir of N.Y.'s Liquor Interests 91 Standard Buffet's ‘Quick Lunch’, Samuel H. Barron, Sole Proprietor.

1903 N.Y. Evening Post 24 Sept. 8 The quick lunch man a few blocks away from the grocery store.

1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) xvi. 231 It's only when he scratches up a measly one-grain quick-lunch that he calls up the hens.

1911 E. M. Clowes On Wallaby iii. 51 The haste of the Fisher Government to do things lately moved Alfred Deakin to describe its proceedings as ‘quick-lunch legislation’.

1923 Janesville (Wisconsin) Daily Gaz. 21 Sept. 6/4 The average quick lunch patron saves a good five minutes by waiving mastication.

1927 Transition June 19 He ate his meals in a quick lunch near the office.

1947 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 17 May 14/1 On my last visit I noticed a quick-lunch bar called ‘Walden Breezes’ across the road from the immortal pond, although..no Thoreauburger appeared on the bill of fare.

1975 New Yorker 22 Sept. 96/3 Men whose money derives from, and whose deepest loyalties adhere to, insurance companies,..quick-lunch chains, and the like.

2004 Gastronomica Winter 70 Quick-lunch patrons were mostly adults, so these eating places had no need for the veneer of circus jollity that cloaks..today's fast-food outlets.