Importance of Lester's Grill

In "Just Enough for the City," Lester's Grill becomes the anonymous narrators lunch place after his favorite waitress in another restaurant is unfairly fired. Lester's Grill is run by a Chinese couple, precise Lester who cooks and lovely Doris who serves and sings along with Muzak. There, an insurance salesman eating beside the narrator claims the world is a mess because the "Big Boys" are mad and cause suffering to teach people there is no such thing as a free lunch. The narrator dismisses this as he does the proselytizing of the theists. During another lunchtime, the narrator sees a trio of gaudy and grotesque people served greasy meals, at which they gaze with love and bow their heads in unison. Fearing he feels the love he has been trying to understand, the narrator turns away.