Alice (LINDA LAVIN) is moonlighting as a singer while Mel (VIC TAYBACK) is irate at her tardiness caused by lack of sleep.
Belle (DIANE LADD) decides to take over Alice (LINDA LAVIN) and Vera's (BETH HOWLAND) boyfriends and the running of the diner, but all her plans backfire.
When Mel (VIC TAYBACK) installs a time clock in the diner, he learns that time is money.
Until her friends tearfully tell her to go, Flo (POLLY HOLLIDAY) has mixed emotions about accepting a fantastic job in another city.
Alice (LINDA LAVIN) tries to save Mel's (VIC TAYBACK) "on-again-off-again" romance with Marie (VICTORIA CARROLL) but to no avail.