Description: After her husband Donald is killed in a trucking accident, Alice Spivak Hyat and her young son Tommy head from their New Jersey home to Los Angeles so Alice can pursue a singing career. Her car breaks down in Phoenix, and viewers meet her soon after she has taken a job as a waitress at Mel's Diner. Alice works alongside Mel Sharples, the owner and cook of the greasy spoon, and fellow waitresses and friends, sassy, man-hungry Florence Jean "Flo" Castleberry, and neurotic, scatterbrained Vera Louise Gorman.
