A steady stream of customers stops off briefly at Uncle Will's Pancake House all morning, to put their names on the waiting list.
Children can and do request the company of the ceramic pig for breakfast.
The overflow crowd sits on benches in front, and others go next door to the Atlantic Book Store at 5 Bay Ave. As quickly as one group leaves the restaurant, another fills the void. As the pecking order proceeds, two women strut out onto the sidewalk, call a name, and if they hear no answer, go next door. When Mary and two friends respond from the back of the bookstore, Haines walks back to the restaurant and the process begins again. Haines and Shirley Lamson, Beach Haven, never stop moving from 7 a.m. until closing time at 1 p.m.