The diner in the painting is based on a real location in Greenwich Village, but was chosen in part because diners were anonymous slices of Americana, meaning that the scene could have been taken from any city in the country-and also because a diner was a place to which isolated individuals, awake long after bedtime, would naturally be drawn.
Dineren på billedet er placeret i Greenwich Village, men blev valgt som motiv bl.a. fordi dinere var et anonymt stykke americana, hvorfor scenen kunne være taget fra en hvilken som helst by USA, og fordi dineren var et sted, hvor isolerede individer, der var vågne efter midnat kunne søge hen.