Flo takes the wheel herself when she learns that her trucker beau has a female partner.

Mel hires Belle, a Mississippi belle who rings Mel's chimes as ""one of the best waitresses I've ever had."" However, Belle is now aiming for lusher pastures as a country-music writer.

Heartbroken over her boy friend's sudden lack of attention, Vera begs Belle to transform her into a sex goddess.

Mel is receptive to an infatuated tour guide, as long as she keeps steering tourists into his diner.

An automated bank teller accidentally spews out $24,675 to an astonished but delighted Mel.

Mel may get his diner back if Belle can get Robert Goulet to perform for a Las Vegas casino owner but when it seems she can't get him, Alice steps in and impersonates him.

Against Alce's expressed wishes, Mel secretly teaches Tommy how to take care of a school bully.

Vera goes out on a limb to save a century old tree in front of the diner from being cut down for a road-widening project.

A trucker chooses Mel's Diner as the place to tell her amorous driving partner to hit the road.

It's Alice's 40th birthday, and for the milestone she gets a millstone, a visit from her meddling mother.

Smooth operator Mel teaches his shy cousin, Wendell, how to score with Vera.

The ghost of a partner past gives Mel the dickens on Christmas Eve after Mel fired Alice, Jolene and Vera.

A book on building self-confidence inspires Vera to become ""the best little waitress in the world!"" Later, Mel leaves a newly confident Vera in charge of the diner.

Mel considers getting a nose job while undergoing surgery for a deviated septum.

A jilted acquaintance flips for Alice on the first bounce and when she doesn't reciprocate his feelings he threatens to jump from the Mel's Diner sign.

In role reversals, Mel becomes an employee by accepting an executive position with a catering firm, and the waitresses become owners by buying his diner.

To steal a competitor's secret sauce recipe, Mel persuades his cousin to pose as a woman and apply for a job as a Burger Baby.

Everyone's up in the air over Jolene's maiden flight as a part-time stewardess.

At Elliot's suggestion and lured by a $5000 reward, Mel goes undercover to smoke out rustlers selling stolen beef.

Vera's secretly moonlighting as a sultry deejay called Nightbird and she's turning on all the males in Phoenix in the process.

Mel is a taskmaster in training Jolene for tryouts with a pro basketball team.