11.   The lunch hour crowd is thinning.

12.   The lunch crowd swept by him as he stood on the sunny corner of Liberty and Church Streets.

13.   The lunch crowd had arrived.

14.   The lunch crowd packed the classy Newport Beach-area restaurant.

15.   The size of the lunch crowd is a true test of whether times are tough or good, he said.

16.   Trendy restaurants like Peasant and Mercer Kitchen downtown have also suffered, while traffic in Midtown restaurants that support the business lunch crowd has been decimated.

17.   While still at the original Sonia Rose, he experimented with his own version for the lunch crowd.

18.   While the lunch crowd is mostly suit-and-tie, this streamlined bistro attracts a younger, cooler clientele after dark.

19.   He dishes out his home-cooked, Kosher-style sandwiches to a bustling lunch crowd in a trendy, fast growing section of Tampa.

20.   In Tulsa, Okla., the early lunch crowd at the Coney Island restaurant showed little enthusiasm.