Walking into this place for the first time, you are forced to stop and make sure you didn't just accidentally walk into a nursing home cafeteria. Little old ladies unite! Apparently this is where they all go for their mid-day meal. And it's a complete scene, picture grandma and her card-playing cronies hunched over at the counter slowly raising that shimmering spoonful of jello from the plate to her mouth. You got the Tic Toc Restaurant.
You may think that I'm saying it's a bad place. It certainly is not. You know, it's a Pittsburgh institution, been there for a million years, etc, etc. It's fairly typical diner fare with no real big surprises on the menu. Line cooks faithfully shovel it out while old people shovel it in day after day.
The wait staff is pleasant and the manager who mans the cash register is nice enough as well. They get you in and out quickly, and sometimes that's all you need.