(Benjie Sanders/AP) In this Feb. 26, 2010 file photo, Joyce Smith, a server, has a platter full of food loaded up that she is carrying out of the kitchen and is taking it out to serve her customers at the Vail Steak House, in Vail, Ariz. It took more than a year, but American diners are coming out of hiding, starting to splurge on everything from tea to tacos and tacking on some dessert.
