Five Easy Pieces - Famous Scene

The movie's most famous scene takes place in a roadside restaurant (a Denny's, just south of Eugene, Oregon), where Bobby tries to get a waitress (Lorna Thayer) to bring him toast with his breakfast, which is not on the menu. Despite appeals to logic and common sense, the waitress adamantly sticks to the rules of the restaurant, so Bobby comes up with a plan of his own
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Classic scene. Such a good movie.

One of the deleted scenes in 'About Schmidt" (which Nicholson also plays in) shows him ordering the same breakfast, the woman saying "No substitutes" and Nicholson just calmly accepting it. Good little homage, but they decided to drop it because they didn't want the movie seeming too self-reflexive.

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