Mr. Escalante: Can you sit with us?

Mr. Delgado: Sure. Uh, Anita, (would you) bring us a couple of beers please?

Mr. Escalante: You should get another waitress. Anna can be the first one in your family to graduate from high school, go to college.

Mr. Delgado: I thank you for your concern. Her mother works here, her sisters, her brothers. This is a family business. She's needed.

Mr. Escalante: She can help the family more by getting an education.

Mr. Delgado: Probably she'd get pregnant, she wouldn't finish college. Anita, go help your mom in the kitchen.

Mr. Escalante: She talks about going to medical school.

Mr. Delgado: No. I don't think so.

Mr. Escalante: She should make her own choices.

Mr. Delgado: Un momento. Yo soy el padre de la nina, no usted. (Just a minute. I'm the girl's father, not you.)

Mr. Escalante: She'll just get fat. She'll waste her life away in the restaurant. She's top kid.*

Mr. Delgado: I started washing dishes for a nickle* an hour . Now I own this place. Did I waste my life?

Mr. Escalante: I washed dishes too when I came to this country.

Mr. Delgado: Good. Then why don't you put on an apron and give us a hand. Your husband comes into my restaurant, eats, and then he insults me.

Fabiola: Excuse my husband, Mr. Delgado. He just wants what's best for Anna.

Mr. Escalante: She could go to college, come back, and teach you how to run the place.

Mr. Delgado: Professor. I don't want your money. I don't need your business.

Mr. Escalante: Keep it. (It's a) tip.**

Notes:

She's top kid = she's the best student in the class

a nickle = 5 cents

(It's a) tip : Tips are usually kept by the waitress, so he is leaving the money for Anna