The Pilot (Friends) successfully brings up the idea to Rachel of asking her out sometime, and later confesses to Monica about the potential relationship. In the final scene, the entire group are in Central Perk having coffee with Rachel, who begins a new career as a coffee shop waitress. Creators and writers David Crane and Marta Kauffman were known in the television industry for writing the cable television series "Dream On". A second series by the duo, "Family Album", had premiered on CBS in the Fall 1993 season but was cancelled after airing six episodes. In November 1993, they began developing three new
Lake McDonald Lodge Coffee Shop each. These plans were scaled back, and were further reduced after the Great Northern Railway, which at the time owned the Glacier Park Company, objected to the plans as too costly. The Great Northern sold their Glacier Park operations to Glacier Park, Inc., operated by Don Hummell. By 1963 plans had been reduced to the construction of a "grill" at the site. The Lake McDonald Coffee Shop was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 14, 2008, before the usual 50-year anniversary requirement for NRHP properties, in recognition of its status as an exceptional example of Mission