When Rav Nissan Alpert got his job at the White Shul in Far Rockaway, he was not able to find a place to live in far Rockaway for 3 years.
Because he had no place to stay he was forced to stay and eat at the Baal Habatim in the neighborhood. Sometimes the Baal Habatim were not up to his standards and he still ate there anyway.
As told by Hanoch Teller in a biography of Rav Nissim Alpert