I am republishing this post that I originally presented ten years ago, because of the September 4 death of Joseph McNeil, age 83. The Greensboro lunch counter has been on exhibit at the Smithsonian…| Restaurant-ing through history
In a sense Colosimo’s restaurant in Chicago could be called a theme restaurant. It’s theme was its association with crime and gangsters.| Restaurant-ing through history
It was an orphaned family that had gone through some difficult times that developed one of the early, very successful chains of cafeterias in California. The chain of Boos Brothers cafeterias was o…| Restaurant-ing through history
To gather recipes for the Sardi’s cookbook Curtain Up at Sardi’s [1957], co-author Helen Bryson spent two and half weeks, six days each week, in Sardi’s restaurant kitchen. She asked a lot of quest…| Restaurant-ing through history
Rarely is the word fantastical used to modify the word cafeteria. Nor are restaurant proprietors usually thought of as powerful vice crusaders. [cover, 1940s booklet; below Pacific Seas] A major ex…| Restaurant-ing through history
