My last post about a restaurant designer who applied psychology to his work inspired me to look further into this subject. I discovered that when the restaurant world was experiencing hard times th…| Restaurant-ing through history
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I have to admit that I’ve never thought of restaurants as frightening. Nor would I find red restaurant decor soothing.| Restaurant-ing through history
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About the French influence on early American eating places for better off men.| Restaurant-ing through history
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It seems for decades patrons either loved eating popcorn at the movies or they intensely disliked hearing others crunching away. Is it still true?| 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
1 post published by Jan Whitaker during June 2025| Restaurant-ing through history
A longtime favorite in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Cafe Johnell won many prizes despite its distance from either coast.| Restaurant-ing through history
This past weekend at the giant Brimfield flea market I found the charming small menu shown above and below. The menu is for a tea house that operated seasonally from 1928 through 1940. I’m guessing it may date from the … Continue reading →| Restaurant-ing through history
Going out to a restaurant for Mother’s Day seems to have lost its popularity in recent years.| Restaurant-ing through history
Barney Josephson, jazz club and restaurant host/owner was ahead of his time in many ways with his Cafe Society and Cookeries.| Restaurant-ing through history
In the 19th century and much of the early 20th restaurant owners viewed women’s tastes as quite different than men’s. Women did not patronize restaurants to a great extent in the 19th century, but …| Restaurant-ing through history
In the 1950s Chicago restaurants were especially infested with mobsters who furnished “services” or else!| 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
