Restaurant-ing through history

People who eat in restaurants and walk out without paying come in all varieties, though it would seem they are more likely to be men than women.

Eating places for hippies could be found in cities across the country beginning in 1968.

Chrome is the postcard collector’s name for cards that look like glossy color photographs but are printed on ordinary lightweight card stock.

Photo postcards, known as “real photos” by collectors, are premium collectibles because of the details that seem clearer than on many other postcards.

Harland Sanders is so closely associated with Kentucky Fried Chicken as “Colonel Sanders” that his early career as a restaurant owner has been largely eclipsed.

The following are questions from restaurant operators, consultants, journalists, and consumers about restaurants generally, dating from 1900 into the early 2000s.

I was hoping that people sending postcards of restaurants would have mentioned the food they ate in those places.

When I began this blog I was inspired by my vintage postcard collection.

I was looking through my collection of restaurant menus, when I spotted the Cow Shed and remembered that I had always wondered about that name.

Were 19th century European visitors to the United States inclined to be super critical about the food they ate in restaurants and hotels?

The Marston family ruled their restaurant kingdom in Boston for a very long time, just short of 80 years.

During the growth of Harlem as an entertainment district, known mainly for its jazz and night clubs of the 1920s and early 1930s, the Black-occupied part of New York City, with a population nearing 200,000, was also home to a number of tea rooms.

I’ve been exploring my postcard and ephemera collection and picking out favorites to see what I can find out about them.