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- As an innovative restaurateur and marketer, Fred Harvey is credited with creating the first restaurant chain in the United States. He was also a leader in promoting tourism in the American Southwest in the late 19th century.
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Frederick Henry Harvey (June 27, 1835 – February 9, 1901) was an entrepreneur who developed the Harvey House lunch rooms, restaurants, souvenir shops, and hotels, which served rail passengers on the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway, the Gulf Colorado and Santa Fe Railway, the Kansas Pacific Railway, the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway ...
The Fred Harvey Company was the owner of the Harvey House chain of restaurants, hotels and other hospitality industry businesses alongside railroads in the Western United States. It was founded in 1876 by Fred Harvey to cater to the growing number of train passengers.
Fred Harvey was largely responsible for the creation of the Grand Canyon as the country’s premier natural tourist attraction, as well as the development of the mythic Southwest and what grew into the National Park System.
Fred Harvey (born 1835, London, Eng.—died Feb. 9, 1901, Leavenworth, Kan., U.S.) was an American restaurateur, who operated a chain of restaurants along the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, each called the Harvey House and often staffed by “Harvey Girls.”
Despite a brief surge in business during World War II, as hundreds of thousands of soldiers headed west for training, the Harvey House rapidly turned into a relic from a bygone era. By 1963, Harvey's business was shuttered, but the legacy of the man who civilized the west lives on.
In the late 1800s passenger service improved as entrepreneur Fred Harvey introduced an unprecedented level of amenities and service in his Harvey Houses across the southwest United States.
Aug 17, 2023 · Harvey managed what was nearly impossible in the late 1800s — uniting a region of the widespread U.S. Here is the untold story of the man who emigrated to America and wound up capturing the soul of the Southwest with good food and hospitality.
