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1. www.mentalfloss.com › article › 648117A Brief History of Restaurant Menus - Mental Floss

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   Oct 21, 2022 · From the Song dynasty in China to the first inns and taverns of France, the path toward the humble menu is a long and winding journey.

   • Author: Michele Debczak

2. www.mentalfloss.com › posts › history-of-dinersThe Delicious History of the Diner - Mental Floss

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   Jun 21, 2023 · Diners Today. But where did these restaurants made of chrome and neon originate? Here’s the history of diner dining, from their Lunch Wagon ancestors to those “We Are Happy to Serve You”...

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3. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › DinerDiner - Wikipedia

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   A crude precursor of the diner was created in 1872 by Walter Scott, who sold food out of a horse-pulled wagon to employees of the Providence Journal, in Providence, Rhode Island. Scott's diner can be considered the first diner with walk-up service, as it had windows on each side of the wagon.

4. restaurant-ingthroughhistory.com › 2019/07/08from side dish to main dish - Restaurant-ing through history

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   Jul 8, 2019 · One is from the men’s dining room in 1841 and the other from the women’s dining room in 1845. The menu used in the men’s dining room has the following headings: Soup, Fish, Boiled, Entrees, Roast, Pastry, and Dessert. Under Entrees are 17 dishes, all in French, while the rest of the menu is in English.

5. www.thetakeout.com › these-historical-menus-showThese Historical Menus Show How Drastically The Way We Eat ...

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   Mar 2, 2018 · What's really impressive about the initiative—called "What's on the menu?"—is that from NYPL's robust initial goal of transcribing and digitizing 9,000 menus, there's now 45,000 menus in the database from across the globe, dating as far back as the 1840s.

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7. www.epicurious.com › expert-advice › history-of-theThe History of American Diners from Michael Stern - Epicurious

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   Jun 29, 2016 · Named in the 1920s after their resemblance to railroad dining cars, diners began to develop a reputation as decent places where an average Joe could find a meat-and-potatoes square meal at a...

8. www.britannica.com › topic › restaurantRestaurant | Description, History, Types, & Purpose | Britannica

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   The public dining room that came to be known as the restaurant originated in France, and the French have continued to make major contributions to the restaurant’s development. Learn about the history and types of restaurants.

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   What is the history of Diner dining?

   • Here’s the history of diner dining, from their Lunch Wagon ancestors to those “We Are Happy to Serve You” take-out cups, adapted from an episode of Food History on YouTube. Diners began as mobile food wagons that would come out at night to serve simple meals to workers on the third shift. They were literal wagons—carts pulled by horses.

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   Where did a restaurant come from?

   • The public dining room that ultimately came to be known as the restaurant originated in France, and the French have continued to make major contributions to the restaurant’s development. A look at France's historic restaurant culture and what sets its cuisine apart from the rest of the world Learn more about restaurants in France.

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   What is a diner restaurant?

   • The term diner technically referred to factory-built, prefabbed restaurants from dining cars that were shipped to a location. In modern America, of course, coffee shop has taken on a different meaning—generally applying to something like a Starbucks—and diner has become the catch-all name for these family-owned, often round-the-clock restaurants.

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   When did modern restaurants start?

   • The first people to use menus in something more like the modern sense may have been the Chinese. During the Song Dynasty around 1100 CE, the first businesses resembling modern restaurants appeared in urban centers like Kaifeng and Hangzhou.

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   When did the Empire Diner start?

   • In 1976, the Empire Diner opened in what used to be the funky old Manhattan Diner on 10th Avenue in New York, pioneering an "upgraded" diner concept and offering candlelight, wine list, and an inventive menu. In San Francisco in 1985, the Fog City Diner made its debut just off the Embarcadero.

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   How were Diners made in the 1920s?

   • Many early diners were made from beat-up and abandoned trolley cars, and their reputations were just as battered. But in the 1920's, a manufacturer named Patrick J. "Pop" Tierney improved diners' social standing by building them from scratch rather than from decrepit trolleys.

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