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Dolph Traymon, 97-year-old at the Keyboard
I cannot find anything to contradict this review from 2015 which had Dolph Traymon still tinkling the ivories at his Fife and Drum restaurant.
Source of 1948 ad.
Posted By: Paul - Sun Jun 19, 2016 -
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Category: Music, Restaurants, 1910s, Longevity
Mystery Illustration 21
What famous restaurant is depicted here?
The answer at this link.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 07, 2016 -
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Category: Restaurants, 1950s
Wendys, the Musical
A few months back I posted about McDonalds, the Musical. In a similar vein, here's Wendy's, the musical employee training video.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Oct 12, 2014 -
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Category: Restaurants, Video
Lion in Freezer
Posted By: Alex - Tue Sep 16, 2014 -
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Category: Food, Restaurants
Bite The Hand That Eats You
A chef was killed by a bite from the disembodied head of an Indonesian spitting cobra. He had decapitated it 20 minutes earlier in preparation of a local dish. They say not to bite the hand that feeds you, the hand that eats you is another thing apparently.
Posted By: Alex - Sun Aug 24, 2014 -
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Category: Death, Freaks, Oddities, Quirks of Nature, Restaurants, Screwups, Goofs and Screw-ups
Waitress There’s A Cockroach In My Salad
When a customer in a Chinese restaurant complained about a cockroach in his salad the waitress showed him it was safe to eat by eating it. Delightful!
Posted By: Alex - Wed Jul 16, 2014 -
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Category: Insects and Spiders, Restaurants
Hangman’s Tree Cafe
An article from the Reading Eagle (Oct 27, 1954) explains what this place was:
Jim Long, our Hollywood correspondent, has visited another unusual restaurant. This one was Hangman's Tree Cafe, "the rendezvous of those who enjoy lousy food." That isn't Jim's opinion. It says so on the menu which he sent us.
Many of the items on the menu carry special notations, to wit:
Top sirloin steak, $3.15. Not the usual "mule hide" but finest aged beef.
Chicken fry steak, $1.85. Oh, no, it ain't chicken; it's a beat up cow.
Lamb chops, $2.75. Mary lost it, we found it, you can have it.
Chef's salad, $1. Yeah, we know, every restaurant has a chef salad, but they ain't got our chef.
Caeser salad, 80 cents. The chef will hate you for ordering it, but go ahead and gamble.
On top of the wine list is this announcement: "Seasoning for the town's most tasteless food."
These additional notes are carried inside the menu:
"Don't be a glutton. Leave a little on the plate. Remember, all leftovers are used in our Sunday hash."
"Warning! Well done steaks at your own risk."
On the cover it says: "Lousy food. Warm beer and cocktails. Sneering service."
It's a really good place, Jim writes. But, it seems, everyone in California likes humor with their meals. They must have something to laugh at since the smog keeps the citizens rather gloomy.
Many of the items on the menu carry special notations, to wit:
Top sirloin steak, $3.15. Not the usual "mule hide" but finest aged beef.
Chicken fry steak, $1.85. Oh, no, it ain't chicken; it's a beat up cow.
Lamb chops, $2.75. Mary lost it, we found it, you can have it.
Chef's salad, $1. Yeah, we know, every restaurant has a chef salad, but they ain't got our chef.
Caeser salad, 80 cents. The chef will hate you for ordering it, but go ahead and gamble.
On top of the wine list is this announcement: "Seasoning for the town's most tasteless food."
These additional notes are carried inside the menu:
"Don't be a glutton. Leave a little on the plate. Remember, all leftovers are used in our Sunday hash."
"Warning! Well done steaks at your own risk."
On the cover it says: "Lousy food. Warm beer and cocktails. Sneering service."
It's a really good place, Jim writes. But, it seems, everyone in California likes humor with their meals. They must have something to laugh at since the smog keeps the citizens rather gloomy.
Posted By: Alex - Sat Dec 28, 2013 -
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Category: Restaurants, 1950s
The iTray
Waitering goes high-tech. Somehow I don't think this will be widely adopted.
Posted By: Alex - Mon Jun 10, 2013 -
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Category: Restaurants, Technology
Fine dining in a lavatory
London's Attendant Cafe, which opened last month, has a concept that it hopes will attract the curious. It's situated in a former public lavatory, and instead of trying to play that down, it's playing it up. So none of the old toilet fixtures have been removed. Instead, countertops were installed around them. Patrons can munch on "super gourmet sandwiches, salads, coffee and cakes" while perched in front of a urinal.The challenge for the restaurant will be to overcome what psychologists call the law of contagion. "Once in contact, always in contact." That is, once an object is associated with something offensive, such as a urinal being associated with urine, it will always maintain that association in our minds, no matter how clean the urinal is. [nydailynews]
Posted By: Alex - Tue Mar 05, 2013 -
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Category: Food, Hygiene, Body Fluids, Restaurants
Prince Ranjit, King of Curry
Even in this current age of celebrity chefs, no one has thought to impersonate a foreign Rajah in order to attract publicity for his restaurant, like "Prince Ranjit" did a century ago.
Full story here.
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Dec 07, 2012 -
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Category: Eccentrics, Food, Hoaxes and Imposters and Imitators, Restaurants, 1900s, India
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