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Show Roman Innkeeper Started First Restaurant For much of the younger generation, McDonalds or the Colonel have been around foe as long as they can remember. Television has burned into everyones mind that eating out or bringing it in is the thing to do. Statistics show that Americans eat one of every three meals out. But where did it all start? The honor for creating the first businessmen's lunch" apparently belongs to a chap named Segius Locates, a Roman innkeeper in 40 B.C. He devised the feature for ship brokers who were too busy to go home. Some authorities claim that the medieval history of the restaurant industry began during the French Revolution, in 1789, when hiding aristocrats were fed in secret by their servants. These rendezvous became known to other aristocrats who were willing to pay a small charge for well cooked meals. In ancient times, there were places for public eating roughly similar to our restaurants. Before the dawn of civilization, when people began making their homes in one place and occasionally traveling away from home - as distinguished from nomads who had no real homes - they needed a place to eat and sleep enroute. Thus early restaurants were usually in conjunction with sleeping accomodations. Inns, hotels and monasteries of Europe served this function up to the 17th century and todays restaurant is really an outgrowth of these. Its development as a separate institution came later. One of the earliest restaurants was the Tabard Inn in London where, in the 14th century, Chaucers Canterbury pilgrims used to gather prior to their journeys to the shrine of St. Thomas a Becket, to dine and revel. They also held dinners there after they returned, at which time the best teller of stories during the pilgrimage was rewarded with a free meal and feted. This was the idea of the inn host, Harry Bailey, who went along on the trips to judge the best tales. In England, commoners had patronized eating places called ordinary as far back as 1577. These were taverns which served only at specified mealtimes usually between one and four oclock at a long, common table and at a fixed price. Diners couldnt come in any time and sit any place, then choose from a vast menu. When coffee was introduced to Europe, the restaurant function was taken over by coffee houses which were popular in England from the 17th century on. In France, the cafe (coffee) arose. The first English coffee house was in St. Michaels Alley, Comhill, owned by a Greek named Pasqua Rosee who was the first to teach the method of roasting coffee and to introduce it in England. The first public eating place to be designated as a restaurant was opened in Paris in 1765. It was called Le Champ d'Oiseau and its proprietor was a gentleman called Boulanger. Over the doorway was a Latin inscription: Venite ad me omnes qui stomacho laboratis et ego restaurabo vos Come to me all whose stomachs cry out in anguish and I shall restore you. But it was not until the beginning of the 1800s that the English borrowed the restaurant habit from their French neighbors. In England, the term restaurant implied a lofty establishment where the titled Englishman might entertain at a glittering supper after the theatre. But, by the latter part of the century, the d restaurant phrase, popular, appeared often and it indicated that restaurants now catered to the working and middle classes as well as the aristocracy. The concept of the grill room in England was supposedly credited to the traveling Americans who didnt want to dress for dinner. Hence, in the 1860s, the first grill was opened in London. It made no restrictions as to dress, offered fine atmosphere and good food. In the United States, earliest restaurants were patterned after their English and continental counterparts - wayside inns, coffee houses and taverns during the colonial period. Some of the better known were the Blue Anchor Tavern in Philadelphia, opened in 1683; Ye Coffee House, also in Philadelphia, 1700, and Ye Crown Coffee House of Boston, 1711. In the 19th century, a new wealthy class arose and elaborate restaurants and dining rooms in better hotels gradually came to be. The leisure class began to consider dining in pleasant surroundings away from home the thing to do and thus, the era of famous caterers, restaurateurs and chefs began. The first restaurant proper was which opened in lower New York in 1827. Lorenzo Delmonico, who came from Switzerland to join the confectionery business in New York, suggested to his firm that they open a restaurant to serve food in the European style. This marked the beginning of a trend toward lavish restaurants which flourished in major cities, coast to coast, until the end of the Gay Nineties. It took a revolution to bring restaurants within the financial reach of pll. In this case, it was the industrial revolution which began in the 1880s, sending increasing numbers of men and women into factories and offices. They had to be fed quickly and inexpensively. To meet this need, the first cafeteria was opened in low-price- a 17, . . sf self-servi- industry is the Today, the largest retail employer in the United States, currently employing over eight million men and women, both full and part time, in more establishments than any other retail business in America. food-servi- After World War I, the increase in number of restaurants was partly due to growth in automobiles. Roadside eating places grew up. In cities, eating places were developed to serve factory and business people who couldnt go home for lunch. The need to feed many people in a short time spurred developmnent of special restaurant techniques. In the 1940s, World War II reached the shores of the United States. The shortages of equipment and foods, the lack of Approximately 500,000 existing units ensure that Americans can find and enjoy a meal away from home during the day or night. food-servi- Today one of every three dollars spent for food is spent for food away from home. Only 4 Lots Left And 4 Homes. Subordination Available (Uinhndk Overlooking Willow Creek Live at Salt Lakes most beautiful address for only $57,800 At this price, in this location, these homes will sell quickly, and when they're gone, there will be no more. Drive out soon. For a home, an address, a lifestyle that is exclusively yours, visit Finlandia. Take 7800 South to 2885 East, then turn right on Danish Hills Road to the Finlandia sign. Enter Finlandia WwfoUMVl through Scandia Village another development by Ip fn) LiUzP Turn your fireplace into a heating system. with the employees, the overnight rise in patronthese are just a few of the problems age which beset the restaurant industry during those hectic days. At the close of World War II, many changes occurred. The industry reached new highs in everything. In a three year period, 75,000 new businesses were bom. New York in 1885, and was soon followed by others in Chicago and the West. The overwhelming success of the e cafeteria idea pointed out the meals. nationwide demand for low-coNotable in its development was the John R. Thompson Company, Chicago, which establishment opened a small in that city in 1891. w . 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