Name: Schrafft's, New York 1920
Brand: martinafruit.com
SKU: 3498509679
Price: 25.00 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 4.4968 (27 reviews)

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Schrafft's, New York 1920Schraffts began life as a candy manufacturer and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. This 1920s menu cover, showing an elegantly clad waitress, perfectly illustrates the genteel image of the restaurants during the Roaring Twenties. In an

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