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People in the Middle Ages had huge feasts with one purpose: to eat.
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Marco Polo brought spices all of the world to place where they could not be grown.
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Haute cuisine was created.
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Catherine de Medici brought the fork to France.
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Boston and New York became major centers of trade. In 1634, an inn in Boston called Cole’s offered food and lodging to travelers.
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The first coffee house was opened in Oxford, England.
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Boulanger began serving hot soups called restaurers
(meaning restoratives) for their health-restoring properties. He called his café a restorante, the origin of our modern word restaurant. -
The City Hotel in New York City opened, the first building in the United States designed specifically as a hotel.
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With the invention of the railroad in 1825, inns, taverns, and foodservice facilities located near railway stations began
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the cafeteria was invented
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The first White Castle restaurant opened in 1921 in Wichita, Kansas, serving food that could be prepared and eaten quickly. This was the birth of the fast-food operation, or quick-service restaurant.
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Roy Allen and Frank Wright begin selling rights allowing people to sell their root beer (A&W), creating the fi rst franchise company.
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Zev Siegel, Jerry Baldwin, and Gordon Bowker open Starbucks
in Seattle, Washington. Starbucks has grown to the largest coffeehouse company in the world, with more than 1 6,000 stores in 49 countries. -
Ruth Fretel opens a second Ruth’s Chris Steak House, starting one of the first national fine-dining chains.
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The Food Network was launched