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Customers were served family style and ate at communal tables. Boulanger's contribution to the food service industy was to serve a variety of foods prepared on premises to customers whose primary interest was dining.
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Evolution of the styles of service in restaurants
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Escoffier’s contributions to cooking was to elevate it to the status of a respected profession, and to introduce discipline and sobriety where the brigade system, with each section run by a chef de partie.
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The modern formal style of dining, where customers are given a plate with the food already arranged on it, is known as Service a la russe, as it is said it have been introduced by French by the Russian Prince Kurakin in the 1810s.
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Raymond Albert Kroc was the pioneer of the fast food industry with his worldwide McDonald’s enterprise (1954).
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The Kirby's Pig stand was the world's first drive in and they still sell their original pig stand sandwich. Mary Ann , a waitress started when she was 18 in 1967, and now owns the Pig stand.
