SCHRAFFTS RESTAURANT Dining Fork Ice Cream LUNCHEON COUNTER Candy Frank Shattuck

Description

SCHRAFFT'S RESTAURANT
Vintage Dining - Ice Cream Fountain Service - Luncheon Counter - Silverplate Fork
Schrafft's was the famous candy maker that also had restaurants mostly in NY
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Customer Dining Fork from the Schrafft's Restaurant dining room or ice cream fountain service lunch counter. Schrafft's also sold their famous candy, ice cream and gift baskets in their restaurants. On the front side of the handle is an "S" for Shrafft's and on the back side of the handle is the owner's name
Frank G. Shattuck Co. Nice collectible for your Schrafft's candy, ice cream parlor, restaurant ware collection.
This vintage silverplate fork measures 7.25" long. It is pre-owned and was really used so has signs of age and use, rub and scuff. No date but it must be from before the company was sold in the 1960's.
Here is background about this long gone popular business best known for their Schrafft's candy.
Schrafft's began as a candy manufacturer in Boston but over time the company became a well-known restaurant chain as well. In 1898 Frank G. Shattuck, a salesman for the Schrafft company from upstate New York, opened a candy store at Broadway and West 36
th
in Manhattan, NYC. Jane Shattuck, was largely responsible for the introduction of light lunches into the stores. The first to serve food was the Syracuse store in 1906. By 1909 Jane introduced meals to the second New York City Schrafft’s at 54 West 23
rd
Street in the heart of the Ladies’ Mile shopping district. By 1927 there were 25 units, mostly in New York.
Schrafft's was known for an air of gentility typical of the upper-middle-class home. Cooks, supervisors, and even some executives were women. Menus of the 1920s and 1930s included many salads, more desserts than entrees, and vegetable selections such as creamed cauliflower and fried eggplant.
Rent cuts in The Depression encouraged chain expansion, and by 1937 there were 43 Schrafft's, primarily in metropolitan New York City, but a few in Boston and Philadelphia. The 1939 WPA Guide to New York City said Schrafft’s had 38 locations in the metropolitan area, serving American home food. At its peak there were about 50 units in greater New York. In the late 1960’s the Schrafft's candy company was sold to Helme Products while Pet, Inc. took over the restaurants.
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