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The snack was invented
A customer at a restaurant complained about how thick her fries were so George crum the chef and creator of the chips had made the customer new ones that were super thin and fried too long causing the first ever chip to be created -
George crumb opened his own luxury restaurant
Crum opened a new restaurant called "Crum's House". At this fine eatery you would find a bowl of potato chips on every table that had reservations something like modern day Mexican restaurants do. This new invention took the world by storm and Crum's House catered to many rich places within a couple years. -
crum restaurant closes
the restaurant had closed by this time for an unknown reason or at least non documented reason -
chips sold in stores
William Tappendon realized potato chip needed to be sold at grocery stores.So what William did was he made chips in his own kitchen and delivered them to the neighborhood -
George Crum death
George crum had died at the age of 92 -
mechanical peeler
mechanical peelers for fruits and vegetables were invented making chips being able to be sold everywhere and top selling item on the market -
lays company started
Herman Lay was the creator of the Lays company. Lays potato chips were just one of the potato chip factories. However Lays was the first majorly successful factory for chips so This brand helped the potato chip spread from coast to coast. -
flavored chips
Lays created the first flavored chips that did not need to be salted like beforehand and they made the flavor of cheese and onion along with salt and vinegar -
money started rolling in
In 2003 the potato chip was officially in the popular group of foods and over six billion dollars were spent a year on potato chips. the business it created, created 65,00 jobs needed which helped job unemployment in a positive way.