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Boulanger, 1765
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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History of restaurant service
Evolution of the style of service in restaurants -
Kitchen brigade system
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. -
Fine dining restaurant by La Grand Vefour (1869)
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 -
The beginning of Fast food (1954)
Raymond Albert Kroc was the pioneer of the fast food industry with his worldwide McDonald’s enterprise (1954) -
First drive-in restaurant
The Kirby's Pig Stand was the world's first drive-in, and they still sell their original Pig Sandwich. Mary Ann, a waitress, started here when she was 18 in 1967, and now owns The Pig Stand.