The London Restaurant, 1840-1914
Details:
- Author(s) Assael, Brenda
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 2018
- Pages 252pp
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Place Published Oxford
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly history of public eating in London. Considers restaurants as businesses and places of employment as well as having wider social functions. Deals with aspects such as expansion of commercial leisure, the increasing significance of the service sector, the introduction of technology, etc. Chapters include: 'Finding the restaurant'; 'Running the restaurant'; 'Waitiung in the restaurant'; 'Health and regulation in the restaurant'; 'Gastro-cosmopolitanism and the restaurant'; 'Dining in the restaurant'. Draws on experiences of J Lyons & Co Ltd and Spiers & Pond and other chain restaurants. Also touches, inter alia, on Holborn Restaurant; Gatti Brothers; Hotel Cecil; Savoy Theatre & Restaurant; etc