VINTAGE \"PROPERTY OF HORN & HARDART CO\" SPOON B187 for Sale

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VINTAGE \"PROPERTY OF HORN & HARDART CO\" SPOON B187 For Sale

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VINTAGE \"PROPERTY OF HORN & HARDART CO\" SPOON B187:
$34.00

VINTAGE \"PROPERTY OF HORN & HARDART CO\" SPOON
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From Wikipedia:Horn & Hardartwas afood servicescompany in the United States noted for operating the first food serviceautomatsinPhiladelphia,New York City, andBaltimore.

Philadelphia\'s Joseph Horn (1861–1941) and German-born,New Orleans-raisedFrank Hardart(1850–1918) opened their first restaurant in Philadelphia, on December 22, 1888. The 11-by-17-foot (3.4m ×5.2m) lunchroom at 39 South Thirteenth Street had no tables, only a counter with 15 stools. The location was formerly the print shop of Dunlap & Claypoole, printers to the American Congress and George Washington.

By introducing Philadelphia to New-Orleans style coffeewhich Hardart promoted as their \"gilt-edge\" brew, they made their tiny luncheonette a local attraction. News of the coffee spread, and the business flourished. They incorporated as the Horn & Hardart Baking Company in 1898.

At its peak the company operated in excess of 100 restaurants, as well as a popular chain of retail outlets. The lack of a succession plan, changing demographics, the rapid rise of fast food chains, and poor strategic decisions from the early 1960s on were too much to overcome and the last restaurant was closed in 1991.