Schrafft's Manhattan Skyline New York Panorama, 1939 Wheeler The finely clothed French gentleman

The finely clothed French gentleman on the right asks his companion

just 19 years old

a spontaneous

the chain closed in the 1970s

Many oyster companies never reopen

Schrafft's Manhattan Skyline New York Panorama, 1939 Wheeler The finely clothed French gentlemanSchraffts began life as a candy manufacturer in Boston and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. In an interview with the New York Times in 2004, Mr Shattucks great grandson Frank said of the restaurants refined clientele: Everyone wore