hotel restaurants were considered fashionable and exclusive places for the wealthy and powerful to eat and were often designed
the imposing Commodore Hotel offered food and lodgings to the thousands of people who flocked by train through Grand Central Station to make their marks on New York City
but it would have been a good way to grab people’s attention since eating fried chicken wasn’t particularly common during this era
The Liberty Café was said to be one of the best places to eat on Route 66
The 1940s and 1950s saw the Art Deco styled New Yorker at the peak of its popularity and it was widely regarded as one of New York's most fashionable hotels
Roberts Brothers, Los Angeles 1930s Coasters hotel restaurants were considered fashionableFrom History. com: "A Dallas entrepreneur named Jessie G. Kirby built the first Pig Stand along the Dallas Fort Worth Highway in October 1921. It was a roadside barbecue restaurant unlike any other: Its patrons could drive up, eat and leave, all without budging from their automobiles. (People with cars are so lazy, Kirby explained, they dont want to get out of them.) Kirby lured these car attached customers with great fanfare and spectacle. When a