Appetite for America

Posted on 14 August 2018 by Stephen Fried

New Fast shipping Best Download Appetite for America author Stephen Fried For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr I was raving about this book in my knitting group and wondering aloud why I d never heard of Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls, when Jerri said, Well, Dana, you were born in Alaska and Fred never made it this far north Jerri, born in New Mexico, knew all about Fred Harvey.I didn t and this book was a revelation Fred Harvey, born in England, emigrated to the US at exactly the right time, when railroads were expanding all across the American West He went into partnership with the Atchison, Top I was raving about this book in my knitting group and wondering aloud why I d never heard of Fred Harvey and the Harvey Girls, when Jerri said, Well, Dana, you were born in Alaska and Fred never made it this far north Jerri, born in New Mexico, knew all about Fred Harvey.I didn t and this book was a revelation Fred Harvey, born in England, emigrated to the US at exactly the right time, when railroads were expanding all across the American West He went into partnership with the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad, back when railroads had to make frequent stops to take on fuel for both engine and passengers Wherever that was Harvey built restaurants, quality restaurants with quality service Fred would travel anonymously up and down the high iron main railroad lines and walk unannounced into the restaurants before the rest of the train s passe...This is a great story, well worth the read, and for me, postive re enforcement of my family s place in the history of the WEst My dad worked for Santa Fe for 48 years My mother s brother ended his worklife working for the Santa Fe My cousins uncle ran a Santa Fe section gang out of a converted Pullman off a sidetrack in Bernallio, New Mexico My birthplace and hometown, both of my sisters birthplaces, my hometown, my father and my mother s birthplace and home town are in this book My grandm This is a great story, well worth the read, and for me, postive re enforcement of my family s place in the history of the WEst My dad worked for Santa Fe for 48 years My mother s brother ended his worklife working for the Santa Fe My cousins uncle ran...A truly awesome story of an American family business that feels like the Forrest Gump of the 1850s 1940s I had never heard of Fred Harvey, but the story of the business expansion across the Midwest and southwest, as well as its intersection with the railroads and the early days of aviation were fascinating Given that I do not typically read hard history books, this book was nonetheless a great tale that was chock full of historical facts and impact of the expansion of America and what was go A truly awesome story o...Appetite For America is that rare book that combines the best of a history book and a business book It s the story of Fred Harvey, a sickly but iron willed Englishman who built the first retail empire in America, and the story of the company he founded, also called Fred Harvey not Fred Harvey, Inc just plain Fred Harvey It s all fascinating, and offers the reader many accurate business insights as well although they are not billed as business insights this is not a navel gazing self help Appetite For America is that rare book that combines the best of a history book and a business book It s the story of Fred Harvey, a sickly but iron willed Englishman who built the first retail empire in America, and the story of the company he founded, also called Fred Harvey not Fred Harvey, Inc just plain Fred Harvey It s all fascinating, and offers the reader many accurate business insights as well although they are not billed as business insights this is not a navel gazing self help business book.Fred Harvey arrived in New York in 1853, seeking his fortune, starting as a dishwasher at a New York restaurant He quickly moved to St Louis, in many ways then the epicenter of development in the country, running a restaurant with a partner, but the Civil War and a lazy and thieving partner, the bane of many a businessman killed his business He then worked in postal sorting, in the new method of sorting on moving rail cars, then became a ticket agent for a Missouri ra...I had this book on my list to read for a long time My public library did not have it but my college work library did and I am so glad they did What a great read After reading this book, I am surprised I had not heard of Fred Harvey His influence spanned 50 years of American history as well as a large geographic area It was entertaining to read about this time in history including the heyday of the railroad and Western expansion I have also visited lots of places Harvey influenced includin I had this book on my list to read for a long time My public library did not have it but my college work library did and I am so glad they did What a great read After reading this book, I am surprised I had not heard of Fred Harvey His influence spanned 50 years of American history as well as a large geographic area It was entertaining to read about this time in history including the heyday of the railroad and Western expansion I have also visited lot...Lost highwaysFried mines a fascinating piece of lost American history in this study of Fred Harvey and his company Fred Harvey was born in England in 1835, but, like a character from a Dickens novel his father was legally declared a pauper, and came to America with his family in 1853 to escape London s dirty streets Fred found his adopted home in Kansas a friendly place to grow, and its burgeoning railroad industry a great partner to grow with as he built a string of restaurants, lunch counter Lost highwaysFried mines a fascinating piece of lost American history in this study of Fred Harvey and his company Fred Harvey was born in England in 1835, but, like a character from a Dickens novel his father was legally declared a pauper, and came to America with his family in 1853 to escape London s dirty streets Fred found his adopted home in Kansas a friendly place to grow, and its burgeoning railroad industry a great partner to grow with as he built a string of restaurants, lunch counters, newsstands, and hotels along the railroad lines of the Midwest and Southwest from Kansas to California.Along the way, as Fried documents, Harvey accomplishedthan personal financial success He provided a model for delivering quality food service at affordable prices, and established patterns of standardization and franchising that enabled roadside service Howard Johnson s and fast food McDonald s to flourish in the next century He raised culinary standards with fresh ingredients prepar...I am old enough to remember the last gasp of Fred Harvey s hospitality empire in Chicago Whenever we would pick up relatives at either the Dearborn or Union station, we would always go to the big Fred Harvey restaurants there before we went home Later as the Interstate highway system began to criss cross the state, the company ran the restaurants that were located in the oases that crossed the tollways And in the 1950 s I rode the Santa Fe Super Chief with my grandparents out to Los Angeles a I am old enough to remember the last gasp of Fred Harvey s hospitality empire in Chicago Whenever we would pick up relatives at either the Dearborn or Union station, we would always go to the big Fred Harvey restaurants there before we went home Later as the Interstate highway system began to criss cross the state, the company ran the restaurants that were located in the oases that crossed the tollways And in th...An exhaustive biography of entrepreneur, restaurateur and hotelier Fred Harvey and his descendants, who developed a chain of reliable hostelries a generation or two before Howard Johnson fried his first clam Like HoJo s, Fred Harvey restaurants became beloved because they offered predictable, comfortable dining experience to the traveler in the still rudimentary southwestern United States This is a history of a business in symbiotic relationship with the expansion of railroads and the formatio An exhaustive biography of entrepreneur, restaurateur and hotelier Fred Harvey and his descendants, who developed a chain of reliable hostelries a generation or two before Howard Johnson fried his first clam Like HoJo s, Fred Harvey restaurants became beloved because they offered predictable, comfortable dining experience to the traveler in the still rudimentary southwestern United States This is a history of a business in symbiotic relationship with the expansion of railroads and the formation of new communities in the West The company s success was a product of its customer fo...Another book auditioning for the World of Food Syllabus Entrepreneur Fred Harvey linked himself to the Santa Fe railway to launch America s first successful restaurant chain, in the process changing the demographics of the southwest by importing single waitresses, adopting cutting edge for the 1880s food safety policies, spreading regional and European cooking to the whole country, inventing gift shops, using the gift shops to launch Native American tourism and crafts, setting the script and Another book auditioning for the World of Food Syllabus Entrepreneur Fred Harvey linked himself ...What a fascinating story of the guy who invented fast food, chain hotels and restaurants, and opened up the wonders of train travel and the Southwest Great social, historical, and cultural details engaging anecdotal style wonderful family and business saga

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14 August 2018

Stephen Fried