Philadelphia Best

Facts : 1 Inspired by Max Sielaff s AUTOMAT Restaurants in Berlin, they became among the first 47 restaurants, and the first non-Europeans to receive patented vending machines from Max Sielaff s AUTOMAT GmbH Berlin factory, creators of the first chocolate bar vending machine
Facts : 2 was opened June 12, 1902, at 818 Chestnut St in Philadelphia by Horn & Hardart
Facts : 3 Later that week, another opened at Broadway and East 14th Street, near Union Square
Facts : 4 In 1924, Horn & Hardart opened retail stores to sell prepackaged automat favorites
Facts : 5 Using the advertising slogan Less Work for Mother, the company popularized the notion of easily served take-out food as an equivalent to home-cooked meals
Facts : 6 The Horn & Hardart Automats were particularly popular during the Depression era when their macaroni and cheese, baked beans and creamed spinach were staple offerings
Facts : 7 In the 1930s, union conflicts resulted in vandalism, as noted by Christopher Gray in The New York Times: In 1932 the police blamed members of the glaziers union for vandalism against 24 Horn & Hardart and Bickford s restaurants in Manhattan, including the one at 488 Eighth Avenue
Facts : 8 Witnesses said that a passenger in a car driving by used a slingshot to damage and even break the plate glass show windows
Facts : 9 Glaziers union representatives had complained about nonunion employees installing glass at the restaurants
Facts : 10 By the time of Horn s death in 1941, the business had 157 retail shops and restaurants in the Philadelphia and New York areas and served 500,000 patrons a day
Facts : 11 During the 1940s and the 1950s, more than 50 New York Horn & Hardart restaurants served 350,000 customers a day
Facts : 12 The New York company was named the Horn & Hardart Company, while the Philadelphia company was named the Horn & Hardart Baking Company
Facts : 13 New York was traded on the American Stock Exchange and Philadelphia was traded on the Philadelphia Stock Exchange

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