Restaurants Then and Fast Food Now

This menu from the Plaza Hotel in New York dates from 1900. It illustrates the inflation that the Federal Reserve has caused and the total collapse of restaurants. No restaurant in the United States or in my experience in Europe today offers such a daily selection.

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Note, for example, that prime ribs of beef is priced at 60 cents, with a smaller portion at 35 cents. Oyster and crab Newburg is $1.00. Scallops poulette cost 60 cents. English pheasant en cocote is $3.00. Philadelphia squab is 75 cents. Coffee mousse is 30 cents.

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