The Rise And Fall Of Denny's

Kroc had come to see the McDonalds in 1954 after they bought two additional “multimixer” machines, each capable of making five milkshakes at a time, for their restaurant, bringing the total to ten machines. How could one restaurant, Kroc wondered, possibly need to make fifty milkshakes at once? He went to visit and was amazed by what he saw. After

Situé sur Collins Avenue, à l’angle de la 21e Rue, ce diner ouvert 24 heures sur 24, encore en livrée d’époque, fut fondé en 1940 par un certain Wilfred Cohen, qui avait l’art et le don d’acheter et de revendre toutes sortes de restaurants acquis pour la plupart au bord de la faillite avant d’être repulpés et ensuite rétrocédés au plus haut de leur

The idea was slow to take off. America had only fifteen drive-ins by 1939, and ninety-six by 1945. But everything changed in 1949 when Hollingshead’s patent was overturned, allowing other entrepreneurs to open drive-ins without fear of lawsuits. The invention of the in-car speaker, which could be clipped to a car window, also helped. It ensured goo

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By spawning drive-ins, fast-food joints, and malls, cars reshaped the physical and cultural landscape of America, and then of many other countries, too. But all of these twentieth-century car-centered institutions are now in decline. Admittedly, the few remaining drive-in cinemas saw a revival of interest during coronavirus lockdowns, and in a neat