Read the story and do the tasks after it:The History of RestaurantsWhenever
one plans to eat out the first thing that comes to his/her mind is a
restaurant. A great number of food shops and eating places has always been a
part of our social life. The restaurants, a French invention, appeared in the
second half of 18th century.Restaurant
serves a variety of dishes, each priced, separately chosen from a menu,
according to one’s preferences, available anytime of the day. According to the Guinness World Records the oldest restaurant is situated in Madrid (1725). The word "restaurant" is also associated with France of 1783 and the name Beauvilliers, who had served as chef to Louis
XVIII, in Palais Royal. The market was full of chefs and other related
personnel from 1789 onwards. Ten years later Beauvilliers when his restaurant
closed down due to the French Revolution left for England. At this time a large
number of people left France for England, the richest country in Europe.Many of the
chefs turned their talents from preparing food for the nobility to a
bourgeoisie. It became a golden age for restaurants the number of which increased
more than six-fold in fifteen years, from one hundred in 1789 to nearly six
hundred in 1804. Restaurant revolution brought many changes in the dining
patterns. It introduced 11 am and 12 noon déjeuner à la fourchette (breakfast
with a fork), preceeded by le petit-déjeuner (breakfast). In around 1800 Count von Rumford, an American, introduced the first
commercially available "modern" kitchen ranges. The number of dishes
that took much time to be prepared was reduced. On the other hand, the dishes
that could be prepared fast were offered to the customers more, for example, roasts
were replaced by pan fried. Thus eating out became totally a different
experience than what it had been earlier.
The first restaurant proprietor is believed to have been A. Boulanger, a soup
vendor, who opened his business in Paris in 1765.
The first ever Drive-In Restaurant was opened in Glendale, California in
1936. In Drive-in Restaurants the food to the customer was served while they
are sitting in their cars. This type of restaurants became most popular in
around 1950s.
Ray Kroc was the pioneer of the fast-food industry with his worldwide
McDonald's enterprise (1954). He revolutionized the American restaurant
industry offering hamburgers, french fries, and milk shakes. In 1977, the first
McDonald's "Happy Meal" was regionally tested in St. Louis. The first
nationwide Happy Meal was served in 1979.