Schrafft's, New York 1939 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) When I stopped in

When I stopped in

specifying partridges and a Japanese salad and leaving the rest to be chosen by the maître d'hôtel

we think this image was from the 1960s

This relationship was the subject of the film Mrs Brown

returns to the peak of fashion

Schrafft's, New York 1939 Sizes:A2 (420x594mm) Archival Print (Unframed) When I stopped inSchraffts began life as a candy manufacturer in Boston and in 1898 one its salesmen, a visionary man called Frank G Shattuck, opened the first store in New York. His sister Jane introduced the concept of light lunches and Schraffts developed into a chain of restaurants that was particularly popular with women. In an interview with the New York Times in 2004, Mr Shattucks great grandson Frank said of the restaurants refined clientele: Everyone wore