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Restaurant history quiz answers
1. A – Teas
2. B — Dutchland Farms – after being challenged, Johnson substituted a cupola for Dutchland Farm’s windmill.
3. C – Fixed price meal
4. C – Shrimp – I have not found shrimp on menus until the 1870s.
5. B – Bed – 1 shilling for the bed, 2 for the hay, almost 3 for the dinner, 10 for the champagne.
6. B – No frills – kickshaw is believed to be a corruption of the French term quelque chose, meaning a side dish or relish.
7. B – Oyster stew – there are numerous explanations of why some oysters were called box oysters.
8. D — 1950 – the Automat raised its coffee prices to 10 cents, signaling an industry-wide change which had been delayed by the Depression and WWII price freezes.
9. C – Polynesian restaurant – but D might be right too.
10. A – Herbs and spices