Word: schrafft
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...does this prematurely autobiographical book, which reveals, among other things, that martinis don't come with cherries. Seems that when Rona was 13, she wrote a story in which a lonely lady dining at Schrafft's "stared morosely at the cherry in the martini." The book ends with the intelligence, given a whole page to itself, that "a martini has an olive"; although, to be more precise, it is more frequently encountered nowadays in the company of a twist of dry lemon peel, or probably just the stare of the lonely lady. The book remorselessly follows Rona...
...pocket instead of out of their heart." This lack of involvement, he feels, extends to the audience as well, a result of being raised on note-perfect stereo recordings. Says Rubinstein: "In the old days, young girls would commit suicide after an overwhelming musical performance. Nowadays they go to Schrafft's and have some ice cream...
Heat in Flight. Such restaurant chains as Stouffer, Howard Johnson, and Schrafft's are using the ovens to heat precooked portions quickly; Manhattan's La Fonda del Sol uses one to warm up tortillas. The newest Hilton hotels also have ultrasonic ovens to make their food service faster. Tad's steak-house chain (eleven restaurants) has set up an experimental restaurant in Manhattan, where customers select complete meals from freezer chests, bring them to their tables and pop them into individual ovens that heat them up in about two minutes right by the tables. The chain plans...
...Schrafft's. If not Shakespearean, the conversation was at least spirited, thanks to Bleeck's ban on radios and jukeboxes. Also barred were French fries and ice cream. Customers gauche enough to request either were caustically advised to try Schrafft's down the street. Furnished in what historians of the day termed "early Butte, Montana" style, Bleeck's boasted mahogany-paneled walls and clustered electric globes, a suit of concrete-filled armor on which many a combative drunk broke his knuckles, a stuffed sailfish that had been caught by J. P. Morgan, and some...
...Argus-eyed and suspicious-minded operatives of Willmark seem to be everywhere, checking on employee morality, trustworthiness, courtesy and efficiency for more than 5,000 U.S. and Canadian employers, including Montgomery Ward, Allied Stores, F. W. Woolworth, Schrafft's and Sears. Every major U.S. auto manufacturer engages Willmark to "shop" the showrooms and report on which models the dealers are pushing hardest. Willmark men and women also watch for gypsters and- short-change artists at Disneyland concessions and patrol Playboy Clubs tempting fluffy-tailed Bunnies to break the strict rules against dating customers after hours...