1. The Delmonico brothers’ French restaurant was among the first eating establishments to let diners order from a menu with different choices, at any time they wanted, and sit at their own cloth-covered tables (437).
2.As Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace point out, restaurant culture in New York City changed forever with the arrival of Delmonico brothers’ French restaurant, which was among the first eating establishments to “let diners order from a menu of choices, at any time they pleased, and sit at their own cloth-covered table” (437).
3. In their history of New York City’s early years, Edwin G. Burrows and Mike Wallace describe the Delmonico brothers’ first eating establishment, opened in 1827, as a shop consisting of “a half-dozen pine tables where customers could sample fine French pastries, coffee, chocolate, wine and liquor” (437).
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