Still, the tide was turning. In 1966 members of the American Federation of Teachers voted at their annual convention at Chicago’s Edgewater Beach Hotel to picket the hotel’s Aunt Jemima restaurant unless it agreed to allow its workers to unionize and get rid of the mammy costume worn by ...
Chinese restaurant chains and consumer electronic brands may soon compete in the international marketplace, according to a new report from Bernstein Research and Interbrand. There is a paucity of global options for quick, cheap, consistent Chinese fast food, the report said, which will underpin dem...
made at home, or perhaps something that you drank at a diner. With the advent of Starbucks and other massive coffee chains, however, coffee shops have become a staple in the U.S. In fact, experts predict that there will be at least40,900coffee shops in the country by the end of ...
The ephemeral nature of political clubs in San Francisco at this time is head-spinning and hard to document 135 years later, but there was one consistent theme in the fall of 1888: the exclusion of the Chinese and the passage of the Scott Act, which expanded the powers of the Chinese Exc...