Comments on: Look Before You Eat

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 19:12:08 +0000

Gee I don’t know…..maybe cause there were thousands of restaurants without a gimmick that didn’t get publicized in Mechanix Illustrated?

Or how about this? Let’s say we go for 3″ by 3″ pictures or 9 square inches. We’ll be conservative and stipulate 20 menu items. Twenty 9 sq in pictures totals 180 square inches. or almost 2 more pages of color printing (and not a digital printer in sight in 1951). And of course you change, delete or add just one menu item and you get to throw out all the picture menus and start again.

But that’s my guess.

By: Thundercat

Thundercat — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:16:39 +0000

ummm, why not just put pictures on the menu?

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 13:07:12 +0000

Yeah,a gourmet chop house. Why not?

By: Mike Brisendine

Mike Brisendine — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:43:58 +0000

Viewmaster for grownups.

By: Blurgle

Blurgle — Fri, 25 Jan 2008 02:27:59 +0000

A ‘gourmet’ chop house? Ho-kay…

By: jon

jon — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 21:54:55 +0000

It’s hard to imagine a Chop House could ever have had a super-duper menu that people would find confusing, particularly in the 1950s!

By: Firebrand38

Firebrand38 — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 13:04:11 +0000

The writer got the name wrong but the place is still around as Keens Steakhouse http://www.keens.com/index.html