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A chuckwagon, or chuck wagon, is a horse-drawn wagon operating as a mobile field kitchen and frequently covered with a white tarp, also called a camp wagon or round-up wagon. [1] It was historically used for the storage and transportation of food and cooking equipment on the prairies of the United States and Canada. [ 2 ]
The chuckwagon is invented by Charles Goodnight to feed cattlemen and wagon trains traversing the Old West. It's thought that Goodnight, a Texas cattle rancher himself, tricked out an Army wagon ...
The Wagon Wheel Café was acquired by Bill and Sadie Mae Pratt, operating independently of the motel and obtaining favorable reviews from the Duncan Hines travel guide. This popular eatery moved to a larger building east of the town as the Wagon Wheel Restaurant in 1954 [ 3 ] and was sold in December 1956.
Nov. 10—Jodi Susick wasn't going to miss her chance to order the red devil's food cake from the Wagon Wheel. "My dad would pick me up on his lunch break and bring me with him for lunch," said ...
Charles Feltman, circa 1910. Charles Feltman (1841–1910) was a German-American restaurateur. He is one of several claimed inventors of the hot dog.In 1871, Feltman began building his restaurant complex.
—Wagon Wheel restaurant will close doors after 6 decades-----Kaufman said it sold well alongside the restaurant's other desserts, but has really taken off in popularity over the past two decades.
The wagon was also stocked with a water barrel and a sling to kindle wood to heat and cook food. [8] [9] Another early relative of the modern food truck is the "lunch wagon", horse-drawn street cars whose night version was known as the "night owl", as conceived by food vendor Walter Scott in 1872 as a "kitchen on wheels".
Louis' Lunch is a fast food hamburger restaurant in New Haven, Connecticut, which claims to be the first fast food restaurant to serve hamburgers and the oldest continuously operated hamburger restaurant in the United States. It was opened as a small lunch wagon in 1895 and was one of the first places in the U.S. to serve steak sandwiches.