The Harvey Girls - wait staff at a Harvey House restaurant. Fred Harvey Company "They had the bravery to leave their small towns, and to travel on the train," said Fried. "These were unique women ...

In the last few years the Harvey House was clearly winding down. One of Charles Street’s institutions was taking the slow and dignified route to closing. When owners Lou Baumel and son Barry … ...

Emily Kuckuk, now the general manager at The Harvey House, recalls a highlight from her first dinner at the restaurant. Kuckuk, who worked in Chicago at the time, ordered a dirty martini.

It’s a feeling that’s all the more pronounced now that its neglected mezzanine has been meticulously restored. The Harvey House restaurant at Union Station opened in 1939.. It was designed by ...

The Harvey Co. later extended operations into non-railroad restaurants, and Chicago had Kungsholm Restaurant, Harvey House Restaurant, Harlequin Restaurant and others.

The Harvey House, although new, feels steeped in history already. The restaurant was named after two Harveys: Robbins Papach’s grandfather, and Fred Harvey, a man who started a chain of ...

Morse shared Harvey’s opinion about railroad food and in 1876 let him open a dining room in the Santa Fe’s Topeka depot, located at 4th and Holliday — the first Harvey House restaurant.

In the case of Harvey, Waffle House "jump teams," restaurant managers from Ohio, Tennessee and Georgia, headed to Houston to keep the grills going — in some cases doing the shifts of storm ...