The Catering Company history

It became a respectable and profitable business, and by 1830 was already on its way to becoming what it is today.

Edward Habenstein was born in Saxony, Germany, around 1844 and came to the US with his parents when he was young.

At the opening of Smith’s new restaurant in 1867, the entire city government was present and former mayor Josiah Quincy gave a speech.

Perhaps Starrett was unaware of the startling collapse in 1884 of one of the earliest for-profit ventures, The New-York Catering Company.

Writer and thinker Helen Starrett, author of After College – What?, predicted in 1889 that cooking would one day leave the home just as had soap and butter making.

She had been one of the city’s premier caterers since 1890 when she founded the Home Delicacies Association.

Rising at 4:00 a.m. she spent several hours before she left for the classroom each morning supervising the Home Delicacies crew which numbered about 50 by 1899.

He sold the restaurant building and all his catering equipment in 1905 while moving the bakery which continued in business for many years thereafter.

And, in 1907 the newly opened elite woman’s club in New York, The Colony, hired Sophia Nailer as chef.

Harriet married poet William Vaughn Moody in 1909 and after his death the following year began to befriend other poets, often putting them up at her places in Chicago, New York, and Cummington, sometimes for months-long stays.

She built a culinary reputation long before she opened Le Petit Gourmet in 1920 in Chicago’s Italian Court at 615 North Michigan Boulevard.

But her luck changed and in 1929 financial exigency required her to sell out.

An interesting development was the opening of the first unit of the fried chicken delivery chain Flying Chicken in Albuquerque in 1946.

A sample dinner was Green Turtle Soup, Ham Imperial, Brussels Sprouts, Salad, and Vienna Chocolate Cake. For example, the Casserole Kitchen in New York City, begun in 1951 by a continentally trained chef, offered about 10 entrees each day.

Founded in 1983, Made From Scratch grew from a small retail…

In 1994, at the age of 40, she was officially named Chief Executive Officer and drew upon her years of experience plus an innate, keen business sense to catapult Jay’s Catering to the top of the list of Best Caterers in Orange County several years running.

By the 2000’s catering really started to become popular especially with more women starting to enter the workforce.