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Dec 10, 2023Liked by Micheline Maynard

Eagerly awaiting the Micki World Tour! I hope you will include San Francisco on it.

Thrilled to see Schrafft’s is returning in NYC. I’m a native New Yorker who grew up going to Schrafft’s. One was located a block away from the first apartment building where we lived. My mother would take my brother and me to Schrafft’s for lunch or after-school treats when we got good report cards, properly cleaned our rooms (or at least kept them from looking like hurricanes had swept through them), etc. I can’t wait to visit it again, and I hope their return is successful.

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Yes, of course, San Francisco tops my list! In the play You Can’t Take It With You, the Grand Duchess Olga, a refugee, finds a job at Schrafft’s. For some reason, that amused my mother, and whenever Schrafft’s came up in conversation, she’d say, “The grand duchess from Schrafft’s.”

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Dec 10, 2023Liked by Micheline Maynard

My favorite cultural references to Schrafft’s are “Breakfast at Tiffany” and “Auntie Mame,” when the character Gloria recounts how Mame’s nephew Patrick, in what we’d call a bougie move today, “spoke French to the counterman at Schrafft's.”

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