lunch wagon

Rut is well schooled in food prep after running a lunch wagon at farm auctions for 11 years and insists that the hamburger be freshly ground the same day she and her volunteers make the patties with plastic Tupperware forms.

Gutman was involved in the move and restoration of Lamy’s Diner, which is located inside the Henry Ford Museum of American Innovation at The Henry Ford, and the reconstruction of the Owl Night Lunch Wagon, which is located in The Henry Ford’s Greenfield Village attraction.

Louis Lunch, 263 Crown St., originated as a lunch wagon in 1895 and was recognized by the Library of Congress as the U.S. birthplace of the hamburger.

The corporate lunch wagon had a line of customers stretching into Franklin Square.

American diner folklore traces the birth of the roadside “lunch wagon” to Rhode Island, 1872.