Not a single days business was lost in the construction of this smart new Drive- in, around an old circular building which originally housed Shooster’s Drive-In Restaurant in Chester, Pa.
W ith showmanship and merchandising musts in modern restaurant operations, Shooster’s new drive-in completed a few months ago on Ninth Street in Chester, Penn- sylvania was planned especially with these points in mind. The original drive-in, a small circular build- ing designed principally for curb service of- fering a very limited menu, was established in 1938 by the late Frank Shooster and his sons Harry and Herman. The Shooster’s were new to the restaurant business, the father having been in the tailoring business and the sons having just finished high school. They strug - gled through the formulative years, improving procedures and methods, increasing their trade and extending their parking lot until it covered an entire city block. Plans Delayed by War With the upsurge in car ownership and traf- fic-choking the streets following the war they outgrew their original building and wanted to construct a new place in 1946 but had to content themselves with a $10,000 face lift because of the ban on commercial building. Plans to build a new building were shelved un- til 1950. Fate intervened and the father, Frank Shooster, died suddenly of a heart attack. Con- struction plans were set aside for still another year. Ground was finally broken on June 4th 1951.
Short order and car hop order areas were both planned and laid out for maximum working efficiency. Car hops pick up their orders on one side of the kitchen (lower photo) waitresses on the other.
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American Restaurant Magazine for November 1952
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