Manufacturer: Buffalo China
User: Waldorf Lunch System
Date of mug: 1916

 

Notes: From Jan Whitaker's Consumer Society website, the first Waldorf Lunch opened in 1904, in Springfield, Mass. "In keeping with its full name, 'Waldorf Lunch System,' everything about it was highly standardized. All food was prepared in a central commissary and delivered to the units. The chain, which moved its base to Boston, served 36 million meals in 1920."

Estimates of the number of Waldorf Lunch locations at the height of its success vary from 75 stores to more than 100. It is not known when it closed.

White body, Waldorf Lunch in black script on a diagonal with a design of intertwined K&W, more than likely for the owners' names, O.F. Kinney and P.E. Woodward.

See also:
Waldorf Lunch by Maddock Pottery
Waldorf Lunch 2 by Walker China
Waldorf Lunch 4 by Wood & Sons
Waldorf System by Jackson China

ID and photo contributed by Kathleen