Authors:Carol Dawson, Carol Johnston,
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Keywords: luby, cafeterias, revival, rise, plenty, house
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2006-10-01
List price: $21.00
ISBN-10: 0292706561
ISBN-13: 9780292706569

Scarred by the deaths of his mother and sisters and the failure of his father’s business, a young man dreamed of making enough money to retire early and retreat into the secure world that his childhood tragedies had torn from him. But Harry Luby refused to be a robber baron. Turning totally against the tide of avaricious capitalism, he determined to make a fortune by doing good. Starting with that unlikely, even naive, ambition in 1911, Harry Luby founded a cafeteria empire that by the 1980s had revenues second only to McDonald’s. So successfully did Luby and his heirs satisfy the