Oyster bar

One source claims that Sinclair's, a pub in Manchester, England, is the United Kingdom's oldest oyster bar.

[4] London's oldest restaurant, Rules, also began business as an oyster bar.

[5] In North America, Native Americans on both coasts ate oysters in large quantities,[6] as did colonists from Europe.

During the early 19th century, express wagons filled with oysters crossed the Allegheny Mountains to reach the American Midwest.

African-Americans were drawn to the oyster industry because it promised autonomy, as they were involved throughout the process of harvesting and selling.

The beds of the Chesapeake Bay, which supplied much of the American Midwest, were becoming rapidly depleted by the early 1890s.