A strange little side quest
Between one round of Restaurant Makeover and the next, this is worth knowing: Nancy Johnson patented a hand-cranked ice-cream freezer in 1843 that used an inner churning chamber surrounded by ice. There is another connection worth keeping in the same mental pocket: Barbie Fashion Designer became a major software hit in 1996, selling more than 500,000 copies in two months and proving there was a large audience for fashion-focused computer play. So a round of Restaurant Makeover is not just a quick distraction; it is a tiny stop on a much longer food history timeline.
