Nathan Handwerker

Nathan craftsmen ( born June 14, 1892 in Germany, † March 1, 1974 in Sarasota, Florida, USA ) was a Polish- American businessman of Jewish descent.

Life

Craftsmen emigrated to Belgium in 1910 and in 1912 continued to New York. In addition to his job as a messenger boy at Max 's Busy Bee, where he earned $ 4.50 a week, he worked at Feltman 's German Gardens, a restaurant in Coney Iceland ( Brooklyn, New York), in which he sliced ​​bun. The restaurant offered at this time hotdogs for 10 cents.

In 1916 craftsman was founded by two of his colleagues, who later became actors Eddie Cantor and Jimmy Durante, who worked as a singing waiter at Feltman 's, encouraged to open up his own hot dog stand and offer his hot dogs for only 5 cents. In the same year artisans opened with a capital of $ 300 and the help of his wife Ida own hot dog stand at the intersection of Surf Avenue and Stillwell Avenue in Coney Iceland, where he sold his hot dogs for a nickel. The hot dogs were seasoned with a spice mixture whose composition was the secret of his wife. His status grew and in 1925 he opened Nathan 's Famous. Further expansion took place in 1957, when his son Murray craftsman ( b. 1921 ) persuaded him to open a second store in Oceanside, Long Iceland. Soon after start of the concession ( franchise system ) Nathan 's Famous became popular and began to sell its products in the early 1970s to supermarket chains. Craftsman is often referred to as the inventor of the American hot dogs, but this is certainly not proven.