Patricia Murphy (restaurateur), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 05-Oct-1905
Place of Birth: Placentia, Newfoundland and Labrador, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
Date of Death: 01-Jan-0001
Profession: restaurateur
Zodiac Sign: Libra 
About Patricia Murphy (restaurateur)
- Patricia Murphy (1905–1979) was a restaurateur who operated nine Patricia Murphy Candlelight restaurants in New York and Florida over the course of half a century.
- Shortly after the Wall Street Crash of 1929, she invested her last $60 in a small Brooklyn restaurant.
- Soon she was one of the most successful restaurant owners in the New York area, serving a million meals a year in 1956.
- Her signature item was the popover, a hot bread dispensed from baskets by costumed servers known as popover girls.Murphy recounted what she called her "female Horatio Alger" story in her 1961 autobiography, Glow of Candlelight, which set a New York City record for sales of autographed books at Macy's in Herald Square.
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