American Plan (1852, 1854)

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   To capture Saddam Hussein?  Nah, let's talk about food & lodging.
   OED has "European plan" from 1834, "the method or practice at a hotel for lodging and service without inclusion of meals."  OED has "American plan" from 1856, "the system of charging an inclusive price for room and board in a hotel."
   Score another for the BROOKLYN EAGLE!


   9 October 1852, BROOKLYN DAILY EAGLE, pg. 4:
   AMERICAN HOTEL IN EUROPE.--Mr. D. D. Howard, late of the Irving House, New York, is about to establish a hotel on a large and magnificent scale in London.  We have several hotels in this country conducted on the "European plan," and now there is one to be established in England on the "American plan."  This is convenient and accomodating all around, and--just as it should be.--_Baltimore Sun_.

   25 February 1854, LIVING AGE (Making of America-Cornell), pg. 399:
   Three gentlemen of Paris purpose to establish hotels on the American plan, huge in dimensions and complete in all accommodations, with an eye to the influx of strangers to the Great Exhibition of 1855.

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