One of the guest of Moon Lake Lodge, suggested slicing the potatoes thin.
The Indian cook named George Crum sharpened his knife razor sharp and sliced the potatoes as thin as pasteboard and fried them.
Crum eventually opened his own restaurant, featuring chips.
The first commercial production got underway in 1895. William Tappenden of Cleveland, Ohio, made chips for his restaurant and neighboring stores.
He converted a barn at the rear of his house into one of the first potato chip manufacturing plant. The invention of mechanical potato peeler in the 1920s paved the way for potato chips to soar from a small specialty item to top selling snack.
American style potato chips began to be manufactured in Great Britain in the 1920s. To avoid confusion with ‘chip potatoes’, British manufacturers called their product ‘potato crisps’ or simply ‘crisps.’
History of potato chips
