And to kind of tie several things together at once:

The podcaster Simon Majumdar recently did an interview with Jacques Pepin.

https://www.eatmyglobe.com/season-8/jacquespepin

During that interview, he mentioned that, as a special event, with Paul Freedman (author of "10 Restaurants that Changed America", they cooked one dish from each of the 10 restaurants for about 100 people.

Some of these dishes were from really high-end restaurants like Le Pavillon (where Pepin also worked).

"But the dish that everybody loved was the fried clams from Howard Johnson’s."