the 1920s and 1930s lead to her becoming a well-known, minor national celebrity. The attention from media came from the popularity of her restaurant chain in New York. MacDougall's Media attention largely focused on her restaurants' success in a "male-dominated wholesale coffee market". Retirement MacDougall's retired in 1935, prompted by the negative impacts of the Great Depression on her business. The loss of patronship over this period essentially bankrupted her restaurant empire. However, the actual cause of MacDougall's bankruptcy was her inability to meet obligatory regular lease payments of her $1 million lease on Sevilla. MacDougall documented her great regret over locking her company into the lease contract in Alice Foote MacDougall’s Cook Book. When MacDougall's restaurants went into bankruptcy she was forced to assume personal control of the business. She remained in this position until the time the entire company went bankrupt. She thereafter survived on the remaining retained profits from her restaurants and the financial support of her eldest son Allan. She died at her home in Manhattan on February 10, 1945, at the age of 77. She was buried in Woodlawn Cemetery in The Bronx, New York City. References 1867 births 1945 deaths 20th-century American women writers American women restaurateurs American restaurateurs Businesspeople from New York City Women cookbook writers Writers from Manhattan