Word: cafeteria
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...read the luncheon menu at one of Manhattan's newest and biggest restaurants last week. Price of the meal: 97?. Owner of the restaurant: Socony Mobil Oil Co., which installed a cafeteria and seven dining rooms in its Manhattan headquarters to give 2,400 employees bargain food at a sizable loss to itself every month. Operated by the Brass Rail Restaurant (on a cost-plus fee basis), the dining rooms are graded according to rank, with white-collar workers in one room, various executive echelons in the others. All rooms are air-conditioned, have piped-in music...
...speed production. Workers who once took an hour for lunch outside can eat in half an hour inside, get off earlier at day's end. Many companies report other benefits. One Indiana steel mill said that five nearby saloons had to shut down after it opened a good cafeteria, while the Prudential Insurance Co. found that nutritional deficiencies among its office help-especially young girl workers, who leaned heavily on soda-and-cruller lunches-have almost disappeared. Chicago's Encyclopaedia Britannica reported that the output of its office force has increased 300% in the past five years, with...
When Motorola installed a round-the-clock cafeteria in its Chicago plant, it was pleasantly surprised that entire families patronized it to save money and eat better than at home. Says an executive of a San Francisco firm, which serves a roast-beef dinner for 57?: "You give everybody a $5 monthly raise, and in six months they've all forgotten about it. But they eat here every day and they don't forget." Many unions, which once frowned on plant cafeteria programs as unwanted paternalism, now realize that they benefit workers; some even demand a lunch program...
...Knowland sent his breakfast dishes flying in all directions. Six months later he was off to the Army, soon was bound for Europe as a public information and military government officer. It was in the summer of 1945 when Major William Knowland, drinking coffee in an Army cafeteria in Paris, picked up a copy of Stars and Stripes and read that he had been appointed by Governor Earl Warren to succeed the late Hiram Johnson in the U.S. Senate...
...main dining hall is divided into two parts for lunch: One half is cafeteria-style, ever-so-faintly reminiscent of the Houses, and the other half is serviced by waiters. The menu is the same in both parts, and at dinner, there is no self-service...