Word: cafeteria
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...Georgian Cafeteria, the manager was not quite so disappointed. "Yes," he said, "we have had an increase this week, but it is very small probably much less than...
...appointed. He also ran the halls successfully and well. But the President still disliked the cafeteria. The fact that the "caff" was too small to feed the number of students desiring to eat there made no difference. Despite the fact that every year a waiting list, numbered into the hundreds, while Memorial Hall was begging for customers, it was decided that the cafeteria be closed. The burning of Massachusetts Hall afforded an excuse of expediency. The college needed the room for offices. Here was a chance to discontinue the cafeteria, and to make Memorial Hall conform to the ideals...
...cafeteria used Memorial Hall kitchen. But serving both "Mem" and the "Caff" the kitchen was utilized up to its minimum capacity, at least. Instead of moving the cafeteria into the lower end of Memorial, the lower end was partitioned off and left blank. Half of the Serving-room is idle. All equipment is half utilized. The upstairs rooms are empty. Yet there was no room for a cafeteria, for the cafeteria was disliked. Sentiment again. At the first of the year graduate students were preached a sermon, "Be thou gregarious". To be gregarious meant to eat in groups...
Memorial Hall is designed with a double serving room. One end is idle. The same end of the hall is empty. There is room for the expansion of the forward end both on the floor and up-stairs. A cafeteria could easily be installed in the lower end of Memorial. If opened at the first of the next term the chance to eat" on your term bill" at a nominal rate would win back the lost patronage, Next year Memorial would serve 800 to 1000. Memorial would cease to be a white elephant, and the students could be gloriously gregarious...
...Owing to the habit of taking meals irregularly at different places--eating around, as it is called--and the preference for cafeteria over places where men can meet regualarly together, the attendance at the Hall has, since the war, been falling off. Last spring the Comptroller sent a circular to the students asking for their advice and criticism. Few men complained of the food; many wanted smaller tables and to pay by the meal instead of by the week. These changes were made, with the hope that the number of students would increase, but this has not happened. The Hall...