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...employee, not the usual two, tends to the salad bar. Only one cleans up Quincy's 50 tables after closing time during the week--and on weekends, staff say no one does it. General service staff count on the checker to help move food on the hot line. Even the manager can sometimes be seen cooking in the kitchen...
...idea what to write next. The nine-year old wiggled in her chair in Vicky Valtaras' small dining room near Central Square, trying to come up with another sentence for her homework assignment. The nine-year old whined to her mother, Lowell House's principal dining hall card checker, "I don't know what to do!" Vicky calmly urged her to finish her work. "Just think about what it would feel like, and write something," she said. She spoke to her daughter with the same blunt tone she uses with dawdling diners at Lowell, directing them to "please put away...
...presides over the serving area, Death must preside over the dining area. (That's his life-size picture looming down on you from the wall, dressed in black robes and wearing the face of former Harvard President Charles Eliot--Eliot was the creator of the QRR, after all). The checker's table becomes Cerberus, sternly overseeing the passage of souls (read: diners) from savory-baked life to oak-paneled afterlife. The dining hall proper is like a vast tomb where emptiness oppresses from all sides. The endless rows of uninviting conference tables (sprinkled with too-few friendly round tables...
...said the group made it all the way to Adams, only to hear that the dining hall checker was turning the throng away...
...challenged by a checker for not having an Adams sticker, but he admits paying little heed...