Word: cooks
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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Then, on the matter of service, the outside table can hire a cook and waitress for twenty-five men at not over $10 per week. This is forty cents per man for service, while at the dinning-hall the cost for service per week is seventy cents per man. This includes the salaries of all officials from the steward and auditor down. One waiter has 14 men, and he receives $4.50 per week, while at the club table one waitress has 25 men and receives not over $4 per week...
...told by a friend that the place where he was boarding was being run on the same plan as Memorial Hall, though of course on an infinitesimal scale. A freshman had started the enterprise. He had secured rooms on Bow street; engaged table-ware, etc., and hired a cook and a waitress. He then issued notices and got up a table of twenty-four men (chiefly Law School men who had left Memorial). He buys the provisions himself, pays the servants and other little expenses, and gets his own board free for his services. The bill of fare is very...
...Joseph Cook begins his Monday lectures at Tremont Temple next Wednesday...
...cook brings with him three men who make the beds, wait on table, wash dishes, go around to the farmers for eggs and milk and do all work of a similar sort. The cook also brings all the knives, forks etc., and the greater part of the crockery. This year the cook came down June 15th and stayed until July 3rd. Considering the shortness of the engagement and the great importance to the crew of good cooking, the sum paid is not high...
...wages for cook and help, $153.- 80 may at first seem a large sum; but when one considers the importance of the cook's position, he practically has the success of the crew in his hands, one would naturally expect that high wages should be paid for a short term of service. It may be well to add that "help" signifies three assistants...