Word: restaurateur
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...confusion-of-identity stunt;--all these and more are tangled up in Cook's Office in Paris with the Opera standing bravely in an empty square outside. All of a sudden you find it isn't Cook's; the ubiquitous Thomas has moved out and a female restaurateur has moved in. This produces a pretty confusion, especially since Cook's sign is still up. Various people come in to buy tickets and get advice; in this way the student, who is really a prince, and who has been dining at the restaurant, meets the girl, and in order...
Substitute for the present committee in charge of the Hall a practical and successful restaurateur with complete control. Having stipulated a maximum price of food (five dollars a week, for example), the Corporation would leave the steward free to run the restaurant for what profit he could make. Ordinarily better results are obtained when men in charge of business enterprises (and Memorial should certainly be run on strictly business lines), share in the profits of their work. Moreover, with a stipulated maximum price, the operator of Memorial Hall could not afford to serve poor food, for his profits would have...