Word: stefani
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Employees in the College dining halls are doing their best to cooperate with University authorities for economy in the Kitchens, according to Joseph Stefani, secretary-treasurer of Local 186 of the Cook and Pastry Cooks Association, who said last night that the union recognized that it had everything to gain by reducing the cost of preparing student food...
...same time Stefani strenuously objected to a statement in the recent Student Council report on the College dining halls that he had remarked about the incompetence of one of the cooks...
...cheaply and well, the Committee attempted to check on the reputation as a buyer of Roy L. Westcott, who is Purchasing Agent for the University Dining Halls. Both Forrest L. Moore, now head butcher at the City Club in Boston and formerly butcher in the Harvard Union, and Joseph Stefani, Business Representative of the Cooks and Pastry Cooks Union, Local 106, in which many Harvard kitchen workers are enrolled, stated positively that Mr. Westcott is known as a shrewd buyer. To check more specifically on the lowness of the prices paid by Mr. Westcott, the Committee contacted Mr. Rose...
...easily met. Partly it is inherent in the mass-production of meals. But nevertheless the Committee believes there is room for improvement in the cooking. The root of the trouble lies in inexperienced and inefficient cooks. As an example of this, it was pointed out by Mr. Stefani, himself an experienced cook, that the broccoli served in the Union is prepared by a man who has had no outside cooking training, and is cooked in such a way that about 50% of the flavor and food value is lost. There is reason to believe that this sort of incompetency...
...forcing the University to boost wage rates last year, the union was indirectly responsible for the rise in board rates for the House dining halls. Stefani denied yesterday that there was any move contemplated to injure students and said that any pay readjustments were within the limits of proper returns to the workers...