The Cheyenne daily leader. [volume] (Cheyenne, Wyo.) 1870-1884, 1883-10-09
FREE LUNCH SALOONS
The BUNS Paradise, and the Impe.
cunious Mans Last Hope.
lChicago News.1

lShhChRO NVWSI
"They are various, of course, and depopd a
good deal on the class of customers to be
catered to, There are German peddlors who
visit the free lunch places every morning with
= supply OF sausage, bologna, beef, bones and
vegetables. The proprietor buys what he
wants for the day, and usually gets it cnoap.
He adds to this assortment sweitzer cheese,
rye bread end mustard, and probably the
whole outfit COSTS him rs cents or 81. Some
surtail expenses by buying tainted meat,
~second-hand ssusago and stale th,.S gen
srally, cooking tho meat till the bad
flavor Is well nigh separated from it.
such lunches are furnished at q very
trining outlay. Bot many Of the low class
OF saloons pursue an entirely different
method of procuring material for their
lunch table. They have a special arrange
ment with certain eating houses aud hotek
by which thoy obtain the offscourings of the
tables, and the scraps and remnants from
the kitchens, such as would be thrown away
If not thus utilized. This stuff cost little OF
nothing, and tho saloonist il enabled to
spread a decent looking lunch, including hot
soup, to tho surprise and delight of his Gus
toners, who wonder how he can afford It
II they could SEQ how it is prepared, they
would not only cease to wonder, but in all
probability would lose their appetitas every
time they looked at it.n
"Are not these saloon-kecpers ANNOYED a
great deal by ravenous buns who attack
their lunchesF'
Yes, they AVE tho professional lunch
fonds to deal with. The free-lunch saloon is
the buns paradise and the impecunious
mans hope. But 1t doesn't take long for a
sharp bartender to spot the man who spends
a nickel and devours q quarters worth OF
grub. Nothing is said to him the first time,
putA repetition OF the ofenso is pretty GER
vain to call forth a polite but firm invitation
10 make himself scarce in that house, and to
remain away in future. Why, thore ar,
men In this town who subsist in
never paying a csnt for what
they e>t All thoy spend is the necessary
nickel Tor a glass of beer, without which they
cannot consider themselves a welcome guest
at tho banquet. Nevertheless, when the
saloon Is crowded, there ara always a few
slick ones who sneak their grub without buy
ing any besn, and are not detected. There is
many a weil-dressed clerk in Chicago who
makes a practice Of lunching on saloon fare.
He belongs to the poorly paid class of coun-
tor-1umpers, and with 5 cents spent for beer
or a bottle Of pop he secures all he wants to
eat, such as il is.
But such customers are not profitableT'
mo; but they dress well, and look like
m~ilhonaires, you know, and the shrewd pro-
prietor has an idea that their presence in his
saloon lends an air oil dignity to the place and
helps to attract trade. He makes it up off of
another class Of customers. Regular beer
guzzlers are never satisfied with one glass,
and If they are attracted to the place by the
lunch, they spend the amount tina a good
meal would cost for beor. It is usually the
case, TOO, that the more q man drinks tho
le. he cats Pretzels are tbs principal fea-
ture Of the Dutch beer saloon lunch. They
are salty and create a thirst, which makes
them profitable"
How about the lunch Of arst-class sa-
looms, such as yoursr'
They are always firyt-class, like the sa-
looms themselves Ny lunches are ALWAYS
prepared under my own supervision and in
structions- You can get no better food at
the Palmer house. We have a class of custo-
n.rs TO please who don't patronize beer
shops or even cheap restaurants, and we
could not afford to offer them inferior quail
ties of either liquor or lunch. In some Of the
best saloons it is the custom to hand each
customer a hot fried oyster on a silver fork
the momsnt he swallows his liquor. There
il nothing more delicious than a fried oyster
after . drink"
The saloon-keepers, however, no longer
have a monopoly of the free lunch business
in Chicago. To Offset this attraction, which
is calculated TO entice young men into the
spider web OF intemperance, the cold water
people of the CRY are opening free lunch
rooms about town. One of these is ON West
Lake street, near Paulina, where any one
will be cheerfully provided with q fir~st-class
lunch without being required TO spend a soil
tary nickel, and will bs treated to a temper
ance lecture to boot.