Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1886-12-18
BUSINESS MEN FAVOR IT
THE PROPOSED CHANGE IN
BUSINESS HOURS.

hotel Men and Restaurant Keepers
Anxious for the New Schedule-The
Family Cooks Don't Favor the Move
ment-Some Things IN Favor or and
Some Objections to the New Plan.
The movement to change the dinner
hour from 2o'clock until is heartily
Endorsed by the restaurant men. They,
of course, look al the matter from mer-
cenary point of view. II the hour is
changed and lunch is substituted for
the , O'Clock meal, they will sell more
sandwiches, coffee, oysters, pie, etc.
a great many win take a lunch to the
office from home. Clerks and business
men who live in boarding houses or
hotels would be apt to pstroniZe the res
taurants or 90 to the hotel for lunch.
Il would be very we'll satisfied to see
the change made" said a well known
hotel proprietor last night. ave would be
likely to get more business by Ii. The :
O'Clock dinner at the hotels cannot be
done away with, however. Ihere are 700
many people travelling who want good
square meal before starting of on train.
and TWO of the principal trains Of the day
leave here about the present dinner hour.
We could set another dinner at = O'Clock
very conveniently ii il was wanted.
WHAT THE HOTEL MEN SAY.
''Iu the big hotels IN New York dinner is
served regularly at O'Clock, just as il Is
in the private houses. A hotel in the
smaller cities has to regulate its meals
by the railroad trains and the hours gen.
orally observed in eating by the business
men. But aside from any pecuniary mo-
tive ] think that the change would be a
good thing. The business man will get
an hour and half more time out OF his
clerks in the middle OF the day when they
feel most like working. still better
plan think would be from SunJil >. That
would DO hours" or SH allowing tor
lunch.
ali the houses do not close until the
men cannot get home and be ready for
dinner much before !, which is little late
Tor a dinner hour. Now they open at in
the morning. My idea would be TO open
an hour earlier and close an hour earlier"
THE BOARDING HOUSE KEEPERS.
The propretress of boarding house.
who was asked for her views, said that
she had not considered the matter enough
to come to 4 conclusion. IL every one
could be induced to accept the change it
would not make much d difference tc her,
except that it would bring a heavy meal
late in the day.
The COOKS probably would not like it,
as they are a conservative set and hard
to get out of am accustomed groove. Now
they do their heavy work in the middle of
the day and have comparatively light
work in preparing supper.
DON'T KNOW ABOUT IT.
al don't know what ] am going to do
about this matter" remarked Bay
street man yesterday. my partner ia
vors it and think 1t is a good scheme.
but my wife opposes it. She says / will
20 of a o'clock and will not show up 1t
nome again until after 8. The women
folks say they like to see US come around
in tie middle Of the day. l rather think
they do too, about this time OF the year,
when they are doing their Christmas
shopping. l think we married fellows
would save money by making a change in
the dinner hour and by not going home
until it was too late to 20 out shopping"
YOUNG MARRIED MANS VIEWS.
A recently married member Of another
firm was asked tor his views, and he
made the most violent assault on the
movement it has yet received. He has
been in the habit of taking a midday din
ner all his life, he said, and be does not
want 70 break the habit now. From his
tone one would have concluded that the
gentleman considers two hours as very
short time In which 10 go home and get
dinner.
The petition was favOrably discussed
yesterday in most Of the prominent
houses aud number Of signatures were
obtained during the day,