The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1889-03-08
JOHN wANAMAkeR's KITCHEN.

It IL an Appetizer. and Is Especially
Noted for Fine Iinco Pies.
John Wanamaker has one of the
biggest kitchens in the world. II ID
in the basement of his Philadelphia
store, where no rats are tolerated and
no dampness is permitted to penetrate.
Wanamaker takes great pride in this
kitchen, as he does in everything con-
nected with his store. Often he goes
down to the big steam cooking pans,
lifts the lid, tastes the soup, peeps at
boiling potatoes, or inspects the little
porcelain pan in which the charlotte
russo is served. Wanamaker is noted
for his rich charlotte russo, and the
delicacy is made from recipe fur
nished the chief cook by Wanamaker
himself. Wanamaker likes to take
visitors through his kitchen and ask
them to sample the food in all its
stages OF preparation. His is one of
the few great kitchens in the world
which man may 60 through and
come out with a good appetite.
Wanamaker's kitchen is actually an
appetizer. The great merchant is
never so happy as when running q
knife into the Lancaster county but
ter and passing it around for visitors
to taste. In Wanamaker's restaurant
from 1000 to 5000 persons are fed
every day, and Wanamaker is not too
proud to lunch in his own shop. In
summer he makes and sells there 5000
quarts of ice cream daily, and in oys.
ter season fries 10000 oysters. Wanna
maker knows his trade and caters to it
as carefully as an apple woman on the
street corner. That is the way he be-
came rich.
An instance of this is to be found in
the orders he once gave his restaurant
manager about mince pies. Have
only the best mince pies that money
will buy" he said, ''even if you have
to sell at loss I can afford to sink
&c. 900 year in mince pies rather
han have people say l do not give
them good pies. The people of Phila-
delphia can't be fooled on mince pies"
Neither can Wanamaker, and with his
usual carefulness in seeing that all his
orders are carried out to the letter it
was for long time his custom to slip
downstairs and sample the pie every
day. Wanamaker is now famous for
his mince pies
When Wanamaker first started up
his restaurant, then much smaller
place than it now is, his manager Or
dered 200 dozen assorted pies in antici-
patton of a big run by the Philadel-
phians on their favorite pastry. But the
customers were scarce the next day,
and when the store closed 1877 dozen pies
were still on hand. The restaurant
manager was in CONSERVATION. He
at once sought Wanamaker, whom he
found in his Office after all the en-
ployes had gone home. care the pies
still good2" asked the great merchant
after listening to the managers story.
eyes; they will be good all day to-
morrow, but not after that" We'll,
then, said Wanamaker, put an adj
vertisement in every morning paper
tomorrow announcing that for this
day only we will sell choice, fresh
pies at a cent cut. See what that
will do" Next morning the Phila-
delphians read Wanamaker's pie adj
vertlsements and by nightfall there
was not a piece Of pie left in the house.
In telling this story Manager Gillian
added: "That is the way with Wanna
maker He will have only the best
that is to be had, and when the goods
won't move he makes them move. y
Cor. Chicago Tribune.