Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-16

| get one Nv wife thinks we might get along by
| permanently hiring an experienced headwaiter
ana depending upon him for information. but
L rather nave the information all my own II
can get it from book Please don't print my
name ass.
Dallas, Texas.
There is no such book as you ask about.
Like some of our secret societies the great
"traternity' of CHEAP restaurant keep
ers has no written ritual. Such a work
might be all we'll enough if the restaur-
ant men had q language of their own
that no outsider could understand, and
the book was written in that language,
but since this is not thus. and since al
| most every body can, nowadays, read
plain English in plain print, and since
that book might meet with patronage
outside the 'fraternity - the possibility
exists that it would do more harm than
gooi-that is, it might-well, it mig hit
make the business too common.
Good cooking, such as yourself and
your wife can do, is a good thing, even
for a cheap restaurant. 1t will draw
every time; but, as you suggest, there
are many other things that you ought to
learn before riskiug an embarkatIon into
the business. The absence of Ii book
need not set you back, however. There
is another avenue open 10 you: become
one of the "initiated: in other words,
hire yourself out to cheap restaurant
as a waiter or in some other position
that will take you ell through the ma
chine. Don't be particular about the
wages offered you. Keep your eyes and
ears open, but never intimate that you
have notion of picking up the trade for
yourself. 1t is not likely that any
restaurant will keep you long, for good
reasons well understood by the craft,
but that doesn I make much difference
on receiving your walking papers you
can hustle around and soon hitch onto
some other house for little season.
Don't be in O hurry. Keep up the servi-
tude until you are master workman,
eft ii takes all summer
When you are finished you can impart
your information to your wife and get
ready for the new restaurant. Your wife
will be surprised at the unlock ed-f for
fund of information you have picked up.
She will find that, though both good
cooks, as you claim, you we're 10th hope
lessly ignorant So far as relates TO cook
ing for q cheap restaurant. Many of
your best old fashioned plans will have
to be entir ly discarded, even hash,
which you may have so fondly discussed
in connection with ,ba k-number meats,
will be forced to slide out of the pro-
gramme, you having learned that hash
is only concomitaut of the boarding
house breakfast, and hence would not go
down with the patrons of restaurant.
But you Will more than make up for this
important loss by giving her the latest
method of getting up ''stewed meats,
and of making soups, rice custarus,
mince pies in winter, and various other
things that the craft knows more about
than it is necessary the customer should
know. Your hands will be so full of
other business that you will devote no
time to any more worrying over the
waste of victuals mentioned in your let
ter.
When you are an adept you will
promptly explode your wife's notion of
hiring head waiter and depending upon
him as your source of information.
You III tell her that the first thing you ID
know Ga thing you wauld be very apt to
never know some independent Ameri-
can citizen who had learned something
of despotio country ways, would tip that
head waiter, and that. after this
little personal performance, your
profits on the patronage of said independ-
ent American Citizen would be compare
lively small. Upon this vor will strongly
urge the blu Iiness necessity of assooiat-
ing with the cheap restaurant routine a
rapid change of walters. But, should
you take our advice, you III soon know
all about how it is yourself.