Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-10-12

get one. Nv wife thinks we might get along b!
permanently hiring an experienced headvaite
| and depending upon him for information, bu
| I'd rather have the information all my cwn II
can get it from book. Please don't print my
| name. ssFf.
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 q work
might be all we'll enough If the restaur-
| ant men had a 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
good-that is, it mght-wen, il might
make the business too common.
Good cooking, such as yourself and
your wife can do, is a good thing, even
for cheap restaurant. 1t will draw
every time; but, US you suggest, there
are many other things that you ought to
learn before risking an embarkatlon into
the business. The absence of h book
need not set you back, however. There
one of the "iniriatsd; in other words,
hire yourself out TO cheap restaurant
Us a waiter or in some other position
that will take you all 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 q 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 n little season.
Don t be in hurry. Keep up the servi-
tude until you are master workman,
eff it takes all summer.
When you are finished you can impart
your information to your wife and get
ready for the new restaurant. Yonr wife
will be surprised at the unlOOked-for
fund of information you have picked up.
She will find that, though both good
cooks, as you claim, you were both hope
lesslv ignorant SO far as relates TO cook
ing for a cheap restaurant. Many of
your best old-fashioned plans will have
to be entirely 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 a concomitant of the boarding.
house breakfast, and hence would not go
down with the patrons of a 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 eustards,
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 a head waiter and depending upon |
him as your source of information.
You III tell her that the first thing you d |
know ca thing you wauld be very apt to
never know some independent Ameri- |
can citizen who had learned something |
Of despotic country ways, would tip that
head waiter, and that. after this
little personal performance, your
profits on the patronage of said independ-
ant American citizen would be compare
lively email. Upon this yoE will strongly
lrge the buliness necessity of assooiat-
ng with the cheap restaurant routine
'apid change of walters. But, should
'ou take our advice, you III soon know
Ill about how it is yourself.