The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1892-11-17
TOO MANY EATERS.
Bad Luck Overtakes a New
French Chef.
THE BILL OF FARE RAN OUT.
V. Joe Quartararo Was Therefore COM
PEELED to Hunt Another job
and Kitchen.

V. Joe Quartararo is French cook, but
he is not working now. He started in on
new job Tuesday night, but it went the
way Of all situations simply because he
could not satisfy $50 eaters with the food
provided for 125.
Had V. Joe been able to perform this lat
ter-day miracle and then gather up enough
fragments to feed the hired help he might
still be chef at the Mich olas.
But, alas for the lack of executive ability
in mankind in general and French cooks in
particular V. Joe QuaTtararo could not
make both ends meet. In consequence he
lost his place before breakfast yesterday
morning. Furthermore his ability as chef
has been questioned, on account of which
V. Joe is highly indignant. The best chef
in the world. he says, cannot feed hungry
people on wind exclusively aud make a
success OF II,
Tuesday evening the Hotel Nicholas on
Market street. near Hayes, waBin position
to open with great eclat. Tables glittering
with new silver were set in the dining-rOom
and in the kitchen was an army OF cooks
and walters in command of Y. Joe. chef
In the light OF subsequent events V. Joe
and his understudles were about all the
kitchen and larder combined contained,
hence the trouble.
In the afternoon when V. Joe dOnned his
cap and apron TO get up the dinner, Mrs.
Couch. the landlady. Informed hum that the
larder was stocked with enough ram, lamb
and soup for lbs persons. So the Few chef
went TO work with great vigoT and enthusl-
asm, and when the doors OF the dining hall
were thrown open To the feeders he was all
ready TO receive them.
Everything promised an suspicious open
ing for the Hotel Nicholas.
Al tie tap Of the gong a well-trained corps
of food-passers picked up their trays-trayS
full they were at the start-and soon an un-
broken line of vlctuals was In transit from
Y. JOe's domain 10 the dining-ro0m.
All went we'll until the 125 people pro-
vided for had been fed then trouble doomed
upon the horizon for the new chef. hungry
people continued TO asSaIl the fort long after
the food had given out
According 10 Y. Joe's unsolicited state
men 325 additional bOarders not specified in
the bond arrived with their appetites snort
ly after all the ram, lamb and soup had been
carried away by their predecessors.
1t seems that the landlady had unbounded
faith in the proves OF her French chef, for
she ordered '. Joe to keep on serving up in
spite OF the famine in the kitchen.
Fag ends OF everything were hastily
scraped up and chucked into the dining
room. where they We're rapidly absorbed by
the clamOring boarders. who yelled for
more.
When the victuals gave out V. Joe and
his understudies got fans and waited the
odor of the recent dinner through the tran
som over the kitchen door, but even this did
not check the demand Tor table d hote on the
other side.
Famine still ragged in the Hotel Nicholas
auc V. Joe began tearing great wads of hair
from his luXuri0usly clothed SCALP. lie
ordered consultation and sent for the land
lady.
They rapidly surveyed the situation and
as last d sperate resort decided to send in
the menu prepared for the help. That settled
it, When the horn steaks aud other tidbts
were set before them the bOarders resigned
their positions at the table and foated away
into tne starry night.
They could endure scraps on a pinch or
even the cold. half-hearted breeze from a
dinner that's past and gone, but they drew
the line at that which builds up and sus-
tans the hired help around a hotel.
Early next morning Y. Joe Quartararo,
French chef. was informed that he couldn't
fill the bill at The Hotel Nicholas, so he
packed up his frying pans and left.
lie said he WAS going to quit anyhow, so
1t doesn't make much difference. During
the four years he was employed as chef at
the Union Cluo V. Joe says he was never
called upon to I'LL $50 people with food for
125, and on that account never had any
trouble worth mentioning.