Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-08
LUNCH SYSTEM
FOR NEW SCHOOL
KITCHEN AND DINING ROOM IN
POLYTECHNIC
The Board of Education Prepares to
Branch Out Into the Restaurant
Business for Benefit
of Pupils

One innovation planned by the new
board of education is the equipment of
the polytechnic high school with kitchen
and dining room for serving lunches to
pupils.
To give their students warm, whole
some lunches is the problem those in
charge of the new school are endeavor-
ing to solve. 1t is asserted by both
parents and teachers all over the land
that the boiling of poorly cooked and
inferior food by scholars is responsible
for a great deal of stomach trouble,
which not only affects the health of
students but tends to lower their schol-
arship.
In Los Angeles the teachers have long
waged a crusade against the tamale
wagon with varying success, but they
have been barred from the grounds of
of ice cream in sticks have begun oper-
ations across the streets from almost
all of the city schools and a stick of
what is alleged to be ice cream forms
the larger part of the lunches of many
of the scholars.
In the east this has been taken up
and for the last two years in many
of the newer high schools and train
ing schools provision has been made to
serve wholesome lunches in the school
buildings.
To Serve Lunches .
The plans of the Los Angeles poly
technic high school were drawn after
careful study of the finest and best
question of serving warm lunches at
very little expense to pupils has been
given careful consideration and pro-
vision made in the buildings for the
carrying out of the scheme.
On the ground floor of the main build
ing in the north end are to be located
two lunch rooms, 25xS4 feet. These will
be fitted up comfortably with tables.
Between these rooms is to be a long
room or corridor with regularly ar
ranged lunch counters on each side.
Forward of these lunch rooms the
kitchen will be located and is to be
large and airy, being nearly 100 feet
long, and forward of this and directly
under the main entrance will be To-
Gated the storeroom
The entire top of this building will
be converted into roof garden, with
the exception of the comparatively
small space devoted to the drawing
room. This will give fresh air prom
enade 200 feet long and 100 feet wide.
A large portion of this roof will be
sheltered from sun and rain by false
roof or canopy, under which seats and
tables are to be arranged.
Huge Dining Room
Those students desiring to take their
lunches from home are to be allowed to
use the roof garden as dining room.
From the experience in eastern schools
it has been found that many prefer to
bring part of their lunch from home
and supplement this with something
warm from the school kitchen, so a
system of dumb walters will be in
stalled connecting the kitchen with the
roof.
The kitchen and lunch room will be
conducted by the school solely for the
benefit of the students and the charges
will be Just sufficient to cover the cost
of maintenance.
AS yet the scheme has hardly passed
the embryo stage as the buildings are
not yet completed Just what the menu
will be has not as yet been worked out
Principal Francis fears he may find
trouble when he opens his restaurant
and tries to conduct it to suit every
pupil of the polytechnic school.