The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-06-02

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nave. have allowed and never viii allow
any OF our customers O commission
sTTl Ak you be said.
TAnd he did. Within a week We had .ost
the custom Of that hotel. When J. WIote
to the proprietor for an explanation he sent
back word: One Of your steaks eervep
20 me was 80 tough l couldn't get my tectn
sThe chsf probably sUared a fine steak
and plunged II Ia a pail Of cold water beIoTe
broiling to a finish and then served u to the
proprietor. Such treatment would make
the choicest OF meat az tough as ehoe
leather, and ! don't wonder that the pos
was alarmed for the reputation OF his notSl.
But that steak cut us oil from q monthly
bill Of 1900.
Perhaps ono OF the most curious cases
We ever had TO deal with was IN oonneotlon
Of the most fashionable women ~ New Lork
and q lady every inoh OF her. We had been
serving this patron satisfactorily Tor several
years; therefore j was astonishod 70 nave
her account closed without a word oil eh-
PLANTATION. Instead OF writing personally
called to see her aud was received with the
greatest cordially.
81 did not know until yesterday che
began apologetically, what a mistake I
had made, and / might never have ionnq
II out but for an old employee In Whom !
place the greatest confidence =,
This employee, it seems. had d~istrusted
the new cook ever since her arrival three
months before, about which time her mis-.
tress had begun TO complain OF the meat
and poultry served on the table, and sire
noticed that the cook had q long call more
than once from a butcher in the neighoor-
hood. One day a spoiled ohicken was
served on the dinner table and that ended IL.
Orders were given not to buy another ounce
1T was the trusted employee who got at
the secret Of the chicken. II had been sent
by the rival butcher together with a i've
dollar bill and the request TO serve The
chicken In place OF q chicken from the usual
place. But it was only b bare chance that
caught hat cook at her game and v
our reputation.
"In a similar case which came 10 our
knowledge q book was asked to substitute
two old fowls for two fine young roasting
chickens, and she was promised q DIG
commission IL abe diverted her employers
trade away from us.
"The desire for graft 10 not confined to
cooks OF any one nationality ! find. lda,,a
big Swede who was engaged by a family
We had served for eight years, came into
her commission. She refused to give any
other name than Ida.
Il explained u invariable rule. She
got UP. fixed me with her eye. n said
meaningly; III you won't, remember me
III remember YOU and she did. Apou
ten days later herr employer stopped buy
ing OF us and would give no explanation
OF her action further than to say that she
supposed she had the right to buy wher-
ever she pleased.
"We had the same experience with a
Japanese cook who asked for a commits
sion OF $40 a month. A week later his
employer stopped his account here, giving
as q reason tough steaks
Not long g l read in a newspaper
how a ChinamAn now employed in a res
taurant had boasted in public Of getting
even with a butcher who refused him a
commission. Well, the butcher in question
Is the proprietor of this store and ] re-
member the Chinamah very well.
He slid in one day after the noiseless
fashion OF Cinnamon and let me under
stand that he had come for a good sized
commission. He knew as we'll as i did
that his employers monthly bi was about
5000. When / repeated to him the in
variable formula he said with a leer: oh
velly well, velly we'll. and slid out as noise
lessly as he came.
About two weeks later his employers
name was no longer on our books. /
knew we had the Chinaman to thank for
it, but what / did not know until / read
his own version Of the affair was how he
mana ged his end 30 quickly. It was simple
enough. He served to his employer the
cuts ordered for the servants table and TO
the servants the cuts intended for up
stairs