University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1912-06-04
The Student Appetite

ing the appetite of students of the
University of Missouri. Of course.
she may furnish good solid meals
three times a day at her table-many
of them do-but the best three meals
in the world apparently wouldn't do
for normal. healthy students. So it's
no fault of the boarding house keep
er.
students are the biggest eaters
that | come in contact with" said
one Columbia cafe proprietor. "They
constitute by far, tho largest part of
my trade and | do not endeavor, es-
pecially, to cater to them. You may
get an idea of how much their busi-
ness means to me by the fact that
am going to close the cafe after COM
mencement and leave it closed until
the students return next fall.
What do the students eat? Why,
iere at my place they usually eat
good, square meals and they are will
ing to pay good prices for them, too.
They rarely call for sandwiches
here. Strange. too. practically all
Of the student trade comes in here
late at night"
1t is practically the same in the
other restaurants of Columbia.
All of them patrOnized by
the students. some more than others.
Some of the places have gained rep
utatiOns with the students for put
ting out the best meals, the best
coffee or the best cold drinks.
You can realize to what enormous
proportions the student appetite
r caches when you know that four Co.
l hmbia cafes, whose trade is almost
exclusively students, sell more than
5000 sandwiches every week. This
i$ about an average. Sometimes, the
Missouri student is hungrier. Then
lie will readily get away with 10000
sandwiches during the week. This
means that every day, these cafes
furnish something like 1850 sand
Miches to students in the average
day.
One cafe patronized largely by
Students keeps several walters busy
ehch week serving 1900 ham sand
1iches, 1900 peanut sandwiches,
a1d 500 miscellaneous sandwiches to
It's patrons. This place has daily |
output of 5S2 sandwiches.
Another place serves 900 ham
sandwiches, 500 peanut sandwiches
and 500 miscellaneous sandwiches
q keep the students from going
hungry. Its daily average is 341
sandwiches. Still another place sells
2I4O sandwiches daily which amounts |
% 1850 for the week.
But food alone does not appease |
he appetite of the Missouri student |
lust now the hot weather is coming |
m and the sundaes, sOdas and cool
thinks are being added to his daily
menu.
! Before the hot weather came the
students drank coffee, sometime, and
hen they consumed six and a half
gallons of coffee at three of the cafes,
very day. But this was aside from
he cold drinks that they consumed
Turing the winter months. And they
got away with many of them. So
many, in fact, that the proprietors
If the places found that they would
Tot lose by running their fountains
Ill winter regardless of the cold.
Just now, however, the proprietor
If the soda fountain, who runs a
light lunch in connection with it, is
coming into his greatest business.
There are four soda fountains that
,ater to student trade here. Ice
.ream sodas and sundaes play for
popular approval more than any 9TH
,r thing put out at the fountains.
rhe four fountains serve about ESQ
gallons of cream to the students ev-
cry week. which means an average
If about Al gallons day. The ESQ
gallons of cream will make about
) 900 ice cream sodas and sundaes
md these find their way into the
arge stomach of the student body.
One fountain sells about 200 sodas
and sundaes daily.
And even then that student appe-
lite is not appeased. 1t must have
,old drinks and these amount to
about 1895 at the four places daily.
One fountain is kept busy supplying
500 cold drinks every day to the
thirsty student. This fountain makes
'or it's owner about $50 daily on
thinks, sundaes, sodas and sand
viches.
Anofhor n;