The Hawaiian gazette., 1918-10-18
NEW FOOD ORDERS
WILL Be ENFORCED
BEG|NN|NGMONDAY
Hotel, Restaurant, Cafe and
Boarding House Keepers Unan-
imously Agree To Obey
MEET IN CONFERENCE
WITH ADMINISTRATOR
Reduction Of Butter Portion
Cheered-No Pie If Bread Is
SerVed-Sugar Will Be Scarce

without dissenting voice practic-
ally all Of the hotel, restaurant, cafe
and boarding house Keepers of/Hono-
lulu, both white and Oriental, agreed
yesterday 20 enforce the new general
orders issued by the national fool nd-
ministration, which VIII materially cut
down the food consumption in these
public eating places and which will 60
into effect on Monday, October o.
general Ret,tOgetrCr meeting was
held by Food Adm illustrator On Id and
the keepers Of public eating places in
the city in the chamber Of commerce
rooms yesterday afternoon and for
more than two hours, the large assem-,
hlage resembled n class room with Mr..
Child the teacher and demonstration and
the audience his pupils.
Section by section, each Of the new
food regulation relative to public eat.
ing places was taken up. nualvzcd and
discussed. Every detail relative to
each order was cvplnin"d hr Mr. Child
and then discussion was invited
Question Of Bread
The matter Of whe' her bread should
be served before, with. or after the
first course WAS the subject of conaid.
erablo debate. The regulation saws,
"No public eating place shall allow
any bread to hc brought to the table
until after the first course is served -
The object Of This regulation, Mr.. Chrd
explained,--Eas to do away with the
custom prevalent in restaurants Of
bringing on platter Of brrnd which
the guest generally finished before the
mcoi woS sarvnJ
Some of thoar prnscpt vortcI to
knon. how tbev w,,,Id boudI, a coso
whore n man v,ntaI LrnaL win his
SOM Anotber wantnd to kron what
wo,,Id bonnen ;f tlo ,,r.,+ bod onIy
I'VE rricc of one r,r,s. ArntLnr roint
cd out that IL the hrroJ was hrorobt
st thn same time q. .br sonn on,o oxtrn
trim tn tba ki+chcn for thn hrro conII
he soved
Mr. Chilli dirIurotir..lI,. sc+tIed
these ypxinp uupstious hv t.llinr his
hearers tbut thn u,io ,Lir.t in MO.
mulpntinr these rrrr1l,+ious vos tn
HELM win the war and for rnch rcstau-
rant and hotel kcrprr ~ usr his own
rood indictment olnur thr.r li,rs
p. PipIess meals will hr ,hr vopur nm.
der this new order of things in the
eating line; for pnests are allowed but
two ounces of br&d at oarh re"L If
one desires pie, he must abstain from
bread-h he cannot have bread and pie
at the same meal.
OnI, one. half ounce portions of but.
ter will be served ar each meal after
next Tuesday and no second hrlpngs
are allowed. This announcement vas
greeted with cheers from several Of
the boarding house keepers pr, sent.
After all Of the various new rcyula.
tiOns had been explained and discuss.
ed, it was decided that an enforcement
committee, selected from the rrstnu-
rant, hotel aud boarding house and
cafe keepersSbe APPOINTED bv Food Ad-
ministrator Child to adiudicatr nil
cases of violations of these rrul,laIions
which NAV be brought to its attention.
Following the meeting Mr., Child ap
pointed Walter Baker, manager Of the
Young Hotel: james r. Hamilton man
agrr of the Commercial Club. an Miss
Mary johnson, proprietor Of the Colo
ninI Hotel, as members of this commit
tee,
Mr.. Child expInined that the purposr
of orpanizinp this enforcement, r,m.
mittee was for the protection of the
public Nictualers themselves If one
restaurant Keeper is living strictly m
10 all of the nrovisiuns If these rr,I
lations and his competitor across the
way is not the business of tL,. first
named ppIs0n naturally suffers II I4
M to him then TO Inv II compIo,ut be
fore the enforcement committees and If
found guilty, purishment is administer
ed by thr food administration \.
pach Of the members of this rmru,.t
tee has had much practical exurr,rncp
in tbe handling of the eatinr ruhnc
Mr. Child il nf thn haIpf tbnt tLrv
are in a better uosjtiop to iudor and
decide these cases than he is.
Beating the Barrier
Although these new regulations It"
not 60 into effect until next Monday,
several of the restaurants and boarding
houses have put most Of the rrguln
tions into effect already The one tea
spoonful Of sugar per meal order is
being enforced In practically all Of the
restaurants and some Of the boarding
houses Of the citv. In some instances
guests were given quite II surprisp
when they had sugarcd their grape