The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1918-10-14
NEW RULES FOR PUBLIC EATING
 PLACES ISSUED Restrictions Placed on Serv- ing of Bread and Meats to Patrons of Restaurants. STRICT ENFORCEMENT
 OF RULES PLANNED Cutting Off of Supplies Will Be Penalty for Violations
 of Rules.

r Hartford, Oct. 14-Beginning Oct. 21 every public eating place in the country must be operated according to the United States Food Admins tration rules and regulations and this new public eating house program will, according to A. c. Judd of Wa terbury,. State Hotel Chairman for the Food Administration, be strictly enforced. The usual and easiest way of disciplining an unlicensed eat ing place and compelling it to ob- serve what have heretofore been more or less voluntary rules and reg ulations is by cutting off their sup plies of licensed staple food stuffs. Those hotels anad restaurants which operate their own bakeries hold bak- CTS licenses from the Food Admin istration and any infractions by them may be summarily dealt with by the suspension or revocation Of the DaK- CTS license. In either event. the Food Administration, according to what Federal Food Administrator Robert Scoville said today, intends to get a full observance of the new l rules in all places where cooked food | Is sold to be eaten on the premises and MT. Scoville esr>mases that in 1 this country there are about nine million regular or occasional patrons of these places. It is estimated there
 are about 1,500 hotels, restaurants and lunch rooms in Connecticut and i there are probably at least 100000
 people who daily frequent the Con.
 necticut public eating places.
 l Through the new regulations the
 Food Administration intends that tn, public eating places of the country
 shall do their share in fulfilling the 1 American promise to the allies of
 seventeen and one-half million tons
 of food the coming year. Under
 twelve definite general orders the
 Food Administration plans to carry
 out in the public eating places di- | rect reduction in the consumption
 of all food, particularly the staples
 rather than series of emergency
 regulations such as wheatless and
 meatless days and meals and the sub-
 stitutton of one food for another. Under recent restrictions in Can.
 ada every boarding housekeeper serv-
 ing fifteen meals day outside their
 families must have a license and gro
 cers may not serve them unless they
 are licensed. Concerning the license
 in this country MT. Scoville said today
 it has not been deemed advisable ol
 necessary at the present time actually
 to license the operation of public eat
 ing places, but in places where the patriotic cooperation of such public
 eating places cannot be secured by other means the United States FooC Administration will not hesitate tC secure compliance with it's order through its control of the distribution of sugar, flour and other food sup
 plies. A failure to conform to an, of the following orders will be regard ed as a wasteful practice forbidden
 by Section Four of the Food Contro
 Act of August 10, 1917"
 These general orders prohibit tn : serving of any bread that does no contain at least the twenty per cent : of wheat flour substitutes, and of thi Victory bread no more than tw, ] ounces may be served to a patron a = one meal; if no Victory bread is serv ed, four ounces of other breads, sucl
 as corn bread, mullins or Bostol brown bread may be served. Brea, : served at boarding camps is except ed as is bread containing at least on ] half rye flour. No bread is to b 3 served until after the first course g on the table and no bread or toas 9 may be served as a garniture.
 Bacon is also barred as a garnitur g and only one meat may be served t I a patron at a meal. Included in tn : definition of meats are beef, mutton - pork andp oultrH Not more than I half ounce of butter is to be serve,
 to one person at one meal, and Ched f dar (American) cheese is limited l the same amount. Double cream i a banned.
 a No. sugar bowls will be on the ta b1es, teaspoonful is the limit for o meal, and then only when asked fo1 Two pounds is the allowance to b r observed for each ninety meals serv | ed, including cooking.
 No waste food may be burned bu ,o all must be saved to feed animals 0 A4 +o nh in fa+c