The broad ax., 1918-12-21


+bs same characteristic slowness act
inv ike a "hoodoo" in restaurants
I'll, by our people. Of course, there
are few exceptions, no rule is iron
clad. Some or all of the big Cafes
Tx. one or two around 31st and
95fb streets, / might mention, are
ouc:k in service, and on the dot in
every minute detail, but the little
los believes where you can't get
what you want to eat all the time,
and get it only when you have wait
ID fifteen to twenty minutes, dis
cussed everything worth mentioning,
lost your religion, your appetite, your
temper. and sworn by all that is good
and noble that you never will enter
he place again when 10 the waiter ap-
nruaches you with home cooking fit
70 please the relish of the most fas-
tiiiOus.
1t Is not the food, how it is cook
ed. far from it, that we are writing
this article to complain about. 1t is
the slow Obidiah movement and the
absolute disrespect that most of the
people who run these los little res
taurants have for a hungry mans
time. Time, and the loss of it. The
feature of complaint is herein writ
ten with the hope that it may spur
these Keepers into the thought that
thousands of would be patrons who
have to make early time are driven
in desperation to eat down town their
morning meals.
If you are in hurry you dare not
speak of it. 1t won't win you any
friends, besides, some kind of colo
GUY Immediately begins over the
cook pots, 81 amt going to rush my
self to death for no Negro" when
did YOU ever see a Negro whose time
is 50 important as all that" If he's
in such a hurry what'd he come here
for any way?" Deed / amt going
TO kill myself fixing things for no
body"
Statements like this of course, are
the results of ignorance, and pre-
judice and do not belong to the cata-
lOgue of the business element, and
yet this is what you hear on every
hand
When you enter a restaurant you
pick up the bill of fare, or you are
told in a polite manner by the waiter
whether you can have this or that.
He Immediately gives your order to
the man in authority behind the pc
tition, and God alone knows what
he's doing with your order all the
time he takes before you round your
self into any comfort at the table
to eat your meal. Why does it take
50 long? Why don't they serve you
quickly?
1t is true that many of these little |
places give the best meals to be had
for the price, but OH heavens the
tine that is lost can never be made
up on this earth.
Now, speaking about time, time is
Just as important to one man as an
other. All men do not attach i'm
pOrtance to it, for it seems to hang
heavy on many a poor fools heart,
who doesn't do anything, don't want
to do anything, wouldn't do any
thing if he could, don't want any
thing, isn't anything, and wouldn't
be anything, and yet there are thou
sands of young men and women who
patrOnize restaurants whose time is
considered just as important as
money, and who view the serious side
Of life sincerely, ambitious to do, to
have, and to be just like any other
EOup Of cultured civilization.
1t IS to this element who work
OOTn town that these eating places
could cater to, thrive and get on
easy footing, just by quick service.
In business affairs we should study
out for ourselves the principles and
rules applied to successful people.