The Owosso times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1897-1926, 1918-10-18
UNITED STATES FOOD ADMINS
TRATION GENERAL ORDERS
FOR PUBLIC EATING
PLACES

general orders public eating places
shall be defined to include all hotels,
restaurants, boarding houses, clubs,
dining cars, and steamships, and all
places where cooked food is sold to be
consumed on the premises.
The following general orders have
been issued by the United States Food
Administrator governing the opera
tions of all such public eating places.
these orders to be effective October
Il, 1918. 1t has not been deemed ad-
visable or necessary at the present
time actually to license the operation
of such public eating places, but in
cases where the patriotic cooperation
of such public eating places can not
be secured by other means, the United
States Food Administration will not
hesitate to secure compliance with its
orders through it's control of the dis
tribution of sugar, flour and other
food supplies.
A failure to conform to any of the
following orders will be regarded as
wasteful practice forbidden by Sec
tion Four of the Food Control Act of
August 10, 1917.
General Order /. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed any bread or other bakery product
which does not contain at least 20%6
of wheat flour substitutes, nor shall it
serve more than 2 ounces of this
bread, known as Victory bread or if
no Victory Bread is served, more than
ounces of other bread (such as corn
bread, mullins, Boston brown bread,
etc.. Sandwiches or bread served at
boarding camps, and rye bread con-
tanning 500 or more of pure rye
flour, are excepted.
General Order 2. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed bread or toast as a garniture or
under meat.
General Order 3. No public eating
place shall allow any bread to be
brought to the table until after the
first course is served.
General Order A. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to one patron at any one meal more
than one kind of meat. For the pur-
pose of this rule meat shall be con-
sidered as including beef, mutton,
pork, poultry and any by-products
thereof.
General Order 5. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed any bacon as garniture.
General Order 6. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce of butter.
General Order 7. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed to any one person at any one meal
more than one-half ounce Cheddar,
commonly called American cheese.
General Order 8. No public eating
place shall use or permit the use of
the sugar bowl on the table or lunch
counter. Nor shall any public eating
place serve sugar or permit it to be
served unless the guest so requests
and in no event shall the amount serv-
ed to any one person at any one meal
exceed one teaspoonful or it's equiva-
lent.
General Order 8. No public eating
place shall use or permit the use of an
amount of sugar in excess of two
pounds for every ninety meals served,
including all uses of sugar on the table
and in cooking, excepting such sugar
as may be allotted by the Federal Food
Administrators to hotels holding a
bakery license. No sugar allotted for
this special baking purpose shall be
used for any other purpose.
General Order 10. No public eating
place shall burn any food or permit
any food to be burned and all waste
shall be saved to feed animals or re-
duced to obtain fats.
General Order IL. No public eating
place shall display or permit to be dis
played food on its premises in any
such manner as may cause its deterior-
alton so that it can not be used for
human consumption.
General Order IL. No public eating
place shall serve or permit to be serv-
ed what is known as double cream or
cream de luxe; and in any event, no
cream containing over 20@o of butter
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