New Britain herald., 1929-05-13
She Mans Mans Job as Manager of Many Restaurant.

1 New York, May ls-The manager 1 of one of the most important chains of high class restaurants 'caterins to men in this city n : woman. Grace E. Hall.
 She does not pride herself on be- {, ing a credit to her sex. She has ! never had time to realize she has blazed trails of activity for other wo- men. In fact her success. which reads like the great American saga of the little country girl who made good in the biz city. is just the nat ural sequence of events to her.
 Why shouldn't woman run res taurants for men:" she asked in rather a surprised tone. II have, always felt that feeding men was q woman's job. -s You see. was born down bn a farm In Maine where men did the rough work of life but women kept them wcIl-fed and comfortable 80 they could work"
 | Miss Hall, as matter of fact. l lciI tic idilIt GdiIS anu tooA d puSl- ness course in Boston. Chance gave | her her first job in hotel restau- rant as accountant Early farm training gave her indefatigable eaer- gy. a sense of responsibility for the whole organization and a desire 10 know how everything worked. She Learned First Hand l So she willingly filled in here and there. learning first hand all the different angles of restaurant work. waitress, hostess. steward. checking and so on. Before she knew 1t she had taken on little of the buying end of things and had mastered the stewards job almost as well as her l own.
 l Five years later her reward cam.. The man she worked for in Boston 1 opened the first of the New York chain of restaurants and offered her the job of manager.
 | That was 14 years ago. As one after another restaurant was opened. instead of getting individual man agers for them all. Miss Hall took the added responsibility. Today she manages in addition to several large restaurants, two lunch counters. one in depot. Ole in Wall Street, sev- eral cafeterias and last year opened an unique restaurant under Wall i Street in a vault built by the old federal reserve board to house its billions of gold.
 Common sense. tact. cheerfulness and health ,,re about all that is necessary, besides training" Miss Hall said. as if that combination could be picked up anywhere easily.
 ''Restaurant work is no place for a nervous person. though. think one should really like people, too, for he work is as much people as food. There s no reason why more women shouldn't go into restaurant manage mcnt, but I suppose one should in tend to stici or there is no use starting."
 Miss Halls whole organization seems to have been inoculated sue ccssfully with this Sticking" idea. She has her 10 original walters stlil with her and the heads of all the departments are the ones she hired when job after job opened. She has 8 score of walters who have served been with her three or four.
 In spite of increased duties and enlarged business. Miss Hall is per sonally interested in those who work with her. Each Christmas she holds big tree for tie several hundred children of the employees and neve, is happier than when she is playing Santa Claus" Most of the children call her Mother
 Sane Use of Leisure
 Perhaps some of the secret of Miss Halls success lies in her admirably sensible plan of life. She works at top speed during days. but leisure is leisure. She has charming pent house apartment in the East Fifties where she laughinsly insists she is a ."city farmer" with window boxes plants, a few pets and the fun of caring for them all. She makes the most of her vacations with trips abroad. to the shore. across the country She never ''potters" as so many women do in their spare time, but reads. goes to the thcater or plays bridge with the same dash that she works.
 "Our restaurants. especially our I Wall Street one have fed most of the celebrities of this country and others" she said. not boosting. but stating fact But the biggest ones like just about the same things that all men like. Hot foods served hot, cold ones iced. things seasoned right and a dash of personal interest on the part of the server. For restau- ant business is just about the most personal thing in the world. really.
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