Evening star., 1945-06-07
D. Cafes Face
25% Food Cut
Starting July |
Meat Points SIushed
Fifth; OPA Pledges
Fight on 'ChiseIers'

Washington's eating places,
already hard hit by the food
shortage, will take a cut in red
and blue ration points amount
ing to Is per cent for a two
month period beginning July /,
according to estimates today by
a spokesman for the restaurant
industry here.
Meanwhile, civilians were in
formed by the War Food Administra-
ton that they will get only slightly
less meat during the next three
months than was allocated for the
April-June period. An ALLEGATION
announcement, which disclosed that
lease-lend and relief shipments of
meat will be cut off during July,
August and September, estimated
that civilians would receive $780,
100000 pounds of meat in the third
quarter or IL per cent less than
the present quarter.
Price Admins traitor Chester
Bowles, in announcing the cut in
rations for public eating places,
sounded this warning:
Consumers should know that any
restaurant that continues to pro-
vide heavy meat services for most !
of its customers day after day is
operating illegitimately and is in
the black market. OPA plans vigor-
Gus enforcement action against
these few chiselers, both as pro-
lection to the legitimate restaurant
operator and to protect the house.
wife"
Steak Houses Hard Hit.
The few remaining steak houses"
will no longer be able to operate as
such, Mr.. Bowles said, and even
those with the highest point allot-
nents permitted by the regulations |
will find it necessary to serve most |
of their meals as meatless meals.
Specifically, the OPA ordered a |
cut for most restaurants and hotels
amounting to 20 per cent in meats
fats rations and II to Is per cent
slash in canned fruits and vegeta-
bles. The action thus places public
eating places on the same tight |
basis as household consumers.
Robert j. Wilson, executive sec
retary of the Washington Restau-
rant Associate declared that the
new regulation means stretching
our allotments of ration points by
about 25 per cent" in an effort to
continue to serve 100000 meals
day in the Metropolitan Area.
Serve 1000, 900 Meals Daily.
He said the cut will be met by "the
ingenuity of the restaurateur" and
that new dishes will have to be pre-
pared from foods now available.
Naturally our problems will be null
tlplled because we are serving in the
greater Washington area over g.
100000 meals daily" Mr.. Wilson de-
clared.
With supplies of most rationed
foods becoming smaller, it is neces-
sary that the rationing program for
restaurants and other institutional
uses be further tightened, just as
it has been for consumers" MIR.
Bowles said.
The new allotment is only so per
cent of the food these establish
ments used in December, 1912.
The OPA chief said that in gen.
eral the full effect of the reduction
will be felt by larger hotels and
restaurants which have been re-
celving the allowable maximum of
food.
Many Won't Feel Cut.
MANY establishments - typically
the smaller restaurants-have al
loWances that do not exceed the
maximum allotments provided by
today's action, and will not feel
the reductions" Mr.. Bowles said.
He added that no hotel or res
saurant that observes the regula-
tions can provide heavy meat serv-
ices, such as steaks, chops or roasts. |
for most OF its customers day after
day."
VIA said its third-ouarter allo-
cation Of meat would provide a per
capita consumption of lis pounds
a year, and that housewives may
expect the same proportion of beef,
lamb, veal, pork and mutton as they
are now receiving.
The total supply of all meat was
estimated at 5,o83,0OO, 900 pounds for
the next three months and represents
9 per cent drop from the April l-June
DeriO6 Instead Of further o,,ttipr
civilian supplies VIA has passed on
the slash to the armed forces and
halted shipments under lease-lend