Hotel and Restaurant Workers

Americans at work hotel workers whose job it is to see that every guest feels like a king to treat you Royal 5,000 hotels these people devote their lives to making you feel at home away from home when treating the family or attending a convention banquet the larger hotels have as many as 200 Cooks in six kids anticipating your arrival even though he measures his Brew by the gallon the cook is concerned every serving tastes as though it were specially prepared for you soup's on at any hour this is behind the scenes where a soup Mak a full-time job Through the Ages the soup maker has perfected his art just [Music] ingredient a scalding cauldron for each kind of soup you may pick B Affair thin clear thick with or vegetables with or without meat it must satisfy the cook before it satis fine as you and his sense of taste can never TI oldfashioned beef stew cream of mushroom or consum with a fancy name after it no one can buy the recipe yet the broth itself is available to any diner with a Yen for that the soup cook keeps his G guarded secret and passes it on only to his [Music] successors so that you may feel in the dining room tremendous PL prodigious hard work must go on in the hotel kit to make the meal seem effortless to you is the stock in trade of the hotel worker you enter the world of the hotel to shed your household chores in the dining room you are an actor or actress but this is backstage there are any number of people working to enable to put your best foot forward perhaps you take the of celery the mixed olives the tossed salad and fr beans for granted but would you also like try the asparagus with the mysterious sauce potatoes with the unpronouncable descript I of broccoli the carrots are L something your menu is an Al lamp and here are the Genies adding every gastronomical whim long experience has taught them how many F minion and how many prime ribs of beef with Yorkshire pudding to prepare how many roast ducklings it's roast lamb to get ready also who will ask for Antelope and buffalo steaks Toria in New York will use 6000 lb of prime beef and 2400 Cornish Rock hens every specialty with its own cook from the time the buyer makes his purchase on the time it reaches your table meat must be handled with particular care seasoned and cooked just so while the cook has perfected his art he knows that there will be as many different tastes to sday as there are people sitting down to [Music] dine he feeds multitudes at every meal yet he roasts best broils and Fries rare medium are well done as though catering to you alone he each item of food has its back pounds of turtle you will hardly recognize some of these denisons of the deep when they appear before you as filet of with a foreign name Supreme of Soul or perhaps the lowly codfish cake it's takes more than Cooks to make a banquet all behind the scenes Fresh Linen is drawn from the hotel's own laundry as activity reaches its climax the stage being set for you by the waiters waiters make up the largest group of hotel workers they are trained for Pur service but they are no longer servants in old times they would have bowed and scraped now they serve with [Music] dignity as equal and respected MERS of [Music] society when you come to table they will do their best to PE from noticing the work that goes intoing your meal [Music] enjoyable the master plan is the menu checked by the M Hotel who may direct the serving of as many as 12,000 rolls 10,000 eggs and 700 gallons of coffee in one [Music] day work in the dining room and kitchen is coordinated as the banquet hall near Readiness for the guests the chef adds final touches their P resistance the of rare herbs and wines are concocted by an ageless Alchemy known only to these custodians of the culinary art proud as we may be of prowess in our own kitchens we do not go to the hotel for home cooking and these Cooks do not disappoint us they top their own efforts in the dessert Department here in truth is created a world of delicious make Bel shells for a 100 kinds of fillings tartlets cupcakes layer cakes berry pies ice cream and IES French pastries out of a fairy tale this is delicate business but each course of the regular meal or a special celebration must be more appetizing than the one [Music] before [Music] cream is whipped in Vats would tax the ability of scores of small fry to lick clean step by step a banquet is prepared layer by layer a cake is made everything must be ready before the first guest arrives the places are set as though each one were arranged for royalty under the supervision of the captain there's a plate and a piece of silver service for each tasty morsel to come from the kitchen never mind how many dishes will have to be washed you don't have to think of such things just [Music] now work in the kitchen proceeds until the last minute everything must be fresh although you may never see the chef it's not long between the time the food leaves his hands and reaches you let him meat cake here this band's motto the true festive meal May begin or end with fruit this too has its Specialists they quarter it slice it dice it put compatible flavors together combine the melon from Spain with the pineapple from the azors or Hawaii and the apples from Washington and arrange countless other combinations it was at the Waldorf that the famous apple and nut salad that bears its name name [Music] originated in the poultry section there are tricks of the trade that could be put to good use at home the chef has an especially interesting way of arranging the meat so that white dark or other choice parts may be selected and served easily he carves the whole turkey at once something many of us have enough trouble with ordinarily then he fits the slices is backed together in the shape of the original [Music] bird the bartender plays an all-important part in keeping things going it is in this department that people are apt to be most particular as many as 2 and2 million highballs 56,000 bottles of Rye 11,000 bottles of bonded bourbon 42,000 bottles of wine and 3 1,000 Magnums of champagne may pass over the bar of a big hotel every [Music] year the climax comes with a dessert that represents the highest art of the chef he alone knows how it's made and exactly what's in it but we are not so much concerned with with analyzing it as enjoying it sure we'll read the financial report much of the pleasure of going out to eat comes from not having to clean up after dinner but in the hotel someone has to do it for others will demand the same services that we have just [Music] enjoyed in the kitchen there are mountains of dishes to be [Music] washed the dishwasher is an indispensable member of the hotel crew without him the work of all the cooks and chefs and waiters would go for nothing this is the sort of thing that makes Hotel work the largest housekeeping operation in the world with the final cleaning up of the dining room the stage is made ready for new actors or for your return this is another of the housekeeping tasks we don't worry about when dining at the hotel organized hotel workers dishwashers Cooks chefs waiters waitresses bartenders bus boys and special attendants in a $15 billion business one of the largest in the [Music] country they work night and day in all cities and towns and on all roots of the nation to make life enjoyable for travelers in search of Adventure or business or merely any change in the hum drum routine of [Music] living 400,000 workers in the hotel business invite you to indulge your every desire no matter how ordinary nor how seemingly far-fetched nine unions work and live together so that you can go out in style these members of the hotel and restaurant employees and bartenders International Union are another branch of the great AF ofl CIO [Music] family Americans at work for you Americans at work presented as a public service by the AFL CIO next week another interesting story of Americans at work Americans whose skill and effort help keep our country great and strong