Hotel And Restaurant Workers

Creator: AFL-CIO

Format: 16mm

Sound: sound

Description: Shows the work done by a large hotel-restaurant staff. Provides information on the hotel industry and the need for training in its various phases.; This film presents the variety of jobs that take place in the preparation and clean up of a large hotel banquet. It displays shots of waiters setting tables, cooks preparing soup, meat, fish and dessert items on a grand scale, the woman who prepares the linen, the bartenders preparing drinks, and the cleanup after the diners have completely departed.; Waiters busily setting fancy tables; Cook with a huge vat of soup, tasting with small spoon, adding salt; Stirring a large cauldron of soup with a huge wooden spoon; Cook cutting onions; Cook putting a large tray of meat into a vat of soup; Cook cutting string beans; Restaurant worker pushing a large cart piled with meat; Cook sliding slab of meat through electric slicer; Cook sharping two knives together, carving a large slab of meat.; Cook fileting fish; Woman piling stacks of folded white tablecloths; Waiter unfolding a tablecloth onto a table; Waiters placing plates around a table, glasses, knife; Cooks cutting pastries with cookie cutter, placing them in small tins; Large industrial mixer; Cook frosting layers of cake on top of each other; Still shot of perfectly set table; Tall white cake being frosted by chef; Waldorf "Apple and Nut Salad; Chef carving poultry (turkey), placing slices back in shape of original bird; Pouring of mixed drinks on a bar; Hand shaking a drink mixer; Waiter carrying a full tray of decorative desserts over his shoulder through an empty room; Tables being cleared; Piles of plates being sprayed with water by a dishwasher; Woman with broom and dustpan, sweeping near the dining tables