ROUND-TABLE CAFE

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 140, 11 December 1930, Page 12

ROUND-TABLE CAFE

The trayless cafeteria has made its debut out on. the Pacific Coast. In California, where self-service restaurauts have been glorified to the extent of offering music with meals, this new type, known as the , round-table cafe, is proving popular (says the "New York Times"). Patrons sit at a revolving round table. Soup, meat and fish courses, hot vegetables, tea and coffee ;tro passed lover tbe counter by cafeteria attendants; salads, desserts, bread and butter, and water are db'iwn from revolving glass sections which form the moving part of the table. It makes no . difference how much or how little one eats, the price is the same. The management reports that there is a profit in it, for with the modernised form of cafeteria service there is less waste of food, fewer attendants, and the preparation of supplies is simplified. Disappearing glass windows that guard the food from outside contact are ono of the features of the revolving round table; they may be lowered at will. Space between the window frame and the glass permits the insertion of a hand to press down the partition. The glass then slides back into place automatically and slowly. The table and windows! are operated by an electric motor. Service foods, relishes, and napkins with the silver rolled up inside are arranged at intervals on top of the revolving glass counter,, I