Limited Menus

Levin Daily Chronicle, 17 February 1917, Page 1

Limited Menus

FOOD .RULES IN FORCE. The Regulation of Meals Older, 1916, came into force last December. It affects hotels, restaurants, boarding houses, clubs, mess rooms, canteens, halls, or any other place of public eating, and provides that a meal shall not consist of more than three courses if the meal begins between G p.m. and 9.30 p.m.. or of more than two courses if the meal begins at any other time.

Glasgow restauranteurs .generally are agreeable to the limiting of courses which will" have its advantages, but for Scotland they contend that three courses should have been allowed during the day. • This course has been taken up by the Glasgow Restaurateur and Hotelkeepers' Association, and an effort is ibeing made to liia«ve the Order amended in this direction, the great majority of the middle-class and working people north of the tweed taking their dinner during the diiy.

Thos who do take dinner at night, as one city restaurateur stated', dine at home and not at. a restaurant. The fact was, he added, it was a London Order, as was shown also by raw fruit —bananas, apples and grapes—being computed as half a course. Uncooked fruit did not appear on their menu:?.

A curiosity pointed out hy the restaurateur in question was that kUnr? Boup, for instance, if it contained arsy kidney, was a course, but if the ividnev was taken out of it was only half a Ct lirse. Biscuits and cheese and butter was not a course, but if the cheese w<-iie cooked, made into a We sli 1 alebit, for instance, was a course.