PENNY RESTAURANT
TRIBUTE TO DEPRESSION. In New York has been established a penny restaumnt,. but it, is really- a half-penny restaurapt.. When Am,erican speaks :of a-ppnny, he means. pne cent,.-ancli in the.,happy day§ of p'arity a, cent was, roughly, .worth. a ;ihalfpenny.-,. The .venture is a ; tribute to the great depression. That small bowls..of..5QUp:,. fishx, vegetables, fruit and platters of bread! can be sold in New York for a h'alfpenny each seems to be in defianee of all the laws of domestic: eeonomy. The restaurant advertises the 10-cent table d'hote dinner of five courses:— ; ( , *: ! Soup Cod Fish Meat Balls | Cabbage Salad. Prunes. , Bread and Butter. Blacjc .Gofltee... [ The restaurant is a large place, pt- [ cupying two floors. T.h® l conducts it, half philanthropist . and half shrewd business inan, estimates ! that 7000 customers a day will enable : him to balance his books. Miany of i the. patrons ,do ,not ?eem to wear the | badge of. poverty, They .include well- \ fed , .clerks. and pre.tty .young steno- \ graphers who.powder their noses be1 tween the half penny soup and the \ halfpenny fish. •
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 535, 19 May 1933, Page 14
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178PENNY RESTAURANT Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 535, 19 May 1933, Page 14
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