RUSSIAN CAFES.

Manawatu Standard, Volume LII, Issue 51, 30 January 1932, Page 4

RUSSIAN CAFES.

CLEANING OPERATIONS.

“Public feeling is the road to a new life,” declare signs in Soviet restaurants in Aloscow. The slogan is repeated even on‘the rims of dishes in some public places. But tho road is a tough and muddy one the cleaning of which has engaged the attention of all branches of the Soviet government. In compliance with a recent pronouncement by the central committee of the Communist Party valiant efforts are being made to make restaurants more attractive and food more palatable. While the task is in progress the Soviet reading public is, entertained with graphic descriptions of conditions in eating places that are hardly calculated to stimulate appetite. One. of the first measures was an order to the respective manufacturing trusts to produce before tho end of this year 10,000,000 glasses, 10,000,000 porcelain plates and 200.000 roubles’ worth of other dishes. Another order urges production of 2,000,000 pairs of knives and forks, 5,000,000 aluminum spoons and millions of other table utensils. The lack of such utensils not only involves at present a choice between waiting and using one’s fingers, but prevents the kitchen workers from doing their job of cleaning dishes properly. Others measures seek to assure restaurants, especially factory buffets, of priority in obtaining essential foodstuffs, to vary menus that are. for the most part depressingly monotonous, and to train new personnel specialised in cooking and serving.