Sage advice
Posted on April 25, 2008
Filed Under General, Instruction |
In the 3rd edition of his only slightly dated handbook, The American Waiter - Instructions in American and European Plan Service, Banguet and Private Party Work (The Hotel Monthly Press, 1914), John B. Goins provides this sage advice.
“Shirts should be changed as often as twice a week; collars four times. In winter, underwear should be changed twice a week, and in summer, daily. The reason for this is evident, as from the nature of a waiter’s work is it impossible not to perspire; and a garment saturated in perspiration is unfit to wear another time in the dining-room.”
The more things change, the more they stay the same…
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