McKinley Junior High School - McKinleyan Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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1 PO-LLY PUT THE IQETTLE oN fp one of the basements of the main building,-a roomy, airy, adequate room. Here the student body, with the aid of parents and teachers, operate a modern cafeteria with steam tables, for all who wish service, comfortable chairs, and a commodious room in which to eat delicious warm food, salads, and desserts. The Commissary If you should peep into the store room of the cafeteria, you would see many tins of fruits and vegetables. There are also many bins of rice, beans, macaroni, and spaghetti. All these things are obtained by our pennies and nickels. We hgure the food on a cost basis, selling as near that cost of materials and labor as possible. Many times classes take excursions to find the best food Then we buy that kind. It is delivered and checked into the storeroom. Every time anything is used it is checked out of this stock. An inventory of stock is taken once a month, at the time when bills are paid, to determine the state of our business. The Cash Registers Along the line, after we have the food on our trays, we come to where we part with our pennies. A student adds up the amount, and rings it up on the cash reg- ister, and since we have our change ready, our time in the line is but a few minutes. This pupil working as cashier is taught accuracy and ehiciency. This year a very capable boy from an A9 Commercial Arithmetic class has taken charge of the registers and the records for the cafeteria. Wheiiever he needs a recommendation for a place as cashier, or any position in which he needs to handle money, his record as cashier in the cafeteria will help him. The three cash registers were purchased from the net proceeds of the food sales. These proceeds are small because the foods bought are the best and the selling prices are low. The money accumulated at the end of a year is spent for up-keep of equipment and such necessities as cash registers, dishes, and repairs. i i T' T 1 T in i 1 f l I s L , l i ll-

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POLLY Q A PUT THE, KETTLE, ON W ' 'E HE noon bell rings, and the savorv breezes from the windows llzlve lonff 'fi ' ' . . . E told us that some busy people were zlstlr in the east basement, preparing 'XF iff' f - :- , ' ., ,.. , , . . , , an F16 g Ol the fam.shed. Out llotlt the bow and gnlw, txnrl .Lnxone tan 0.15113 l u- if fs . . . ' ' ll-Zzffl lm? tollow to our spacuous dnnng halls. Manv vears a o the cafeteria of our school was created bv the student boclv, fostered by Miss I. Estelle Graham. lo her memory we owe much. lt was hard work at first, but with the help of all, the cafeteria was established in the base- ment of the middle building. As little children out-grow their clothes, we out- rew our uarters. Our Citv Board of Education came to our rescue bv ffrzmtin E fl . . h K 3 A , I , , I ' 1 i l l 5 l Q ' 1 5 'N 1 --s., in- l E l i I '5' l 1 Vi-, E f'7 l ,bet ,germ . ..-A ,,,,,,, , , . , ,

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Eef 1 PoLLY PUT TEE-TCET-TLE CN Service Through the Unit Kitchen Although many departments co-operate with the cafeteria,-the shop, the printing department, and the sewing department,-the most help is, of course, re- ceived from the cooking rooms. The girls who have cooking in Unit Kitchen H. R. 7 help the cafeteria in many ways. When help in the cafeteria is unavoidably detained, these cooking girls come to the rescue. Out come the pots, tins, kettles and fry pans. How busy they are! Each girl cooks an amount that would do for her family, and serves it directly to the cafeteria by means of the dumb waiter which operates between the cooking rooms and the cafeteria. The girls appreciate the opportunity to cook in a quantity. Service Given by the Boys and Girls Did you ever stop to think what a busy little world our cafeteria is? At a few minutes after twelve the cafeteria helpers are all hurriedly being served their lunches and are putting on their caps and aprons to go to do their different tasks. The dish-scrapers are on the job, scraping all the dishes to have them ready to be carried to the dish-washers. By the cheerful co-operation of the pupils, all dishes are taken to the scrapers by the ones who use them, where they are cleaned, and carried by other helpers to the dish-washers. There are still other helpers who operate the electric washer, wash and dry the dishes and the silver.. In this way, almost all dishes, trays, and silver are clean and ready for use at one o'clock. The Help from the Parents How do our parents help? By appreciating the benefits of a hot dish at noon to supplement our cold lunches of sandwiches and fruit. If each one of us does not purchase the hot food, we would have no need for a cafeteria. Five of our parents have come into our kitchen to help get this food ready for us. They are Mrs. Jessie D. Hammond, Mrs. Donnie Ellis, Mrs. Louise Sicker, Mrs. Hildur Calvin, and Mrs. Riviera. T -- - r -for - 1 g l .