Synopsis
Shows the work done by a large hotel-restaurant staff. Provides information on the hotel industry and the need for training in its various phases. This film presents the variety of jobs that take place in the preparation and clean up of a large hotel banquet. It displays shots of waiters setting tables, cooks preparing soup, meat, fish and dessert items on a grand scale, the woman who prepares the linen, the bartenders preparing drinks, and the cleanup after the diners have completely departed. Waiters busily setting fancy tables Cook with a huge vat of soup, tasting with small spoon, adding salt Stirring a large cauldron of soup with a huge wooden spoon Cook cutting onions Cook putting a large tray of meat into a vat of soup Cook cutting string beans Restaurant worker pushing a large cart piled with meat Cook sliding slab of meat through electric slicer Cook sharping two knives together, carving a large slab of meat. Cook fileting fish Woman piling stacks of folded white tablecloths Waiter unfolding a tablecloth onto a table Waiters placing plates around a table, glasses, knife Cooks cutting pastries with cookie cutter, placing them in small tins Large industrial mixer Cook frosting layers of cake on top of each other Still shot of perfectly set table Tall white cake being frosted by chef Waldorf "Apple and Nut Salad" Chef carving poultry (turkey), placing slices back in shape of original bird Pouring of mixed drinks on a bar Hand shaking a drink mixer Waiter carrying a…
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Details
- Running time
- 13 minutes
- Collection
- Prelinger Archives
- Internet Archive item
- 0028_Hotel_and_Restaurant_Workers_04_48_40_00
Reviews on the Internet Archive
★★★★ · 20 chickens please! · Spuzz · 2016-02-14
Nice tour, among other things, of the kitchens of the Waldorf-Astoria kithens in New York. Here we learn all about the happy-go-lucky (just look at their faces!) staff preparing the food for a large banquet. Soup must be made! Chicken must be broiled! Fancy dancy vegetables have to be prepared! Not only are we treated to the kitchens, but also the wait staff and the bartending staff, who curiously are making drinks enmasse, serving it from the pitcher. The role of the AFL-CIO is somewhat bantered about, but very lightly. I like it more of the food preparation scenes though.