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The Restaurant Operator (1946)

1946 · Ephemeral film · 10 min

Synopsis

Jobs in food service.

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Running time
10 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives
Internet Archive item
Restaura1946

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★★★★ · Poor Aunt Martha! · Spuzz · 2004-04-28

Once again, for all who don't know, I'll always jump through hoops to see anything related to food, as they provide probably the more hilarious films here. This 'Your Life's Work' film doesnt dissapoint as it shows all the hardships of running a restaraunt! We begin amazingly, by showing a woman with the largest bouffant possible chowing down. The narrator explains to us that everyone likes to eat, but everyone doesn't like the bother of preparing it! So that's why we have restaraunts. A GREAT profile of what kind of restaraunts were availible in the 1950's are then shown, with great names…

★★★★ · A Daunting Task · JayKay49 · 2012-01-28

It's got to be the most difficult area of work for what you earn. The one requirement they fail to mention - especially wrt Aunt Martha is FIRST off, you MUST work in a restaurant before you even consider a career in it. It almost doesnt matter what you do....you just have to get a grasp of all that goes into all that preparation, service, healthy premises, and above all...the books. Bet Aunt Martha never worked in a restaurant...from the looks of things, she just had too much money jangling around in her purse and not enough friends and relatives to cook stuff for. 50 - 70 percent of…