Restaurant Operator, The

The Restaurant Operator Burton Holmes / Vocational Guidance Films - ‘Your Life Work’ series Boy crams hotdog into his mouth; affluent women lunching at hotel - VO “there’s no denying people like to eat” - dining carriage on train. Cafe - CUs men eating & neon restaurant signs. VO re growth - $2billion turnover of restaurant industry. People in street past restaurants. CU book pages turning w/ photos re types of restaurants to suit different tastes: table service; self-service cafeterias; counter service inc. “luncheonette”; 10:03:09 Curb service by waitress or car hop serving tray of food to motorist in car. Truck drivers stop at snack bar. Neon signs: ‘Cooley’s Cupboard’; ‘The Vera Megowe Luncheon-Diner’. 10:03:33 Chefs serve food over counter, kitchen shots , food preparation, meals assembled on many plates. Washing hands, carving roast chicken, waitresses loading trays. VO re manager’s role; shots of manager seating customers in dining room. Talks to diners, discusses menu w/ chef; does book keeping; settling waitress dispute. On telephone. People thru revolving door. 10:05:53 “Aunt Martha” cooking in her kitchen at home. CUs pies & muffins. Montage Martha rents & decorates new tea room but no customers come in; on a quiet side street, zoom in on ‘Closed’ sign. VO “Martha was no manager even if she was the best cook in town”. Newspaper article ‘50% Restaurants Fail First Year’. Busy restaurant w/ attentive manager. CU list of vocational schools. University - CU scrolls aka diplomas handed out. 10:08:16 Women at home economics cooking food science class, “not interested in managerial work” - man w/ flipchart ‘Foods You Need To Eat Each Day’ teaching high school class. Women buying meat at butchers - CU joint of meat prepared. Buyer examining meat carcasses. Restaurant hostess greeting customers & seating them. Kitchen, chefs preparing roast chickens, dishing up etc. Careers. Catering. Post-WWII; Americana; Sexism. Housewives. Class. 1940s Fashions; Educational Films; Gender Roles;