Hotel Monthly Press.

Ideas for Refreshment Rooms. Hotel, Restaurant, Lunch Room, Tea Room, Coffee Shop, Cafeteria, Dining Car, Industrial Plant, School, Club, Soda Fountain. A Ready Reference to Catering Methods, Covering a Wide Range of Practice.

Chicago: Hotel Monthly Press, 1923.

Quarto, 376 pages + 3 pages ads. Thoroughly illustrated. First edition. A fascinating and detailed monograph on the various types of refreshments rooms and their operation. It includes sections on hotel restaurants, university dining rooms (including an in-depth look at "Refined Catering at the University of Chicago"), corporate cafeterias, soda fountains and much more. Another segment, "the Oriental as Caterer" is describes the variety of foods one might expect at a Chinese banquet, with line-drawing illustrations of service and foodstuffs, including sakes and various sauces. Fine in original gilt-stamped boards.