Comments on: Food Pops Out of Table Tops in Cafeteria (Apr, 1940) http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/ Yesterday's tomorrow, today. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 22:56:27 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.4 By: Village Idiot http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/comment-page-1/#comment-609138 Village Idiot Tue, 16 Oct 2007 23:27:17 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/#comment-609138 Hmm, guess that's why the older folks get such bad service so often; those of us who've served the public in the past know where we ain't getting any tips from, and serve accordingly. Anyway, after having peeked into my duct work occasionally, I know I'd never want anything I ate to have to pass through any kind of chute or duct or anything enclosed and hard to clean... Hmm, guess that’s why the older folks get such bad service so often; those of us who’ve served the public in the past know where we ain’t getting any tips from, and serve accordingly.

Anyway, after having peeked into my duct work occasionally, I know I’d never want anything I ate to have to pass through any kind of chute or duct or anything enclosed and hard to clean…

]]> By: Blurgle http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/comment-page-1/#comment-598710 Blurgle Sat, 13 Oct 2007 07:06:58 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/#comment-598710 The big thing was to avoid tipping in any way, form, or shape. What the younger generation doesn't realize (and often refuses to even listen to) is that many people who grew up before the Second World War are convinced that tipping is morally indefensible. They don't care one iota that servers aren't paid minimum wages or that they're taxed based on receiving a certain amount as tips. Their idea is that if you can't live on the wage you're given, don't run around begging customers to pay you more; get a new job. My parents would literally get sick to their stomachs at the idea of tipping a delivery boy or a restaurant waiter. They thought of it as a combination of begging, extortion, and prostitution, and to support it by giving a tip was morally wrong. The big thing was to avoid tipping in any way, form, or shape.

What the younger generation doesn’t realize (and often refuses to even listen to) is that many people who grew up before the Second World War are convinced that tipping is morally indefensible. They don’t care one iota that servers aren’t paid minimum wages or that they’re taxed based on receiving a certain amount as tips. Their idea is that if you can’t live on the wage you’re given, don’t run around begging customers to pay you more; get a new job.

My parents would literally get sick to their stomachs at the idea of tipping a delivery boy or a restaurant waiter. They thought of it as a combination of begging, extortion, and prostitution, and to support it by giving a tip was morally wrong.

]]> By: Grant http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/comment-page-1/#comment-593423 Grant Thu, 11 Oct 2007 15:33:11 +0000 http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2007/10/10/food-pops-out-of-table-tops-in-cafeteria/#comment-593423 Were people really that desperate to avoid human contact back then? I mean automation is nice and all, but someone still had to collect the card, cook the meal, plate the food, then deliver the plates to the "elevator"... That being said, I always found the Automat concept to be really cool: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat ...but that's not custom-cooked meals, that's more like a giant vending machine. Were people really that desperate to avoid human contact back then? I mean automation is nice and all, but someone still had to collect the card, cook the meal, plate the food, then deliver the plates to the “elevator”…

That being said, I always found the Automat concept to be really cool:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automat

…but that’s not custom-cooked meals, that’s more like a giant vending machine.

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