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Originally Posted by Descant
With all the talk about higher restaurant prices, I'm surprised we haven't heard more about reduced portion sizes. One place we used to go often (new owners we never go) specialized in a "tapas" style menu. We'd order multiple times over the course of a visit. I also don't see "extended luncheon menu, or "early bird" specials that are common in other parts of the country. We used to see cafeteria restaurants which is another way to serve lots of meals with reduced staff.
Old time staffing: Who remembers "Dorothy's" in Glendale? Like most seasonal restaurants from say 1945 to 1975, staffing was mostly students. Weekdays in the spring and fall, Dotty might be the only one there, cooking, and a waitress for the dining room. Local customers, (myself included as I was a former employee), would step behind the counter for awhile to take orders, pass out meals, pour coffee, etc.
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Great Memories at Dorothy's. I spent summers across the street at the Two Pines Trailer Park (lot 4). Good food, great staff (mostly young adults / college kids), good ice cream.
Great swimming off the docks. We'd get in trouble for diving off the large dock posts. Clarence, the dock cop, would yell at us for diving. Then my mother would get 10 fingers from us kids and she would do a wonderful swan dive or jacknife. Clarence would say "Mrs C, you're not helping me out here!"
Dave