A SCHOOL FOR WAITERS IN ENGLAND
A School for Waiters in England A SPECIAL SCHOOL for training boys as waiters has recently been established in England in connection with the Cookery School for Boys at Westminster. The school was...
...The advantage possessed by the young foreigner is that he has already learned the rudiments of waiting, and although in coming to this country he experiences the disadvantage of not knowing the language, he is able to make himself useful at once...
...The course of training in the school covers one year...
...Stewart Headlam, a member of the London County Council...
...physical exercises, 2 1/2 hours...
...Englishmen have, as a rule, not taken up waiting seri-ously as a trade, but only as a last resource...
...menus, 5 hours...
...Many conditions have tended during recent years to widen the field of em-ployment for waiters" says the British report on the plan...
...arithmetic, 3 hours...
...French, 7 hours...
...Hence the prompt adoption of this plan for a school to train waiters...
...The curriculum is as follows: English, 3 hours a week...
...We must make parents see that the calling is an honorable one, and requires both intelligence and education," says Rev...
...There are, however, a certain number of good English waiters who are regularly employed and never have any difficulty in finding employment...
...Similar schools for the training of waiters have existed in Germany and Switzerland for some time...
...The school was instituted by the education authorities in response to a wide demand for technically trained waiters...
...Foreigners trained as waiters on the continent have been finding ready employment in England through lack of native applicants, and it is hoped that the new school will attract English boys into this occupation...
...In the present case it is also hoped to overcome to a certain extent the prejudice against the occupation of waiting which is said to exist among English parents...
...The professional waiter who is employed as instructor, like the chef-instructor of the Cookery school, is allowed to increase his income by following his vocation on the outside...
...a total of 31 1/2 hours a week...
...waiting and pantry, etc., 17 hours...
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...Boys between 14 and 16 are admitted, and receive general instruction as well as technical training...
...The British authorities make it a practice to found trade schools in all trades where there are strong prospects of good employment...
Vol. 5 • April 1913 • No. 14
