# A Visit to a Big Hotel / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

A Visit to a Big Hotel / Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Produced: 1916 Description The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: a. Hotel Statler dining room with diners and waiters - menu - ‘Hotel Statler, A La Carte.’ “The big hotel kitchen would delight the housewife’s heart. Here culinary capability reaches its zenith and cleanliness is ‘on every hand.’” Hotel cooks and waiters - food preparation - kitchen worker handles chickens - cook makes sandwiches. “The chef and his aides are a jolly crew.” Hotel chef and his staff. “Dainty salads that are a delight and are good to look upon.” “Luscious viands fit for a King.” Cake with basket of flowers - large roast - chef inspects pastry trays. “All work is carefully inspected by the chef.” Chef escorts member of camera crew. “Big bake ovens where hot rolls are baked by the bushel.” Rolls are raked out of hotel kitchen ovens into boxes. “The butcher shop -- headquarters for planked steaks and tenderloins.” Hotel butcher shop with workers cooking meat and carving chicken. “Discipline in the kitchen is very efficient, even the cream is ‘whipped’ by machinery.” Cream whipping machine and coffee maker. “The ice cream chef is an artist whose fame tickles the palate, rearing artistic shapes in ices and creams.” “Waiters checking individual orders.” Hotel dish-washers at work - views of dining room and guests. \[1916\] b. Views of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Automobile and streetcar traffic. “The main…

- Kind: Educational
- Year: 1916
- By: National Archives
- Genres: Education
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/fc-fc-7)
- Licence or status: none stated by the archive
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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