WOMEN CHEFS NO USE.

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 126, 29 May 1915, Page 10

WOMEN CHEFS NO USE.

"I shouldn't like to trust a woman with the task of preparing a big banquet," said the manager of the Hotel Cecil to an interviewer. There had been some talk of putting women into the kitchens of big hotels, thus relieving men for war service. But hotel managers declared that women were no good as chfifs. "Here, in the Hotel Cecil," the manager stated, "w© have replaced men with women in the clerical departments with entire success, and I see no reason why women cooks should not be employed in small hotels and clubs. But I don't think a woman would be equal to th« task of preparing a dinner for two or three _ hundred people, and, generally speaking, a woman is less reliable than a man in the art of cooking. "Most chefs, it must be remembered, ate over military age. The chef here, also the chef at the place under my control in Whitehall Court, are ineligible for military service. A man under 38 would not have had the experience necessary for the holding of the position of chef at a great hotel."