MISS SYDNEY LUNCHES.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 5 February 1927, Page 17

MISS SYDNEY LUNCHES.

A recent article, entitled “Miss Loindon Lunches,” which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald columns, has revealed the fact that the Sydney business girl is being better catered for than the writer supposed. it is true that the rank and file of caterers still provides for her the pie, pastry, scones, and tea that are mentioned, but here and there are to be refreshment rooms that offer it diet more tempting and more suited to the climate. , The dining halls and cafeterias .that are provided by.’ any of the big city firms have done good work. Not only have they made available food at a reasonable cost, but they have educated, the girls in a taste for more healthful diet. Inquiry from these various cafeterias shows that the girl® of to-day are eating more green .salads, tomatoes, fruit, brown bread and butter, and drinking more milk than they were even, a, year ago. One welfare officer informed the writer that when, she began her work at a. big city firm four years ago the demand for tea and pies or cake was great. The girls passed by the lettuce or cheese salad, which they termed “horse food.” Cakes and sweets, good a.s they were in moderation, were eaten to excess. To-day, she continued, almost every girl lias either cheese salad or fruit with her meal, and wholemeal bread is partaken of freely. The Y.W.C.A. cafeteria specially caters for the business girl. ; It.is now open to 11011-members, and all] day long there is a stream of people going in and ont of the big room at the headquarters of the association in Liverpool Street. About 600 are served each day,, and 700 on Friday, when it is open at night. The prices of the various dishes .are about the .same as those quoted by the writer of “Miss London Lunches,” Hot meals are always available, and include soup, entrees, a white meat or fish', joints and pudding. In addition, there are delicious salads, including asparagus, for which a, little more is paid. A cheese salad with three buttered biscuits cost 4d; but more elaborate salads cost up to 9d. Sweets, such- as preserved fruit or jelly, are 3d each. Boiled and baked puddings are the same price, and Id will purchase a portion of cream. Brown bread or roll Id, and butter Id also. Tea, coffee, cocoa and milk are also isokl very cheaply. Miss Bean, who is in charge of the cafeteria, considers that “Miss Sydney”' is well catered for in the matter of lunches. At the Y.W.C.A., as at the business firm already mentioned, the girls are learning to select the food most suited to the weather, and that which is the most nourishing. On the big roof garden at the Y.W. C.A. there is accommodation for girls wiio bring their lunches from home. They can get tea there for a- penny a cup, and any fine day therei may he seen groups of girls from the 'Surrounding ©hops, and offices eating their meal in these pleasant 'surroundings.