FIVEPENNY LUNCH.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVII, Issue 11806, 16 December 1912, Page 6

FIVEPENNY LUNCH.

MILLIONAIRE'S RESENTMENT. | Twelve of the leading hotels and restaurants in New York will for the! future make a charge of 5d fur bread and butter, .consumed .by any 'diner .-.at their, tables. In the -nast bread and butter have been free. "This innovation has 1 been received with varying degrees of indignation, and not a> few amusing* inci-: dents resulted (says the" correspondent of the "Standard"). .One multi-millionaire patron of the Waldorf merely stared at the crimson-letter "extra' 1 for a moment. Then, without a word* -he rose.and left the room to seek a lees progressive place further down' the street. :At the Imperial the '.first?-victim, of tlfe new order ol things, also a man-of millions, turned the joke «n the management. "Learning that: the extra charge would cover all the bread -and butter lie, could eat,—he promptly ordered a dozen different kinds of rolls and bread, with sufficient butter for all. • Of tliese he made all entire meal, andrwhat he could not eat he broke into fragments, so that it could not be served again. Then... lie calmly paid his 5d •and departed-, after haying consumed bread and butter to the value of Is 2d. Ttye /hotel men estimate that • there arc 250,000 New-Yorkers who live in hotels. The- extra charge of. 5d "a-: person _ three times a day from all these guests will aggregate about- £15,000, daily as a clear gain for the "hotels in payment for what.they formerly gave away.