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i ' :: !: J: 7 Cooking institutes teach art of service dovid wore omlt In this space last week, as some may recall, I complained about the appalling lack of fine service to be found in the greater number of American restaurants. Since then, several people have chided me for my obsession with good service and have suggested that Americans cannot give as good service as Europeans because they are not "born into the trade." This is apologistic balderdash. The service one experiences abroad is made, not born. It is spawned in schools set up for the express purpose of "training a professionally competent and morally impeccable younger generation of hoteliers and restaurateurs." These words were taken from the catalog of the Bellevoir School of Zurich, Switzerland, a school that specializes in individualized training of students, both male and female, in the theory and practice of serving. The school is situated in a mansion close to Lake Zurich. A first-class restaurant is attached to it, to serve as a training area for the students. The students are of all ages and nationalities, since even experienced innkeepers return from the world over for refresher courses. By the time the students are done with the school, they know how to cook a simple lunch or a banquet, make menus, wait on tables, carve meat before the guests, select, chill, decant and serve vintage wines, mix cocktails, buy food, 13th & P Under the Douglas III CHI- PHI'S! Terrariums Beer Steins Bring your Co-op ID 10 off on any item for 1 week. II iinmiini liiMiilli ir'i lniiriii O WHITMAN 50c COIN BOARDS ALWAYS JUST 39c , AjoIns. "-.suinps - Vr, ' " C' .iii'l I'" I i', i, 111, , I ! ) . , v A spy For the Photographer... 101 EXPERIMENTS IN PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHY HINTS & TIPS LIFE LIBRARY OF PHOTOGRAPHY THE CAMERA LIGHT AND FILM THE PRINT COLOR THE ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY PHOTOGRAPHING NATURE THE GREAT THEMES PHOTOJOURNALISM PHOTOGRAPHING CHILDREN DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERS ANSEL ADAMS' BASIC PHOTO SERI ES CAMERA & LENS The Crcainc Apnum, It THE NEGATIVE I xpouire and Di i cIhihk nl THE PRINT Contact I'niitmy A i.iiluryjiix NATURAL-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY ARTIFICIAL-LIGHT PHOTOGRAPHY Open 8-5. Mond.jy -Saturd.-iy 1135 R 432-0111 mt nrenare bills, do bookkeeping, look after the silver, linen and furnishings and how to properly handle beer. Throughout all of this instruction is a constant and firm stress on being polite, clean, hard working cooperative and, above all, pleasant. Each student is expected to keep a well-ordered notebook. This is considered part of the curriculum because the student keeps it for life, referring to it constantly in his profession. The students wear uniforms to classes; white coats for the cooks, black coat and pants for the waiters, black dress and apron' for the waitresses. They are downgraded if the uniforms are not clean and well-pressed. These conditions may sound a trifle harsh, but the results are unmistakably present. Bellevoir School, and other schools like it, produce the cream of the world's waiters and restaurant staffs. Last week I stated that I believed there was a solution to the problem of bad service in our restaurants. This is my solution: the establishment of more schools devoted to the teaching of pioper hotel and restaurant management. A tradition of excellence in service cannot be established without education in the art, and without a tradition to build upon the service in American restaurants will stay at the present substandard level. doily nebroskon Lditor m-Chief. M.chael (O.J.) Nulson. Managing Editor: Mary Voboril. News Editor: Tim Anderson. Special Editor: Ken Kirk. Sports Editor: Bill Bennett. Photography Chief: Gail Folda. Night News Editor: Cheryl Westcott. Editorial Assistant: l.ori Clepper. The Daily Nebraskan is written, edited and managed by students at the University of Nebraska Lincoln. It is etlitorially independent of the University faculty, administration anc. student body. The Daily Nebraskan is published by the Publications Committee on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and Friday throughout the fall and spring semesters except holidays and vacations. Copyright 1973, The Daily Nebraskan. Material may be reprinted without permission if attributed to the Daily Nebraskan, excepting material covered by another copyright. 'Jp :ond c lass postag paid at Lincoln, Nebraska. Address: The Daily Nebraskan34 Nebraska Unioni4tn & h Sri --VLincoln, Nebr. 68508 Telephone: 4024722088. A CIGAR IS A FRIEND Few companions have the warmth of a cigar. Few have the taste or the glow. I Cliff's Smoke Shop has the most varied and complete selction of cigars in Lincoln for those who seek that smokey, pleasant fellowship. Come to Cliff's, 12th & '0'. Meet our good friends. ClUVs Smoke Shop WITH THIS A I) ON Science, Math, Photography, and Architecture Books this ( ounm wn.i. m: honored NOW THROUGH Saturday, llkademia Wtl M '( li' I'n -mi-?. Wi'v, nin.il Hunt- ! ,hi i 1 9m .'w page 2 daily nebraskan thursday, September 27, 1973