ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the dining facilities furnished by employers in the twenty-year period by concerning not only with restaurants in which meals were served, but also with lunch rooms set aside by employers in which employees could eat their own lunches away from their work place. It then presents the dining facilities of forty companies. An examination of the geographical location of these forty companies shows a significant concentration in New England and in the Middle Atlantic states. The actual physical facilities provided by employers, as was to be expected, differed greatly. In order to give an indication of the type of food and the prices that were charged at the beginning of the century, the menu of the dining hall of the Dunkirk plant of the American Locomotive Company is presented. It should be pointed out that the menu of the American Locomotive Company was more elaborate than that of many companies, but the prices charged were fairly typical.
