"sf" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:46:52 -0400, The Cook >
> wrote:
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>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:32:06 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
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>> >
>> >"Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
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>> >
>> >> Oh, yeah. It was a big treat to eat there when we went "downtown" to
>> >> shop
>> >> with my mother. My Aunt Emily was a cashier at H&H for many years
>> >> too.
>> >> They went from the Automat to a cafeteria style later but they
>> >> eventually
>> >> fell on hard times. IIRC, they had a frozen food line for a while.
>> >
>> >I loved cafeterias too. Now they are gone except for in some hospitals
>> >and
>> >they are just not the same as they used to be.
>>
>> Maybe in your world, but in mine they are alive and well.
>
> Real cafeterias that are open to the general public like a restaurant,
> not company cafeterias? IKEA has one but it's located inside the
> store - which makes it more like a company cafeteria IMO. We still
> have a couple of old fashioned hofbraus here, but that's as close as
> it gets.

Ah... We do have Ikea but it's in Tukwila I think and that's not anywhere
near here.