On 9/13/2013 8:43 AM, sf wrote:
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2013 06:46:52 -0400, The Cook >
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 12 Sep 2013 20:32:06 -0700, "Julie Bove"
>> > wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> "Ed Pawlowski" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>>
>>>> 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.
>
I used to eat at 'Piccadilly" in Germantown, TN. With some co-workers.
It was a cafeteria.

I didn't like cafeterias until someone discovered this place. The
atmosphere was different. It didn't feel like people lining up to feed
from a trough down a chow line. If you know what I mean.

Piccadilly has (had?) really good food. The cooks knew how to use herbs
and how to make sauces and gravies. Also how to cook fish without
drying it out. I nearly always got the baked cod and a couple of
vegetable sides.

The tables were bussed promptly and wiped down. I didn't see a thing
wrong with it, which negated my feelings about cafeterias.

I haven't been there in years but as a cafeteria it was top-notch the
times I was there.

Jill