V012-120

Letter from E. S. Babcock to Mr. E. C. Dyer

Bound Correspondence: Volume 12, page 120

05/31/1890

Babcock, Elijah S.

 

Babcock writes to Dyer to monitor a rapid increase of kitchen's use of cream and "other expensive articles."

Hotel del Coronado; Letters; Correspondence; Elijah S. Babcock; E. S. Babcock; Hotel industry; E. C. Dyer; Expenses; Kitchen staff

1500 Orange Avenue

California - Coronado

 

Dining at the Del

MS-0025

English

 

Letter (correspondence)

8 inches X 11 inches

No

 

May 31, 1890.

Mr. E. C. Dyer,
I notice from the issues yesterday that the kitchen and pastry is increasing rapidly in the use of cream, and other expensive articles. You will have to keep a very close watch on this matter as I have before intimated, before you know it, it will reach an expensive basis that you will have trouble in reducing. If the pastry cook or chef say they cannot give satisfactory service without these articles, look out for others, we have had them ever since the house has been opened, and we have had no trouble in that respect. Remember that the most important thing in Hotel keeping is the rear of the house; we want of course a first class table, but we do not want it at the cost of all net revenue.
I find since speaking to you this morning, that the cream served yesterday morning was also sour.

Yours truly,
E. S. B.

 

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