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Show 10 oclock oyo-opoo- And some stuffy tycoons claim the coffee break wastes time! Recurring and cleaned up. Now former Captain delphia Lloyd K. Rudd and Sergeant K. Cyrus Melidians Kwik Kafe business grosses around $8,000,000 per annum, has 350 employees and 600 dealers. The Eastman Kodak Co. alone has 100 coffee dispensers which sell 280,000 cups a month. coffee r New York, May, 1950. . .The break became official when a large New York insurance company called in a restaurant cham to "jk about the daily kaffeeklatsch chaos something white-colla- office situations like this lead to an estimated 10,000 marriages a year caused by 1,700 employees on 13 floors all rushing to up and down elevators and from nearby coffee counters. The restaurant started a catering service with waitresses rolling carts from typewriter to stenciling machine. This New York restaurant chain now grosses over $4,000,000 a year catering coffee breaks alone, employs 500 waitresses to dole out 30 million cups of coffee and seven and a half million pastries a year in Manhattan, Boston, Newark, Hartford and Atlanta. helter-skelt- er hell-be- nt white-aprone- d ... A Denver, November, 1956 Court of Appeals decision, reversing a District coffee break must be Court, ruled that a 'considered as time worked, and paid for as such. history-makin- g Linden, N. Jv November 14, 1957 . . . Edward Zukau-ska- s was awarded $1,050 for a foot injury sustained while playing softball during a coffee break at The Bahb Company. The Workmens Compensation Court so ruled because the injury had occurred on i time and the employer had supplied the bats and balls. At the time of his injury Zukauskas' batting average was a healthy .345. Whether this figure was higher or lower than his blood sugar count at the time has never been established. company the coffee bean is on the march. The break that social forum and marketplace for the exchange of ideas, and has become one gripes telephone numbers of democracys most treasured fringe benefits. As for its future, we think its secure. That goes even for the day when automation takes over completely, and every office and assembly line in the land becomes simply a humming beehive of electronic monsters. When the magic hour of 10 a.m. comes around, we are convinced the giant brains will fall into line, march clanking down the corridor, slip their dimes into a vending machine and drink up. It will be known as the morning lubricating-oi- l break. Th fnd Today 20th-centur- y 9 |
