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Show Spotlighting j UTAH j Calling All Restaurants The food served along Utah's highways is slowly improving, both as to quality and service, but the really first class places can still easily be counted without with-out resorting to an adding machine. ma-chine. More sympathy and tolerance tol-erance could be extended the mediocre and downright inferior places if it were not true that in the very next town, under similar conditions, someone else is doing an outstanding job. It is felt, however, that if restaurant and lunch-counter operators could be made to understand the vital part they are playing in our postwar post-war economy, they would rise to the occasion and do something about the situation. Food And The Tourist For 1946 the greatest immediate immed-iate source of new income and employment within the state rests with the tourist business. It is entirely possible for Utahns to get $100,000,000 of this profitable profit-able business during this year, if we can sense the tremendous im-portance-of some of the factors that are important to the "traveling "travel-ing public. Roughly, the five main factors are: Good food; good lodging; good roads; something some-thing unusual to see; something interesting to do. It is quite possible that their importance to a highly successful tourist trade is in the order named. Competition Coming: It may be timely to remind those already in the business of serving food that Utah is being looked over by successful chain operators from other areas. If these scouts find prosperous communities com-munities where eating conditions are sub-normal, it is not going ! to take them very long to make up their minds to come in and j take over. The solution to such : a problem should be quite obvi- j ous. Grudging Service I Nor is the quality of the foodj the only matter that calls for immediate improvement. Grudging Grudg-ing service is terribly irksome to the traveler. The time has come when it should be unnecessary to have to beg for a glass of water, or a little cream for the coffee, or to be told, in a drug store on the best corner of a major Utah city, that there is no sugar to be served with the coffee. Of course, it is easy to blame all this on the independent attitude of employees. The truth is, however, how-ever, that the attitude of an employee will always be a reflection reflec-tion of the attitude of management. manage-ment. As a matter of fact, the worst service in several strategically strategi-cally located restaurants is performed per-formed by the managers and owners themselves. The war is no longer an excuse. Everyone knows that enough sugar is allotted al-lotted for every cup of coffee if it is not diverted into the making mak-ing of pastry, which may be much more profitable. 1946 Is The Tourist Year The tourist rush of 1946 started start-ed in January. It will not end until December 31st, but the greatest number of persons will come through Utah in the weeks immediately ahead. In the first four months of this year. V; '0 more persons registered at. '.' : n and Bryce Canyon Nu in i .l Parks than in any previou . ' . r of record. By the same i -'i, it may be expected that e than 500,000 persons will .... il themselves of these two side trips in 194G. Many other hundreds hun-dreds of thousands will go into other areas. The impressions formed by these people, the length of their stay within the state, the amount of money they leave will, however, be ereutly influenced by the restaurants along our highways. It may lie true that these places have hud more business than they could, take care of, but it may l.c well to remember that no honeymoon lasts forever! |