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Show Caterer Serves 6,500,000 Meals Every Month to Federal Employees. WASHINGTON. Seven hundred twenty million paper cupfuls of coffee cof-fee is a lot of coffee In any language, lan-guage, but that's only one item dispensed dis-pensed by the Welfare and Recreational Recrea-tional Association of Public Buildings Build-ings and Grounds, the world's largest larg-est food caterer! j The association, ruled by the attorney at-torney general as "a government-controlled government-controlled agency," contracts to pre-' pare and serve meals to federal employees em-ployees in 59 cafeterias located in government buildings, ranging from the huge Pentagon building down to the Senate Office building. Serving 6,500,000 meals a month in metropolitan Washington, the .Welfare and Recreational association associa-tion is one of the most efficiently organized agencies in the capital. Largest Users of Paper Cups. The association is the largest single sin-gle user of paper cups and plates in the world. Last year it used 930,900,000 paper cups, and 101,000,-000 101,000,-000 paper plates in its mass feeding project. Some idea of the staggering quantities quan-tities of food handled this past year .by the association may be obtained from these figures: 4,000,000 pounds of all kinds of meat, 600,000 pounds of cheese, 2,066,820 pounds of butter, 960,000 pounds of shortening, 63,600,-000 63,600,-000 paper cupfuls of milk, 126,492 loaves of bread. 8,000,000 pounds of canned fruits and vegetables, 3,000,-000 3,000,-000 pounds of frozen fruits and vegetables, vege-tables, 240,000 pounds of dried fruits, 4,320,000 pounds of sugar, 240,000 gallons gal-lons of fresh cream, 240,000 pounds of fresh fish. The Welfare and Recreational association, as-sociation, though Incorporated in 1926, is the result of an earlier, attempt at-tempt during the First World war. The contractor at that time, however, how-ever, failed to meet specifications. The present organization is headed head-ed by Capt F. W. Hoover, and the elected trustees are all men in responsible re-sponsible government positions. Bainbrldge K. Foster, chief of the purchase and supply division, is the dynamo around whom the entire feeding system revolves. Inspected Dally. Captain Hoover inaugurated the current "health and sanitation program," pro-gram," according to Foster, placing each cafeteria under the management manage-ment of a college-trained dietitian. "Army, navy and marine authorities authori-ties are exacting in their inspections daily," he said, "because the feeding feed-ing problem in overcrowded Washington Wash-ington is most important to health and morale. Like ourselves, these inspectors are' out to prevent epidemics, epi-demics, and virtually insist on food being served in paper. "For this reason," said Foster, "we conducted a detailed research program, and discovered that paper cups, containers and dishes are more sanitary, end labor problems, eliminate elim-inate breakage, are far more convenient, con-venient, and save space and materials." |