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Rob.......They were called Comunial Feeding Centres.....Churchill re-named them toBritish Resturants the meals were set price 9d in old money.
Mike.

I don't usually use google,as people who know me will verify ,however because it's Mike i make an exception!!!
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British Restaurants were communal kitchens created during the Second World War to ensure communities and people who had run out of rationing coupons were still able to eat.

They were set up by the Ministry of Food and run by local committees on a non-profit making basis. Meals were purchased for a set maximum price of 9d (equivalent to just under 4p, about $2 US or £1 GBP in purchasing power 2008) or less. No-one could be served with a meal of more than one serving of meat, game, poultry, fish, eggs, or cheese.[1] Restaurants in the UK were not subject to rationing but some restrictions were placed on them, for instance no meal could be more than three courses and the maximum price was five shillings (equivalent to 25 pence today, but $10 or £5 in buying power 2008).

Originally called 'Community Feeding Centres', the name British Restaurants was preferred by Winston Churchill.[
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Do you remember the Cook Shop in Old Hill Rob What yummy food they sold. I went to a Motown Tribute night last week, took me back to all those great nights down the Plaza Oh happy days from Lin.

Thanks Rob, I wonder how many of your members remember them.......I prefered them to school dinners.....
Mike.

mikleed wrote:Thanks Rob, I wonder how many of your members remember them.......I prefered them to school dinners.....
Mike.

Wot a good idea.....new thread coming up!!

Brill Rob, thanks for that, wish I could 'turn back time' Lin.

'Community Feeding Centres' ... erk! Makes me think of Soylent Green!

I saw that.Charlton Heston was in it!!

Dianel.......As you know this was one of the many interuptions to daily life in England during the war....many countries were very lucky !
especially our weekly food ration.
Mike.

mikleed wrote:Dianel.......As you know this was one of the many interuptions to daily life in England during the war....many countries were very lucky !
especially our weekly food ration.
Mike.

Sorry, Mike, bad joke. I'm a baby-boomer - Have no knowledge of such things as Community Feeding Centres. Just the terminology sounds a bit ... you know ... totalitarian. I'm sure the Centres were well and truly needed, and appreciated. I'm lucky that I haven't experienced such horrible times.

No Dianel pet ! not a bad joke. I was just explaining about the community during the war.....but socially people stuck together and helped each other more than they do today for instance doors did n't get locked, and people swopped Ration Coupons either for Clothes or Food according to family needs.
A lot of bartering went on.
Regards to you.
Mike.

Been thinking about this table business and I have to say the more I dwell on it
the more I think that if management can't organise their customers to ensure that
a table booked is free by a certain time then it is a poor show

Everyone is so frightened of upsetting someone!
And you annoy me Rob with your does it matter which table attitude

British back bone!!
what has happened to it

Whingy of Wolverhampton signing off!

I'm with you, NL, on this. I need to be able to book a particular table that I like. Otherwise I'm sure to get the one by the toilet door! I'm the person who is always in the wrong queue at the bank.