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  • We of the cafeterie were the very dregs of the hotel, despised and TUTOIED by everyone.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter, but it would do until the Auberge de Jehan Gottard opened.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • Our cafeterie was a murky cellar measuring twenty feet by seven by eight high, and so crowded with coffee-urns, breadcutters and the like that one could hardly move without banging against something.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • We of the cafeterie were the very dregs of the hotel, despised and tutoied by everyone.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • It appeared that the cafeterie was the very lowest post in the hotel, and a dreadful come-down for a waiter, but it would do until the Auberge de Jehan Gottard opened.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 1933

  • The way he would stretch his great arms right across the cafeterie to fill a coffee-pot with one hand and boil an egg with the other, at the same time watching toast and shouting directions to the Magyar, and between whiles singing snatches from

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • We worked in a small pantry which communicated with the cafeterie by service lifts.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • He had worked fourteen years in the cafeterie, and he had the skill that never wastes a second between jobs.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • The waiters all stole food — in fact, I seldom saw a waiter trouble to eat the rations provided for him by the hotel — and the cooks did it on a larger scale in the kitchen, and we in the cafeterie swilled illicit tea and coffee.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

  • In the meantime I worked at the Hotel X, four days a week in the cafeterie, one day helping the waiter on the fourth floor, and one day replacing the woman who washed up for the dining-room.

    Down and Out in Paris and London 2004

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