I'm 75 with fond memories of the grade and middle school lunches in the 1950s and 1960s in Arbutus, MD.  The "lunch ladies" were unsung heroes ... Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast roll, pat of butter, and a 4-oz dixie cup of ice cream.In the late 1960s and early 1970s I enjoyed cafeterias at Domino Sugar in Baltimore, and U.S. Navy R&D facility in Carderock, MD. In the 1970s and 1980s I enjoyed Marriot Hot Shoppes cafeteria in our U. S. Army office in Falls Church, VA.  Marriott has strict profit guidelines, if they can't net 15% at the bottom line from food service operations they shut it down or sell it off, so it went away.Many of my trips into DC contained a visit to that city's legendary Scholl's Cafeteria, also long gone.Public cafeterias are sadly missing. The all you can eat places are dreadful and even they aren't doing well.Perhaps Hallmark could open its cafeteria to the public?

I'm 75 with fond memories of the grade and middle school lunches in the 1950s and 1960s in Arbutus, MD.  The "lunch ladies" were unsung heroes ... Salisbury steak, mashed potatoes, green beans, yeast roll, pat of butter, and a 4-oz dixie cup of ice cream.In the late 1960s and early 1970s I enjoyed cafeterias at Domino Sugar in Baltimore, and U.S. Navy R&D facility in Carderock, MD. In the 1970s and 1980s I enjoyed Marriot Hot Shoppes cafeteria in our U. S. Army office in Falls Church, VA.  Marriott has strict profit guidelines, if they can't net 15% at the bottom line from food service operations they shut it down or sell it off, so it went away.Many of my trips into DC contained a visit to that city's legendary Scholl's Cafeteria, also long gone.Public cafeterias are sadly missing. The all you can eat places are dreadful and even they aren't doing well.Perhaps Hallmark could open its cafeteria to the public?

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