State Hospital's New Kitchen and Bakery Called Best in the Southeast.

State Hospital's New Kitchen and Bakery Called Best in the Southeast.

This News Paper article describes the newly opened Food Service buidling which contains two employee cafeterias, multiple walk in freezers, trash bins in refrigerated rooms to prevent smell and rot, an air pump at the entrance to prevent flies from entiering, loading docks for food truck deliveries, and the capacity to produce 10,000 meals a day as well as enough bread for 20,000 meals a a day. There is also a meat processing room containing a machine that can grind 4-5 patties per pound. Huge meat ovens allow a thousand units of meat to be cooked a day Each room is air conditioned. Meals can then be carried out by small trucks to various locations on the campus, these trucks are "previously pre-warmed by electricity at a large parking lot within the kitchen-bakery building with electric plugs for each truck." The contractors were Dawson Engineering Company of Charleston. The architects were McPherson of Greenville.The previous kitchen facility was deteriorating so badly that chips of paint and plaster the size of a "chair cover" continuosly fell from the walls and ceilings.

South Carolina State Newspaper

Box 1, Series S190008 SDMH Scrapbooks-2 South Carolina Department of Archives and History

1954-09-27

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