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"A recent study of the employee cafeteria located in the Food Service Center and the Mills Building indicates the need for several changes. These changes, which will become effective February 1,1975, will improve food service for patients. 1. The…

"Effective January 24, 1975, employees will be permitted to take only one meal per day. The only exception is for the few employees who reside in rooms on campus. Also, there will be no second on any food, including milk, bread, butter, deserts, etc.…

"OLD KITCHEN at State Park Unit (left,above) gave way to gleaming new Food Service Building (right, above) in 1962. At left, Head Cook Warren Ducote at Columbia Unit, a former mess sergent at Fort Jackson and a Louisiana Frenchman, sends a sizable…

In this pamphlet, there is an image of a "gravy train" and the Hospital had two of these in order to deliver hot meal containers to various dining halls on the Bull Street Campus. It states that "Patients and hospital employees get identical fare."

The State Hospital from 1955-1956 spent $2.25 per day per patient. And .381 of that was for food purchases per patient per day.

"On May 7, 1956 at the presentation luncheon in the Sheraton Hotel, Chicago, Leland E. Crenshaw, director of food service, accepted for the hospital the 1956 Food Service Award national honor plaque…for outstanding ahievement in food service…

In 1956, $762,986.77 was spent on food equipment and $123, 328.43 was spent on construction and improvements to the food service building.

During its time of opening in 1954, the Food Service building was one of the finest Souteast, it contained some of the newest methods of storage and refrigeration.

"Emphasis now must be placed on giving the newly admitted patients maximum psychiatric and medical treatment in order to give him the maximum chance of returning home."The longer a patient stays in treatment the more expensive it is for the State. So…

On September 4, 1954 the new Food Service building was completed and contained a Cafeteria, Kitchen, and Bakery. Construction and Equipment cost was $1,281,901.52. This new building caters to feeding both Columbia and State Park divisions.