Hendon National Kitchen

From the Hendon & Finchley Times, 19th July 1918.

THE

HENDON NATIONAL KITCHEN

OPENS TO-DAY
(19th July) at
147, THE BROADWAY,
WEST HENDON,

12 noon to 2 p m.

Bring your own utensils.

If you are satisfied TELL YOUR Friends,

if not—But there!  You will be.

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HENDON'S FIRST NATIONAL KITCHEN.

FREE SPECIMEN MEALS.

To-day (Friday) Hendon's first national kitchen is to be opened at  147, The Broadway, West Hendon.  Meals will be served each day (with the exception of Saturday) from 12 to 2.

At a meeting last night, held in St. John's Hall, complimentary dinner tickets for specimen meals were distributed free.  This meeting, which was presided over by Mr. J. H. Sturgess, J.P., chairman of the District Council, was held for the purpose of inaugurating the kitchen.  There was a fair attendance.

Mr. Spencer Cooper, chairman of the Kitchens Committee, explained that the cost of putting the premises in order and the equipment would be a charge against the kitchen.  The Government would advance the money, which would be spread over a period of ten years.  This would be the only dead weight.  It was the aim of the committee to give a really substantial meal at a small outlay.  They were not anxious to make a profit, and people could get food at cost price after working expenses and the small capital charge had been met.  They had secured the services of a qualified supervisor and cook, and assuming the committee did their work well, West Hendon people were the only folk that could make the kitchen succeed.  It was thought the kitchen would fulfil a want in the district.  They were out to save food stuffs, time, and fuel—to economise in everything that connected itself with a house kitchen.  It would enable a greater variety of food to be obtained than was possible in a small household.

Mrs. Crump and Miss E. C. Growse also spoke.