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Waterloo Chronicle (Waterloo, On1868), 20 Feb 1974, p. 10

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The Canadian Red Cross Society _ Kitchener-Waterloo Branch - 'lffil‘ So. the wonderful world of outdoors , Campers . Trailers 0 Motor Homes Campground Displays q Tents 0 Boats Trailer Accessories 0 Sportsmen Lodge Camping and Fishing Equipment filled with recreational equipment ALSO FEATURING TRANSFER PATTERNS Feb. to, Mr. Good will be in New Hamburg and Feb. Tin Elmira. The last meeting will be Mar. 6. up speeiar"meetings in Re- gional towns to give people there an opportunity to meet and discuss problems with legislature for Waterloo Town mummy _riftmtrer ot)he 'etintial Hard work is foundatiQIi . of Catering service business, . l Will Ranch of . Waterloo talks with Stan Schnider of Kitchener in front of a model chlorinalor at a five day basic gas chlorination workshop at the Ministry of Environment partyUr banquét for next Christmas or New Years, have it catered by Clip andCatharine Woolner. Woohter's Catering Ser- vice ot 400 Bridge St., Wa- terloo is already getting reservations to provide meals for the end of the year. One group made reserva- tions for next year just two days after their banquet ended this year. ' Wotriner's Catering be- came a limited company in 1966, but had been in oper- ation some 10 years before that and had its initial be- ginnings during the war. Mr. Woolner had proven his cooking. skills in the armed forces as a cook. Then one day. in the early ws, a relative who played hockey for a Bridgeport team came to him and said. “Clive. we need a goalie and a cook. Can you help us?" He cooked a banquet for them. and soon church clubs and various organiz- ations were asking him if he'd cook and serve meals for them. ations were asking him if The trucks take the meals he'd cook and serve meals to the different places for them. where they are to be serv- Eventually. Mr. Woolner ed, and come back after the and his wife were catering meal is over to pick up the fulltime, and the business dishes. They are constantly has been growing ever on the move, going from since. Besides the catering the shop to the different service the Woolners own locations. and operate a lodge in St. Agroupof girls serves the By Dennis McIntyre Jacobs. They serve a srnorgasborg there every Sunday leaving the rest of the time available for ban- quets. parties. and similar functions. , , There is only one itay the Wooiner's could have brought the business from nothing to what it is today. And that's- by hard work. Both Clive and Catharine realize this, and have not scrimped when it comes to putting forth the amount of effort necessary. Quite often, they serve as many as Loon-meals a day with that number trip- ling during the Christmas Mr. and Mrs. Woolner, with the help of their "-year old son Clive Junior. stay- ed in the shop all day cook- ing the meats and loading the trucks. So how are they able to serve so many in one dart, Mrs. Woolner said it all de- pended on the meals start- ing at different times. She pointed out an individual case where they served six banquets inoneday. The girls that left are joined by more girls who had just finished serving a meal. and they then combine toservethenext banquet.' comes in, more often than not, after midnight. the dishes have still. to be done before work is over for the Woolners. _ That kind of co-ordina- tion takes a lot of planning. and meals have to be ready at just the right time. For a noon meat, the Woolners have to be up at around five in the morning to start cooking it. Since it's hard to find anyone that will come to work that early in the morning, they have to cook it themselves with no help. laboratory in Tomato. The workshop gave water works and sewage treatment plant 'operators a better understanding of the operation. of the gas chlorinatnr. _ V another place leaving two or three to stay cleanup. One hundred and fifty sep- arate servings of meat. po- tatoes. vegetables. salads. juice. or whatever are ready togo by 11 am. . The Woolners estimate they have about 50 part- time workers on staff. Mrs. Woolner said if it wasn't for the good workers they'd never be able to keep up. "We have a great bunch working for us now, and if it wasn't for them. we'd be Mr. Woolner said that wages are no big problem. They have been paying over the minimum wage for quite some time. The only problem. he said, was a talented and accomplished 'styllsl Be ready for apt-rug woth a no-roller has: cut or choose the right amount of curl wnh .00: new Prom-n Waves Call Mary Ann and receive . our Quality Waves " Phone 744-2921 CR ESCENDO HAIRSTYLING 'lltlJ,'ht,1'ti; Mary Ann "in Introducin; Open Mon, (Cor. Webs: and McKay Cr.) 12tt Weber St. North. Waterloo 15% off for paying their help overtime for statutory holidays. The government makes _them Ray more, and when they -a'djusttheirpricestoaccorii- modate the increase, people think they are just trying to make more money at a time when everyone is go- ing outtneat. _ _ . "This lust isn't so." he said. “we have to raise our prices to make up for the extra money we're paying in wages. Otherwise, we'd lose at least an on the meal. A serving that would usually cost $1.00. we'd have to charge H.75."rtten, the government would charge an additional 50e for taxes. making the price of the serving $5.25." There is only one thin. that costs more than wages, said Mrs. Woolner, and ttat's meat. With the cost of food varying from one week to the next, they are afraid to quote any prices. She pointed out that since people aren't buying as much beef as before. most people want beef at their dinners when they go out. Quite often they are more than willing to pay extra for a larger portion of the meat. Future plans? They intend to continue their catering business and finish reno- vating their lodge. Other than a short vacation in February, the Woolners are going to keep working _.. hard.

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