On September 6, 1933, the Kuomintang Central Daily published such a news, because the market conditions were depressed, beijing, in order to win by surprise, wanted to add a waitress in the restaurant and teahouse. According to the statistics of the relevant departments, this atmosphere intensified, and by September 5, 1933, more than 1,300 waitresses had appeared in Beijing.
The appearance of female waitresses can be described as the first of a momentary trend, attracting a lot of attention, but at the same time has a lot of negative effects, which female women are they, and what questions will be asked during the interview? Where did the waitresses in Nanjing gather during the Republic of China? For the Chinese women to appear in public at that time, it was really unimaginable, and the bosses took advantage of the curiosity of customers and even the psychology of laughter to build a waitress.
It is said that as early as 1870, there were women's halls in the Shanghai Tobacco House, and women came to serve the big smokers to swallow clouds and spit mist, but because of their bad manners, they were soon banned. The earliest female staff trend was in Guangzhou in 1920, when some young men in some tea houses in Guangzhou who poured tea and poured water were replaced by handsome and well-behaved girls in the public. Soon, nanjing, Shanghai, Beijing, Tianjin and other parts of the country were used by waitresses, and expanded to hotels, hostels, cinemas, theaters and other industries.
Therefore, the image of the waitress who first appeared was very solemn, a taciturn, cold as frost, the waitress appeared in the 151 company on Wangfujing Street, and the young girls sold things to customers. Entertaining guests in the company's refreshment room, but there was nothing else to say, but then the business gradually became worse, and many restaurants hired waitresses, at the door of these restaurants. Often affixed with black characters on a red background, it is written that the young lady is attentive, or the museum is specially improved and new, and the lively lady entertains some eye-catching words.
The waitress has also changed from a lady to a new woman, and her words and deeds are open, and she can cope with the unruly words and deeds of many travelers. The rise of the waitress profession, Nanjing also immediately responded, the drama garden is relatively early to change, in 1934 was elected as the largest theater garden in Nanjing Confucius Temple, Shengping Theater hired a lot of waitresses. Corresponding advertisements were also posted at the door, and the instructions issued by the theater also welcomed the waitresses as a feature, and sometimes the theater garden would handkerchiefs to attract customers, and there were also some advertisements for waitresses.
At that time, Nanjing's famous tea restaurants like the Qunle Tea Hall, the safe tea hall also had a waitress, especially a Western-style café. For example, Zhongzheng Road, at that time, Zhongzheng Road is now Zhongshan South Road, there is a Pacific café on it there are many French girls wearing boat-shaped hats to do Western-style dress, she is certainly not a real French girl. It's just a Chinese girl dressed in a similar outfit to a French woman.
The age of recruiting waitresses is generally around 20, to 30 years old is very rare, has been married and had children is a very small number, most of them are from the middle and lower-class families, the family depends on them to feed, in addition to the young and beautiful can speak the Way, the waitress also has to face a variety of unexpected situations can cope with, when a writer Hong Shen in the works of the hotel wrote a person to the restaurant to eat Western food story, the waitress to him to send hot soup, guests touch the lid is cold, said to want hot soup, at this time the waitress smiled Without saying a word, I lifted the lid, and it turned out that the soup in the bowl was steaming hot. But the boss later criticized the waitress, who should apologize to the guest first and then remove the plate. Serve it to the table later so that guests don't get embarrassed by their mistakes.
At that time, the requirements for waitresses were very strict. An interview was also conducted, and the question was roughly when a female employee had self-esteem? If the answer is yes, what if the customer flirts with you? Well, the answer is ignored, but it is bound to offend the guests, how to attract business? So the correct answer given by the boss is that it is not absolutely ignored, but to maintain a solemn attitude.
There are also questions, what if a guest sexually harasses you? If the answer is laughed off, then the answer can be admitted. In fact, this also gives customers an opportunity to take advantage of it, even if they sexually harass the waitress, they will not tear their faces. Red and not red, in fact, it is also related to many familiar customers, so ah, these waitresses are still quite formal, each person has their own number, customers directly shout the number to serve, the scope of hospitality is limited to tea. The money for serving food is no different from the small two in the previous Southern Tang officials' shops.
But gradually they began to drink and chat with the guests, but people often sometimes. Don't move, they also began to have some of their own more familiar guests, and these guests only need a fixed waitress to take care of them every time, if the waitress has not had time. They would rather wait hungry, so what if another waitress came to entertain him at this time? That would easily lead to a fight between two waitresses. Arguing and fighting, so the number of familiar customers has become the most direct evidence of whether the waitress is red or not.
It is said that Song Meiling, the first lady of the Republic of China at that time, once saw the waitresses in the tea house with heavy makeup, dressed fashionably, and asked them how much they were paid each month and how much did they spend? The waitresses all said it truthfully, and found that this earned a little, how did it cost so much? Of course, Song Meiling does not know the mystery of it, Song Meiling also told them with Yan Yuexi, or to be diligent and thrifty, people should also be naturally more beautiful, which means that they can live within their means, don't spend money so lavishly, and don't be too greasy and powdery.
In fact, the income of the waitress at that time was related to the number of regular customers, and the economic strength of the familiar customers. But everyone's income is not much different, and it is almost 20 yuan per month. The rest are mainly given to them by familiar customers, and a considerable number of them have a penchant for smoking opium. Some also like to gamble, so in the end, they have to sell their hue for a living. Seriously, they don't have any sincerity or sincerity about their regular customers. Sometimes they also treat customers as wrongdoers, always saying that they don't have money to buy shoes. There was no money to buy socks, and in order to win their love, these guests competed to pay for them.
(Note: The pictures in this article are from the Network)
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