Knott's Berry Farm
I was sitting over at Uncle Rod and Uncle Steve's this evening and they had a guest over who worked at Knott's Berry Farm restaurant in the 60's. He said Mrs. Knott was a bit mean. The chicken dinners were prepared in assembly line fashion and if you couldn't keep up you got fired. He was saying that all some people did was put the mashed potatoes on the plate and make the indentation in them for the gravy to go into. This guy was liked by Mrs. Knott because he could not only do that but ALSO put the gravy on the potatoes. She would keep pushing the chicken dinners down the assembly line and if any fell on the floor, the person responsible for getting them out would be fired (I Love Lucy - The Candy Factory -- anyone?). Apparently she was also frugal and gave generously to Goodwill. When the napkins came back from the cleaners they would be tied in a bundle with a string. Workers were expected to keep those strings and tie them in a ball until the ball was as big as a soccer ball and she would donate it to the Goodwill (what the Goodwill did with a ball of string I have no idea). According to this person she found a string in a bus tray and sat the whole serving and bus staff down and said they would stay there until the person who put the string in the bus tray confessed. A server said she put it there because she didn't have time to put it in the ball and Mrs. Knott said that she then didn't have time for her and fired her on the spot.
Anyway, fun, unverified gossip as to what Knott's Berry Farm was like in the 60's.
posted by Dave @ 9:22 PM
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