In article <485ff5cd$0$78078$bed64819@news.gradwell.net>,
Dave Hillam <postmaster@[127.0.0.1]> wrote:
> Sam Wilson wrote in uk.railway on Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:02:48 +0100
> MID<Sam.Wilson-4D5780.16024723062008@scotsman.ed.ac.uk>:
>
> >I've said this before, but a friend of the family used to work for
> >British Transport Hotels and one of his duties was to check on buffet
> >staff to make sure they were only selling the prepacked sandwiches.
> >Some staff (allegedly) brought a suitcase full of their own home made
> >ones.
>
> So, the rule was introduced that buffet staff must never bring their
> own food to work, and this was made a dismissable offence. IIRC this
> was around the same time (late 1970s?) that buttered toast was removed
> from the buffet menus.
That would tie in with my recollection of when I was told about it.
Sam