alzelt wrote:
>

>> I did find a reference to a CFON restaurant in New York, but nothing
>> about how long it's been there. Of course, that would only push the
>> mystery back to "why did they name the restaurant that." The Sara
>> Lee site talks about the jingle (which apparently everyone older than
>> me is quite familiar with ... ahem), but apparently assumes the name
>> is unremarkable.
>>
>> Mike Beede

>
> Restaurants first showed up in the 50's in Manhattan.

There were CFON restaurants all over NYC when we came here in 1940 and
they had been there for a some time. Coffee was 5 cents a cup, as
were two doughnuts. I believe that the Nutted Cream Cheese
Sandwiches On Raisin Bread were ten cents. Tipping was not permitted
and if a waiter/waitress accepted a tip, he or she was immediately
dismissed.

My sister's first job was at a CFON in The Bronx. Each restaurant was
divided into horseshoe shaped serving stations and there was one wait
person responsible for each station.

My sister, who had never worked at any kind of job before, lasted one
day before she was fired, not because she accepted a tip, but because
she was so clumsy. (