This is likely the front desk of a Chinese Restaurant. It's besically for customer to negotiate bookings as well as food for the meal. Mostly staffed by senior staff.
A bit about the pink stack of A3 paper (or even a bit bigger size) on the counter. They are likely for jotting down customized menu for customers. Those would also be used for quotations too.
Back then traditional brush scripts would be used as the managers were supposed to be good at Chinese caligraphy. It had become a deminishing art and most restaurants uses computer printouts on smaller size paper these days.
I can still remember how swiftly experienced fingers would fly across an abacus. I wonder if any are still used commercially, or even if school children are taught how to use them?
Very rare now Andrew. Also, nowadays there are interest classes teaching how to use an abacus, but they haven't been teaching it in school since my day in the 80s. So any usual Joe below maybe 40 years old in Hong Kong do not really know how to use one.
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Re: Likely the front desk of a Chinese Restaurant
Hi there,
This is likely the front desk of a Chinese Restaurant. It's besically for customer to negotiate bookings as well as food for the meal. Mostly staffed by senior staff.
T
Hi T
Hi T
Thanks. That sounds good. Andrew
Re: Front Desk....
Hi there,
A bit about the pink stack of A3 paper (or even a bit bigger size) on the counter. They are likely for jotting down customized menu for customers. Those would also be used for quotations too.
Back then traditional brush scripts would be used as the managers were supposed to be good at Chinese caligraphy. It had become a deminishing art and most restaurants uses computer printouts on smaller size paper these days.
T
They didn't seem to have one
They didn't seem to have one here, but I used to see some front desks staffed by abacus wielding managers in the 80s.
breskvar
I can still remember how
I can still remember how swiftly experienced fingers would fly across an abacus. I wonder if any are still used commercially, or even if school children are taught how to use them?
Very rare now Andrew. Also,
Very rare now Andrew. Also, nowadays there are interest classes teaching how to use an abacus, but they haven't been teaching it in school since my day in the 80s. So any usual Joe below maybe 40 years old in Hong Kong do not really know how to use one.
breskvar