University of Virginia Library

I beg leave to submit a condensed statement of the operation
of the University Cafeteria from its establishment on
September 17, 1920 to the close of business for the regular
session on June 4, 1921, as follows:

(1) FINANCIAL

                     

RECEIPTS
Cash Receipts	$53,662.39
Allowance for Heating Art Laboratory and Kimball Residence from the Cafeteria	285.47
Inventory of Provisions, June 4, 1921	802.22
	54,750.08
EXPENDITURES.
Provisions, Labor, Salary of Manager, etc.	47,818.85
Estimate of unpaid bills for the session	1,000.00
Amount expended for alterations in building & for equipment needed to begin operations	2,975.37
Total Expenditures		$51,794.22
Balance Surplus		2,955.86

The item of $2,975.37 for alterations in building,
and equipment necessary to begin operations represents a
capital outlay and, under a strict system of accounting,
should not be charged to operation. An appropriation of
$3,000.00 to cover this item was carried on the University
budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921. We have,
however, included it under operating expenses of the Cafeteria
and because of its inclusion here the deficit in the
budget for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921 will be
reduced by this amount.

(2) ATTENDANCE.

During the first week of its operation we served
an average of 439 meals per day as compared with an average
of 880 meals per day during the last week of operation.
This increase of one hundred per cent in attendance attests
its popularity with the students of our regular session.

On yesterday, which was the third day of the Summer
School, we served 1180 meals.

COST TO THE STUDENTS

The average cost to the student per meal served
throughout the regular session has been $0.298 which
corresponds to a monthly rate of $26.82. This monthly
rate of $26.82 is in excess of the average cost to a student

taking all three meals a day in the Cafeteria because an
appreciable per centage of our boarders took their heaviest
meal only at the Cafeteria.

A record of the actual cost to a small group of
students working in the Cafeteria and taking their meals
at regular rates shows an average monthly cost to them of
$22.50

(4) FUTURE OUTLOOK

The Cafeteria is justly popular because it furnishes
the best food procurable at actual cost to the students
of the University and thereby satisfies a longfelt need
in our life. It is my considered judgment that we will
be running at absolutely full capacity next session and
the number of boarders will steadily increase. You are
in a better position than I am to pass judgment on the
relative urgency of the needs of the University of Virginia;
but it is my duty to express to you my genuine conviction
that $75,000.00 to double the present floor space and
equipment will be urgently needed prior to the meeting
of the General Assembly of Virginia in January, 1924.

The situation will be rendered even more acute if
additional dormitories are erected on the University grounds.
No greater service could be rendered our students in the
future than by providing additional university dormitories
and additional cafeteria space.

I cannot close this statement without adding a word
of just tribute to our present cafeteria manager, Mrs. Josie
W. Rodes, whose unselfish devotion, whose untiring energy,
and unbounded enthusiasm has made possible the successful
operation of the University Cafeteria.

You will be pleased to know that she has contracted
to continue as manager until August 31, 1922.