Excerpt from The Clifford M. Lewis American Plan Check System: Adapted for Use of American Plan Hotels in General; For the Service of Table D'hote Meals in Restaurants, and for Banquets The American Plan Check system is a system by which the guest at an American plan hotel writes his order on a specially prepared check at the time he sits down to the table, or prior to that time. The headwaiter will suggest, when a guest gives a dinner party, or has an extra diner, or wants an early breakfast, or any meal served at a stated time, that the guest can secure a check and bill of fare prior to the meal hour, writing the order in full, thereby being relieved of any further thought of the meal until it is ready to be served. The waiter or headwaiter places before the guest an American plan check, a pencil and the menu card. The guest then writes on the check the entire order for himself. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.