In older documents, payment to caterers – formerly called oeconomi as well as speiser – who provided food and drink, especially to boarders at low and high schools, who were also called convictorists at the time. Inspectors appointed by the authorities usually supervised the feeders. Complaints about undercutting and fraud in this trade are, of course, frequent from earlier times. – See “food allowance”.
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