it served only Industry or, confined its activities solely
to the City of Oshawa? Such a strike as that which has
taken place at G.M.'s plant might very easily have
ploughed under a non-diversified Operator - small or
medium sized. Though a fair part of TRS's revenue
comes from the city by no means all of it does nor, is it
wholly or even largely dependent upon the local Auto-
mobile industry. Yet, TRS has, during the three month
strike period sold a lot of food and drink there. Schools
and hospitals still function undiminished, people still
get married, die, dance, have parties and social func-
tions. All involve people and, people must eat and drink
away from home as well as at home and they call upon
food service firms to provide it. So, TRS has kept going
in Oshawa during the difficult 3 month period with
plenty of activity to occupy its catering division and
commissary.
Large School Accounts
A notable expansion in the firm's activities has come
about by the recent and new acquisition of important
accounts. This is the second year in which TRS has
served Oshawa's five High Schools and five Senior
Elementary Schools (grades 7 and 8) in Pickering,
Dumbarton, Ajax, Whitby and Oshawa. At these schools
it runs manual cafeterias plus Countervend hot and cold
buffet units. These units were pioneered by the com-
pany as far back as 1963.
Ontario Hydro's Nuclear Electricity Generating Sta-
tion at Pickering, between Oshawa and Toronto, has a
staff in training of some 350 people which will rise to
around 600 employees when the station commences to
generate. TRS Food Services feeds these people by
means of a manual cafeteria augmented and backed up
by Vending machines. Currently some 2,500 workers
are also engaged in the construction of the plant.
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It's in the Toronto area, however, where most of the
firm's new expansion has taken place. Two of the new-
est accounts are Steelcase Canada Ltd. and the Good-
year Tire & Rubber Co. Steelcase Canada located
north of Highway 401 in the Don Mills region of
Metropolitan Toronto employ some 500 people
engaged in the manufacture of office furniture and
equipment. TRS has (early December) set up a joint
feeding system using Countervend hot and cold buffets
plus Vending machines. It has also been selected to
feed and refresh the 3,000 employees of the Goodyear
Tire & Rubber Company's large four-storey factory in
New Toronto, west of the city proper. Until now Good-
year ran its own cafeteria and employed another outside
Vendor. TRS will run a manual Executive dining room,
the main cafeteria on a two shift basis using Counter-
vends plus Vending machines and, throughout the plant
it will locate Venders plus Microwave ovens. A mixed
lot of Vending machines by Vendo, MDM, Rowe and
National, 90 in all have been located, together with
several Litton M-W ovens.
For the past six months, TRS has been Vending at
North York General Hospital. There, the hospital runs
its own manual cafeteria during the day augmented by
the Venders. But during the evening and night, this
manual operation has now given way to full Vending
including M-W ovens. Cigarettes are sold by the
Women's Auxiliary of the Hospital.
Other recent Metropolitan businesses served by the
Vending division of TRS are Lockwood Surveys on
O'Connor Drive, Countervend plus full line Vending,
Allied Colour Laboratories (film processers) at Bathurst
and King streets. This latter is a day and night opera-
tion employing two hostesses - Countervends and
Vending machines.