Should restaurants be open on sabbath? How about school cafeterias? How about camping eating hall?

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Based on the provided sources, the operation of restaurants, school cafeterias, and camp meeting eating halls on the Sabbath is governed by the principle that all secular labor and food preparation must be completed on the six working days, particularly on Friday, the day of preparation {6T 354.4} [1], {3SG 253.2} [2].

### **Hygienic Restaurants in the City**
The instruction regarding the opening of public hygienic restaurants on the Sabbath is absolute and unambiguous.

*   **Explicit Prohibition:** When asked if restaurants should be opened on the Sabbath, the response given is, "No, no! The observance of the Sabbath is our witness to God--the mark, or sign, between Him and us that we are His people" {7T 121.1} [3].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=7T+121.1
*   **The Right of the Worker:** Opening for the public would deprive the restaurant workers of their "day of rest" and the opportunity to "recruit their physical and spiritual strength" {7T 121.2} [3].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=7T+121.2
*   **Influence on Patrons:** Serving even a few patrons on the Sabbath gives the impression that principles are lax and exerts a "wrong influence on both the helpers and the customers" {4MR 288.1} [4].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=4MR+288.1
*   **The Memorial of Closed Doors:** The closed doors of a restaurant on the Sabbath serve as a "memorial for God," signaling that the seventh day is a sacred time in which "no unnecessary work is to be done" {7T 122.3} [5], {10MR 213.2} [6].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=7T+122.3
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=10MR+213.2
*   **The Friday Solution:** Instead of opening, workers are encouraged to put up packages of food on Friday so that patrons can take them home to eat on the Sabbath, thus avoiding "condemnation for refusing to open" {7T 121.4} [7], {2SAT 226.8} [8].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=7T+121.4
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=2SAT+226.8

### **School Boarding Halls and Sanitariums**
While public restaurants must close, institutions where students or patients reside must still provide for their basic needs, though under strict Sabbath-keeping guidelines.

*   **Fed as a Family:** In sanitariums (and by extension, school boarding halls), "the family of patients, with the physicians, nurses, and helpers, must be fed upon the Sabbath, as any other family, with as little labor as possible" {10MR 213.2} [6], {TSDF 110.10} [9].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=10MR+213.2
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=TSDF+110.10
*   **Preparation Day Rule:** This "little labor" is achieved by ensuring that "all cooking for the Sabbath should be done on the preparation day" {LUH, April 14, 1909 par. 1} [10]. Friday is the day to "bake that which ye will bake, and seethe ［boil］ that which ye will seethe" {Exodus 16:23} [1], {RH, June 8, 1897 par. 3} [11].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=LUH+April+14%2C+1909+par.+1
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=RH%2C+June+8%2C+1897+par.+3
*   **Rest for the Cook:** The purpose of this preparation is so that the institutional cook may "have her day of rest, in the place of cooking for a family" {RH, June 8, 1897 par. 4} [12].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=RH%2C+June+8%2C+1897+par.+4
*   **Palatable, Not Cold, Meals:** Avoiding Sabbath cooking does not mean one must eat cold food. "In cold weather let the food prepared the day before be heated," and the meals should be made "palatable and attractive" {6T 357.3} [13], {MH 307.4} [14].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=6T+357.3
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=MH+307.4

### **Camp Meeting Eating Halls (Dining Tents)**
The eating halls at camp meetings are subject to the same sacred standards as the home.

*   **No Cooking Allowed:** "The Sabbath should be as sacredly observed on the campground as it is in our homes. . . . No cooking should be done on that day" {GosHealth, April 1, 1898 par. 15} [15], {13MR 293.3} [16].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=GosHealth+April+1%2C+1898+par.+15
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=13MR+293.3
*   **Lightening the Burden:** The management of the dining tent should be planned to give workers the advantage of attending the meetings. On the Sabbath, "their duties should be made as light as possible" {GosHealth, April 1, 1898 par. 11} [17], {8MR 376.1} [18].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=GosHealth+April+1%2C+1898+par.+11
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=8MR+376.1
*   **Simple Sabbath Fare:** On Sabbath morning at camp meeting, "if the weather is cool, let hot gruel, or something equally simple, be provided, and for dinner some kind of food may be warmed" {GosHealth, April 1, 1898 par. 16} [19], {8MR 376.4} [20]. Beyond this, all cooking is considered a "violation of the Sabbath command" {RH, May 8, 1883 par. 10} [21].
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=GosHealth+April+1%2C+1898+par.+16
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=8MR+376.4
    https://m.egwwritings.org/search?lang=en&query=RH%2C+May+8%2C+1883+par.+10

In summary, while residents in schools and sanitariums must be fed through pre-prepared meals and minimal labor, public restaurants must close entirely, and no active cooking is to be performed in any dining facility during the holy hours of the Sabbath [5, 6, 15].

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