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Factories once piped hot soup to workers

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For high-volume industrial eating, ladles are simply too slow. Select historical factories literally installed internal piping to pump hot soup straight from a central kitchen directly into the employee dining troughs. It was the absolute pinnacle of prioritizing hot broth delivery over basic culinary dignity.

Factories once piped hot soup to workers
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