EV.Č. 022 · RaJ PLZEŇ
Restaurace a jídelny — 'Restaurants and Canteens', the state trust that ran nearly every dining room in the republic. Each district directorate printed its own mats, and every single one wished you dobrou chuť: good appetite, comrade. They meant it, mostly.
Subject: table culture. The enterprise RaJ operates 14,000 establishments. Each is to display the emblem of its district. The customer is to be greeted, seated, and wished a good appetite. The soup is to arrive warm. Fulfilment of the plan: 103 per cent.
The trust that fed the republic
West Bohemia reporting: Plzeň spelled in ransom-note letters, the Domažlice gate tower, Cheb with its dotted glass, and České Budějovice's Meat Shops — a Gothic butcher's hall turned beer hall, still pouring today.
EV.Č. 022 · RaJ PLZEŇ
EV.Č. 023 · RaJ DOMAŽLICE
EV.Č. 024 · RESTAURACE CHEB
EV.Č. 025 · RaJ KOLÍN
EV.Č. 026 · RESTAURACE TEPLICE
EV.Č. 027 · MASNÉ KRÁMY · Č. BUDĚJOVICEThe dragon of Trutnov — pub U Draka — is the finest beast in the file, black as the Krkonoše night. Svitavy went mid-century modern; Písek squared its glass; Vyškov kept a folk jug. One trust, a hundred hands.
EV.Č. 028 · RaJ SVITAVY
EV.Č. 029 · RaJ TRUTNOV · U DRAKA
EV.Č. 030 · RaJ ÚSTÍ
EV.Č. 031 · RaJ PÍSEK
EV.Č. 032 · RaJ VYŠKOV
EV.Č. 033 · BÍLÁ RŮŽE · RaJ KLATOVY
EV.Č. — NÁDRAŽÍRestaurace Nádraží Praha střed — the station restaurant, Prague Central. 'We look forward to seeing you again,' says the mat, over a drawing of the concourse. Half the country's farewells happened over this beer.
The good-appetite series — the same wish set nine ways, in two colourways, with beer, bottle, orange or tray. State graphic design at its most benign: nothing to sell you, since there was nowhere else to go, so the mat simply wishes you well.
EV.Č. 034 · PŘEJÍ DOBROU CHUŤ · MODRÁ
EV.Č. 035 · PŘEJÍ DOBROU CHUŤ · ZELENÁ
EV.Č. 036 · DOBROU CHUŤ · SKLENICE
EV.Č. 037 · DOBROU POHODU · LÁHEV
EV.Č. 038 · PŘEJEME VÁM POHODU
EV.Č. 039 · PŘÍJEMNĚ VÁS OSVĚŽÍ
EV.Č. 040 · PRAHA 5 · DOBROU CHUŤ
EV.Č. 041 · OSVĚŽENÍ · POMERANČ
EV.Č. 042 · DOBROU CHUŤ · TÁCCoffee and cake for the ladies, a chef-boy for the children, and the trust's boldest instruction: NEVAŘTE DOMA — don't cook at home, our cooks cook for you. The canteen state, in six exhibits.
EV.Č. 043 · KÁVA A DORT
EV.Č. 044 · KUCHTÍK · PŘEJÍ DOBROU CHUŤ
EV.Č. 045 · RaJ VYSOKÉ MÝTO
EV.Č. 046 · NEVAŘTE DOMA!
EV.Č. 047 · MOTOREST
EV.Č. 048 · TĚŠÍME SE NA SHLEDANOUThe houses of culture — every town got one, every one had a restaurant, and the mats came in Society-Deco lettering. R8 is pure 1970s: a monogram, a circle, nothing else. Normalizace minimalism.
EV.Č. 049 · SPOLEČENSKÝ DŮM · VRŠOVICE
EV.Č. 050 · SPOLEČENSKÝ DŮM · LANŠKROUN
EV.Č. 051 · DŮM KULTURY · SMÍCHOV
EV.Č. 052 · RaJ PRAHA
EV.Č. 053 · RaJ PRAHA 2
EV.Č. 054 · RESTAURACE R8Three White Roses — Poděbrady twice and Strakonice once, because every spa town wanted one. The Přeštice piglet raises a glass to its own schnitzel, and Sokolov commemorates a July weekend in 1967 nobody else remembers.
EV.Č. 055 · BÍLÁ RŮŽE · PODĚBRADY
EV.Č. 056 · BÍLÁ RŮŽE · HOLUBICE
EV.Č. 057 · BÍLÁ RŮŽE · STRAKONICE
EV.Č. 058 · RaJ PŘEŠTICE · PRASÁTKO
EV.Č. 059 · RESTAURACE SOKOLOV · 1967
EV.Č. 060 · RaJ HODONÍN