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| Biedermeier furniture, old paintings on the walls and a civil atmosphere.
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After the nationalisation, cakes were delivered to the Ruszwurm confectionery from the sweets plant in Roham street. Ferenc Tóth, the confectioner and former owner, was stigmatised as an exploiter. Mária Kalmár, who had worked at the shop as a saleswomen for twenty-five years, and Margit Machnievitz likewise, were not allowed to keep contacts with her former boss and his family. A year later Ferenc Tóth got a job from a good acquaintance, and later he worked as an unskilled worker. In his free time he made sweets for his grandchildren and offered some of these products to his colleagues at work. The chief accountant noticed that and advised him to apply to the new confectionery shop which was to be opened in Lőportár street. This idea worked out fine, Tóth got a job and he was an appreciated member of the Restaurant and Buffet Company for ten years. He worked from early morning until 2 p.m., and in the afternoon he made sugar decorations (roses, violets, khalas and many others) for cakes at home. For exhibitions he wove big-eared baskets, packed them with sugar flowers, tied a sugar ribbon on the ear of the basket and his products won several prizes.
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| The interior, mellowed with age, is more beautiful than ever.
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After the nationalisation, the Ruszwurm confectionery was closed own for a couple of years, the 1st and 12th District Catering Company only ran the sweets shop in Tárnok street. When the managers of the Vörösmarty (earlier Gerbaud) confectionery heard about this, they wanted to take over the shop. The head of the Catering Company did not give his consent, and the latter company newly opened the confectionery on 20 August 1960. The former owner, Ferenc Tóth, was in charge of managing the shop, but he received notice within a short time. The reason was that under his management the place became a meeting point for many aristocrats. Of course, this was not true. Only one aristocrat woman, who had stayed in the castle, came to the shop with her sick child. Most of the aristocrats had fled abroad, or were in prison, or had a job somewhere, but they did not go to sweet shops. At any rate, Ferenc Tóth was not allowed to run the confectionery, and he could not even retire at that time. For seven months he worked for the Krisztina confectionary plant. He did his work properly but he got diabetes due to the lot of worries, and in 1973 his right leg was amputated for aortic stenosis. He died in 1975 after a lot of suffering.
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