In an effort to lull future victims of the genocide into the belief that if all the existing prohibitions and restrictions on the Jewish population were observed, their persecution would not escalate any further, a certain number of restaurants, barbershops and medical clinics were allowed to be frequented by persons identified as Jews, as long as they were clearly and physically separated from "Aryan" customers.
Not only Jewish, but also non-Jewish restaurateurs competed for such a license. People longing for the illusion of normal life were not embarrassed to pay well for it. The main problem with food coupons, which were very limited for Jewish residents, was solved by changing restaurants into cafés, often serving only substitute coffee and nothing else. For most customers, anyway, the main thing was to be able to be in a different space from their own homes, in the company of similarly afflicted people with whom they could talk in peace.
Mr Fischer's business in the Kinsky Palace, called the Coffee Buffet, advertised, like others, in the Jews' Gazette, the only newspaper that residents of the Protectorate designated as Jews were allowed to read. In the picture you can see the receipt for the advertisement and the printed advertisement.
The existence of restaurants, cafés or barbershops with separate sections reserved for Jews did not last long. The provision of any services to Jews was gradually banned. Only the Jewish newsletter, turning into a bulletin with information about further anti-Jewish orders and prohibitions, continued to be published. Even at a time when all the Jews of Prague had long since been deported.