Word: owners
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Premiere (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). A Bronx delicatessen owner (Howard Morris) searches for his long-lost joker of a brother (Louis Nye) in "This Will Kill...
Drinking at Home. "I'll be damned if we're not selling more ashtrays than drinks." says white-haired Sherman Billingsley, owner of Manhattan's Stork Club, where business is off 35% and the waiters have just taken a 15% cut in pay. Among expense-accounters who still turn out, Billingsley professes to see a loss of morale and to hear talk of cutting maids from six days to three, and wearing colored shirts ("You can wear them for two days instead of one"). He is also plagued by chiselers begging for blank customer receipts, the post...
...little guillotine." The Colony has cut ten men from its 100-man staff; Maud Chez Elle has cut its staff from 40 to 34 to help compensate for a close to 50% drop in business. "If business doesn't pick up soon," says Vincent Sardi Jr.. owner of Manhattan's Sardi's and Sardi's East, "all of us will be in real trouble...
...Moans Owner Henri Soulé of the sumptuous Le Pavilion: "We cannot survive...
Killing the Splendor. The same sad sounds are heard from other voices, other rooms. Ray Castro, owner of four top Chicago restaurants (Jacques, Maison Lafite, Café de Paris, La Maisonette), has canceled plans to open a $150,000 supper club, says that the decline in his business during the past three months means that he will pay $21,000 less in taxes and his employees will get considerably reduced bonuses. In Detroit's fanciest restaurants, the London Chop House and the Caucus Club, business is off about 25%, and the entertainment has been reduced accordingly. At Trader...