Why not patronize your neighborhood restaurants during Long Island Restaurant Week Oct. 25 – Nov. 5 with a wide variety of lunch and dinner specials throughout the year? My wife and I don’t mind occasionally paying a little more to help our favorite restaurants survive.
Don’t forget your cook and server. We try to tip 20 to 25 percent against the total bill, including taxes. If it is an odd amount, we round up to the next dollar. If we can afford to eat out, we can afford an extra dollar tip. When ordering take out, we always leave a dollar or two for the waiter or cook. It is appreciated..
The restaurant industry employees hosts, bar tenders, waiters, bus boys, cooks, cashiers and parking valets, wholesale food sellers, distributors and linen suppliers. There are also construction contractors who renovate or build new restaurants.
Our local entrepreneurs work long hours, pay taxes and provide local employment, especially to students during the summer. If we don’t patronize our local restaurants, they don’t eat either.
Why travel into Manhattan when we have so many great neighborhood restaurants in Great Neck, Manhasset, Port Washington, Roslyn, Greenvale, Floral Park, New Hyde Park, Searington, Albertson, East Williston, Willison, Park, Mineola Garden City and other nearby communities in Nassau County to select from?
Larry Penner
Great Neck
