ALLEN & ROSSI
THE BROADWAY GANG EATS HERE
This Manhattan eatery owes its success more to the celebrities who patronize it than to the food it serves.
Possibly the most pointed footnote to the always delicate relationship between a restaurant customer and a restaurant waiter was first recorded many years ago at Lindy's, New York's
big Broadway eating house, now in its fourtieth year. According to legend, a diner looked up from his meal and asked a waiter what time it was. "This is not my table," answered the waiter firmly.
Apocryphal story or not, and Lindy's waiter - and they are a breed unto themselves - will insist that the waiter was emenently correct in his answer. Lindy's waiters serve 1,230,000 persons in a year,
provide 160,000 quarts of dill pickles, slice and handle 50,000 cheesecakes, carry 20,000 pounds of sturgeon and salmon, and place on their tables 38,000 dozen rolls and bagels. A Lindy's waiter simply doesn't have time to be giving away the time.
Comedian Steve Rossi chatting to actor Anthony Perkins and society editor Doris Lilly.
[ The Saturday Evening Post - July 15th 1961 ]
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