Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
dramamama611
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/4/07
#2Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/27/14 at 11:47pmWas there supposes to be a link? Or....something?
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#2Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 12:23am
It's embedded right in the message for me.
It's a video.
Direct link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NVM_JGCfFsM
Liza & Larry
#3Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 9:51am
There will be a lunch mob with "Liza and Larry" tomorrow at the Cafe Edison tomorrow, SATURDAY NOVEMBER 29 at 1:00 PM.
Small Biz Saturday Lunch Mob for Cafe Edison--with "Liza" and "Larry"
#4Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 10:01am"I can see Mickey Rooney's face in this Matzo ball" - LOL.
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#5Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 12:23pm
Boneless sardines - Boneless!
I will totally be there!
#6Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 1:59pmand the subtitle of this video is "Two People Past Their Sell-By Date Try to Save a Restaurant Past Its Sell-By Date"
#8Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 3:44pmHey Hogan's Hero--who peed on your matzoh balls?
#9Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 4:26pm
no one. I just have a different perspective on the place you have adopted as a cause.
Side point: have you ever asked them why they don't just move to another location instead of shutting down? I think the answer would be telling...
#10Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:18pm
I imagine because the cost of moving/setting up shop would be astronomical, not to mention the rent will be double what they are paying.
Financially, they have been set up to make x amount a month to cover x amount in bills.
They are always filled up when I go, but the prices are in place to keep things running smoothly.
Moving would no doubt require a loan and a drastic price increase in food at the new place.
It comes down to reasonable expectation.
They were told they had a place to stay and now they don't.
Maybe if their was more warning, it could have helped.
But moving a mom-pop restaurant in the times square area is unrealistic.
#11Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 5:55pmMeyer, all of these are apologies for a place that, to anyone other than the hardcore group that is in love with the place, has not invested in its future. It is a place that has no street appeal, in any area where the rent is largely based on street appeal, and that has made no effort to remain competitive. There are plenty of diners in the area that are got losing their leases. Financially, the Edison was set up to make money for its owners, not to remain viable. And it may have been filled when you were there but business has not been good. They were told they had a place to stay? As what? A dingy subsidized nostalgia haunt that couldn't even be troubled to paint? As a place complacent enough to serve mediocre food? Sorry, but I see something quite different than you do.
#12Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 6:15pm
We do see things quite differently. I only "discovered" Cafe Edison a few years ago and am a fan. I recommend to visitors and the NYC Diner is a dying breed, so i don't understand most of what you just said.
There isn't a small group of people that frequent this place. It's always packed when I go and mediocre food is an opinion.
I live between Kansas City and NYC and am at the Cafe often.
I don't "do" generalizations. "Business has not been good" also applies to the less-touristy fall months when school has started and the holidays have not yet arrived. Any restaurant and many broadway grosses reflect this.
Most of what you are saying holds no water and is circumstantial.
What I can't understand is someone practically rallying for a closing, putting people out of work and replacing an old restaurant with yet another overpriced stuffy one in a neighborhood already overflowing with tourist traps.
If you don't like the place, that's one thing. But supporting job loss because your matzoh ball broke into pieces once is petty.
#13Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 11:19pmAnd who exactly are the "Two People Past Their Sell-By Date" you refer to anyway, Mr. Clueless?
#14Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/28/14 at 11:39pm
Meyer-I don't intend anything I say to undercut your genuine enthusiasm for the place. A few quick points: diners a dying breed? I count 23 within a short walk of the Edison. Always packed? Sorry, no. And if it were, they could pay the rent. Business not good? I am talking about the Edison, not anything else. Restaurants are thriving in the area. My "rallying" has been in reaction to the "rallying" on the other side. Just as we can't be sentimental about shows closing and people being put out of work, we can't view restaurants that way. Mediocrity? Look at Yelp. 3 stars, that defines mediocre. Look at Zagats. Look hard. I'm sorry you are losing something you love.
PalJoey-I think it is pretty obvious who the 2 people are.
#15Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/29/14 at 12:02am
I think you think that was really Liza and Larry King!
You didn't even watch it...
#16Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/29/14 at 12:16ami watched, i know it was Pedi and the guy portraying the 2 who are past their sell by dates. which, to me, makes the sketch past its sell by date too.
#17Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/29/14 at 12:19amYou must be awfully fun at parties.
#18Liza and Larry King: SAVE THE CAFE EDISON!
Posted: 11/29/14 at 1:23amI am, as long as Larry King and Liza aren't there.
