The Four Star Diner

Most thursday nights we have executive board meetings at a local pub, then head over to the Four Star Diner in Union City, NJ. The food is top notch, offering the usual wide variety of cuisine from burgers to Italian to the odd Asian dish. Feel like having a night cap? Who doesn't! They have a full bar to whip up any late night drink.

Now before you start thinking we have some kind of business agreement with them regarding cross-branding and the like, let me get to the real reason I bring this place up. Every time we've been there we get a chuckle from the placemats.

The placemat provides a nice history of the diner business, as well as some great economic stats so you can compare the price of a car or a gallon of gas going all the way back to 1910. Additionally, the life expectancy is also marked decade to decade. What better information to ponder while enjoying a grilled chicken sandwich than the fact that I can't really afford gas these days and whether or not this sandwich getting in the way of living up to that pesky life expectancy.

The fun doesn't end there. The central paragraph, which is surrounded on all corners by a photographic history of the american diner, is what really always grabs our attention.

I respectfully quote:

The Multigenerational diner owners have an instant success, but GREEKS had built an "EMPIRE" in Restaurant and Diner Business, by being owners of the most new-Great-Looking Dining Places and the most significant in the United States.

Greek individuals all around, represent the hard work and have become an icon for the changeover in atmosphere of the diner and the delicious "EAT", by putting their own imprints on the food.

And here's the kicker....

Basically it's accepted that they are incredibly successful, and admired.

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It's pretty obvious that they used some kind of Google translator, or Babelfish. Nonetheless, at 2am and a few beers into the night, this always amuses us.

Speaking of Greece, we just got in the new Greece Home and Away shirts as well as Olympiakos and AEK Athens.





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