When Shelly Fireman was trying to open a restaurant near Lincoln Center in the mid-1970s, he came up with a simple plan to make it happen: get to the building before the landlord in the morning and repeat.
“It took a year to convince the landlord to allow me to go into the building,” he said. “He showed up at 8:30 in the morning. I was there at a quarter to eight for one year.”
Fireman’s efforts eventually resulted in the Italian restaurant Café Fiorello, which remains a Manhattan staple to this day. It is one of seven restaurants in the city for the Fireman Hospitality Group—founded in
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