PA Restaurant Owner Opens for Dine-in Services: ‘I Didn’t Back Down'.....

Brretbart ^ | 5/16/2020 | HANNAH BLEAU

[caww]

Round the Clock Diner made waves this week after the owner reopened the restaurant’s locations in Manchester and Springettsbury 'for dine-in' services, in contravention to the governor’s stay-at-home order.....the yellow phase of reopening does not allow restaurants to operate dine-in services. Despite that, Sacarellos is charging ahead.

I think I just follow what’s right,” Sacarellos, who has been in the business for 52 years, said they are keeping the restaurant “very clean” and taking safety protocols, like seating patrons at every other table. Urging Wolf to “let the people open up ,Forget the politics.”

“I didn’t back down. I’m still operating and will continue, We’re not opening just because we need the money. We didn’t change the prices for 11 and half years. … So we’re not looking for money. We’re looking for money to pay the bills and support our families and that’s it,” he said.....Everyone says thank you, he said, even offering, in some cases,”$50 dollars, $100 dollars.”

“I said I don’t need money. Just pay for your meals. That’s all I need. That’s all I want you to do so I can pay my people,” he said.

Sacarellos pays his employees $14 an hour, noting that it helps them support their families and encourages them to “come in and work.”

“Put the politics aside and let the people work, because the country is turning into more like a communist system here,” he warned, “and I know better than a communist system. I lived in those days.”

Sacarellos immigrated from Greece and briefly touched on the brutality he witnessed growing up, at the hands of communism.

“I have seen in my life a lot. The American people don’t even know,” he said, explaining that “Russia took over” and adding that it was “coming down.”

[caww]

I wasn’t aware of that...thanks.

[max americana]

That’s why I moved from canada because I was tired of the commie-socialist crap there. I totally understand his viewpoint.

[caww]

US will always be the home of the free over every other country.....regardless of the weight of government...when they push too hard the citizens will push back and die doing so if they have to.

Not so sure the next generations could do that, nor even those coming up now. They’re just too focused on themselves to care.

[Irish Eyes]

Was an interesting article to bring here......foreigners who have lived under brutal leaderships can see the signs far better than Americans. This man as integrated well.

I wish more people had the opportunity to listen to the people that have lived though these regimes.

[cyclotic]

I can make it there in about an hour fifteen. I was holding off going there. Figured they will be super busy.

We’ve been making the rounds of local family places by us for carry out. One place I though was closed is now open. They are next on Tuesday

Maryland’s illustrious coward RINO punted reopening decisions to county executives. My son who lives in a closed county is coming to pick some stuff up next week. The scofflaw.

We joined a few hundred others for some mask-less, non socially distant protesting yesterday. I even shook hands with three people

[The Fop]

He wanted to pave the way but nobody followed him.... More evidence that society is made up of a handful of righteous people, a handful of evil people, and the overwhelming majority of people are cowards

[jmacusa]

Good on you. Don’t back down.

[Jimmy Valentine]

I have eaten there a bunch of times. Good food, great service and very reasonable. I wish them well

[gogeo]

“Put the politics aside and let the people work, because the country is turning into more like a communist system here,”