Father-daughter duo restarts business despite COVID-19 pandemic
News 12 Staff
Updated on:Jan 29, 2021, 11:52am EST
Yelp reports more than 90,000 businesses closed nationwide from March to September. - and Joe Crotty Jr. s bar was one of them.
Crotty Jr. opened his first bar in 1980, and eventually ran a bar in the Bronx - until COVID-19. It was not going to come back. It was a college bar, he says.
Crotty Jr. says he felt he had to pivot, and since business is in his blood, he came up with an idea. Well, there s a few items people can agree on they like. Pizza, burgers and Philly cheesesteaks. But most people don t do a Philly cheesesteak right, he says.