No one is shaking here.
A Long Island chicken store owned by a former -Garrier “who wants to be a millionaire” forbidden closing thanks to a viral social media SOS – and a startling incentive by a rival eating.
“I put them all on some local groups on Facebook,” the post Josh Gatewood, owner of Yankee Dodle Dandy in Islip and Babylon, told The Post.
“I wrote,” I can close my shops, or I can come to the community for support. “
“It went absolutely viral, thousands of people started talking about it … Now we’re doing more in a single day than we have in the past a week,” said 40-year-old Maspeth resident who earned $ 25,000 in “Who wants to be a millionaire” in 2012 then used the dough to open a version of New York City Food truck in 2013.
Michael Landesberg, Easlip Eatery Jackson Hall East East, who without the latest prayer on the Internet and was assisted in the Restaurant Restaurant.
“I have always believed it is not a competition; What a friendship, ”said Landesberg, 50.
“It is not good to see people fail.”
He acted quickly and posted an online competition, giving $ 1,000 on Jackson Hall’s gift cards to anyone who showed evidence they had eaten in Yankee Doodle, called for Gatewood’s ancestors who fought in the American Revolution.
“Soon after doing so, thousands of other businesses arrived and donated themselves,” Landesberg added.
“ISLIP is one of the strongest communities I have seen.”
By Wednesday afternoon, he had collected over $ 3,000 in gift cards for local meat markets, beauty products, automatic repairs, a bride shop and even mosquito removal service.
They are willing to randomly distribute Yankee Doodle’s defenders this Friday.
“He was an angel on my shoulder,” Gatewood added, who said he also risks being expelled from his home in Queens.
“I would be already without it.”
Landesberg, who had never tried the delicious chicken before being included, removes himself as always generous.
However, something four years ago inspired him to go much above and beyond.
“I was diagnosed with male breast cancer and was given a year to live,” he said.
“I pledged that if I were to recover because of all the support that foreigners had shown me, I would use my life to return the favor,” the chef now without cancer.
Since SOS, customers’ troves for the first time are getting into Yankee Doodle and telling the staff, “Michael sent me.”
“He told me, ‘You have to come in; the food is great,” said the new McGuickan of Islip Terrace while running for her “winning” meal of four chicken tenders for lunch.
The bird boss is optimistic that “it looks like we will not fall again.”
‘In war’
Gatewood, a lover of “Rocky”, after whom he named his young son, knows a lot to be on the ropes.
He was a sharp business executive who lived on a luxurious Atlanta roof while attending his then girlfriend in New York in 2012, hoping to lower a job with Goldman Sachs.
Instead, the master’s degree briefly worked for a Wall Street Cutthroat firm that he compared to Vin Diesel’s “Cartoon Room” before selling cowboy hats in a tourist trap in Walker Street after a split.
Hair broke, Gatewood rose on an air mattress in his little sister Knoxville’s apartment and chicken frying in a Zaxby campus out of the University of Tennessee.
It became the lining of silver that learned self-proclaimed “Slumdog’s Queens” millionaire how to run his country.
“That first weekend I was down there, I received the call I had made it in ‘Who want to be a millionaire’ after five efforts. Whenever I had done in life, there was a miracle,” Gatewood said.
“It’s not over yet, but we’re at war, thanks to everyone. At first I didn’t know much about Long Island, but the people here are really something.”
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