Waiting on a wing: Crowds line up outside Newington restaurant for chance at ...
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NEWINGTON — Food lovers waited over 12 hours outside the first Buffalo Wild Wings restaurant to hit New Hampshire, in hopes of sinking their teeth into sauced up chicken and grabbing a year's worth of free wings.
Manager Kristen Gallo said people were already lining up outside the restaurant at the Fox Run Mall since 10 p.m. the night before. When she closed Saturday night after the VIP event, she said people were already hunkering down for a night outside the mall.
"I can't believe so many people were here this early," she said.
When she returned in the morning to set up for the grand opening, the line was wrapping around the building.
The first 100 guests in line for the opening were rewarded for their dedication with coupons that provide them with six free wings a week for an entire year.
Drew Morgan, 21, and Paul King, 25, were the first in line, having decided they were going to make sure they got their wings before anyone else. They
Source: Foster's Daily Democrat
Looking back, forging ahead
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I wrote this letter by firelight — not because I was feeling sentimental or romantic, but because our power was knocked out by the freak pre-Halloween snowstorm that pummeled the Northeast.
I tried to channel the fortitude of my sturdy ancestors, who studied and labored long hours into the night without electricity, but it wasn’t working for me.
As my kids complained they were bored, the heat disappeared into the frosty evening and my cell phone threatened to die, the allure of the first few hours of outage evaporated, and it struck me full force that the past is a nice place to visit, but I wouldn’t want to live there.
Speaking of the past, hundreds of Steak and Ale alumni took a trip down memory lane in mid-October — this time on purpose — in the first full-fledged reunion of employees of the groundbreaking casual-dining brand. The event, captured in the pages of the Community section, brought together many of Norman Brinker’s protégés, now industry leaders in their own right, for an evening of iconic S&A fare and gratitude for an inspirational moment in time that laid the path to the present.
Source: Nation's Restaurant News