Joe D’Entremont told us he’s had trouble persuading restaurants to do this,” MacDonald said. “Sal jumped in with both feet.”
A couple of weeks ago, they unveiled a table with an empty seat at Salvatore’s, Lupoli’s restaurant in Lawrence, and 300 people showed up. Lupoli wants to leave an empty seat in each of his five restaurants and his 40 pizza shops. Eventually it will get done. And if you don’t think it will happen in all those locations, you don’t know Sal Lupoli.
D’Entremont is hoping for momentum. What the Patriots are doing this week sets an example for the Red Sox and the people who run the Garden. Sal Lupoli has set the bar for restaurants.
D’Entremont is a Jamaica Plain guy, and when he went to his local, the venerable Doyle’s Cafe, Gerry Burke Jr. agreed to keep a empty table throughout the Veterans Day weekend.
What if every bar in Boston, in Massachusetts, in New England left an empty seat or table?
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