86'd: How A Global Pandemic Rocked The World's Culinary Capital

80 West Broadway,Long Beach NY 11561

29 July, 2021

Description

Captures the fear, anger and resilience of New York’s restaurant community during the early months of COVID-19. Six-time Emmy Award-winner Rob Petrone makes his directorial debut with "86'd: How A Global Pandemic Rocked The World's Culinary Capital." Prior to directing, writing, narrating and co-producing this documentary, Petrone was the executive producer and host of Restaurant Hunter for Verizon's Fios1 News. "As COVID-19 started spreading in New York in March of 2020, I reached out to many of my former Restaurant Hunter colleagues with an idea -- to capture this pandemic from a restaurant perspective in real time, creating a time capsule of the biggest story any of us have ever lived through. We put our restaurant industry contacts and expertise to work, following this moving target of a story wherever it took us, which included a linen supply company and a one-woman farm. The emotions are raw in a way retrospectives can't be. This is history as it unfolded." PLEASE BRING BEACH CHAIRS AND BLANKETS!