Photo credit: Neshan H. Naltchayan
Mayor Vincent Gray has become such a fixture in Georgetown he ought to change his residential zone to 20007.
This morning he had breakfast at CLYDES where they celebrated thier 50th Anniversay, no easy feat for a restaurant. We’re not sure if he had one of the retro menu favorites: Eggs Benedit (two poached eggs and Canadian bacon on an English muffin topped with hollandaise sauce) or the Clyde’s Omelette (spinach and bacon omelette topped with hollandaise sauce), both were good.
David Del Bene (GM of Clyde’s Georgetown), Mayor Vincent Gray, Tom Meyer, (President and CEO of Clyde’s Restaurant Group)
The DC Council officially proclaimed August 12th “Clyde’s of Georgetown Day.”
How We Do Business Clyde’s Primer for Beating the Odds in the Restaurant Business by J. Garrett Glover was also available for sale to mark Clyde’s Golden Anniversary, “fifty years beating the odds in the tough, fickle business of running profitable restaurants. The most significant feat in the company’s fifty years is that the operators have never closed or handed over a restaurant. All fourteen locations are still open and the company is profitable, a staggering feat considering that one in four restaurants close or change ownership within the first year of business.” Kudos!
Hollywood on the Potomac asked the Mayor which he preferred – breakfast or beer on tap at Martins Tavern’s celebration in the evening. “They’re very different environments,” he remarked. “This is great because you bring people together in the morning. It kind of symbolizes what Clydes started out doing, bringing people together in the morning. But it was also great being in the Saloon at Martins as well. Put the two together and you get what Georgetown really is…….a place where people gather to have fun and people make friends.”
