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  • What I love about the Bronx is the community is quite a few family owned businesses that it's still here.

  • Many celebrated 100 years more.

  • Only 83 years.

  • I feel like I'm Joan.

  • I'm Chris and we are the owners of Forgot.

  • These in the Bronx Forgot.

  • He's was founded by my Grandparent's Lindo and Maria Borgata.

  • I started working here at age of 18.

  • I would help out in the back with ravioli production.

  • Of course, learning how to sweep the floor was also one of the jobs.

  • I had a part time job across the street in the pharmacy, and I came into my ravioli.

  • One day she quote my heart, and I had one of my orchids bring a rose over the single rose.

  • It was destiny.

  • You didn't tell him your famous line.

  • Let me take you away from all of this meeting.

  • I went from that here today.

  • We're still using Grandma's recipes were gone the whole legs, some salt and pepper and some grated cheese.

  • The past is made by hand hold school.

  • I learned business from my dad hands on how to operate it, how to conduct myself, how to treat employees told me a lot of life skills, especially how to be able to get back to the community and actually all of the businesses in the neighborhood reach out to one another and by products from each other.

  • When people come here, that's what they feel.

  • They feel the goodness to say It's easy, be alive And Johnny's been my rock here and there were many times I gotta lean on the stories to be supported by many of the customers who lived here.

  • Of course, as they retired and moved away, I thought we'd be like, done.

  • Every other person that came in the door had a story.

  • I moved to Florida.

  • I went to North Carolina.

  • I miss you.

  • Christmas without you is terrible.

  • Way had people asking us constantly if we were going to start shipping.

  • So I learned how to put up a website, and it started just really grow.

  • Now online sales are 30% of our business and half of that comes from Google and they do share their stories online like thank you and now my daughter can be raised on your rabble in the same way I waas all those reviews are very helpful from reaching new customers every weekend.

  • I'm like so they come.

  • People recognize My father says We're part of a story here, part of the history of this business being in this neighborhood for the past 83 years.

  • So I wrote down on a piece of paper to remind myself each day working to keep their dream.

  • That's how I feel, and I know they're watching over us.

What I love about the Bronx is the community is quite a few family owned businesses that it's still here.

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