4.4 • 901 Ratings
🗓️ 22 December 2020
⏱️ 48 minutes
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0:00.0 | We've been in the bar business in Atlanta since I guess |
0:09.8 | 1917 going back to my grandfather. |
0:14.0 | He had a bar across the street from the capital |
0:20.0 | called the tip-top billiard parlor. |
0:23.0 | He was a Lebanese immigrant, |
0:25.0 | spoke Arabic and broken English. |
0:28.0 | When the state legislature was in session, |
0:31.0 | the closest place to get a drink was the Tiptop. |
0:35.0 | The Tiptop was the family-owned predecessor of Manuel's Tavern, which is located on North |
0:39.9 | Highland Avenue. |
0:41.1 | For more than six decades, the bar and restaurant has been a consistent hub for reporters, politicians, and fans of a good hang. |
0:49.0 | This is Manuel's owner Brian Maloof. My co-host, Jewel Wicker, sat down with him last week. |
0:55.0 | Tell me how manuals became a restaurant connected to local politics. |
1:01.0 | We've always had a relationship with the political community. |
1:07.0 | So that bar that's out there is from the tip-top. |
1:11.0 | And so it's continued to this day. |
1:15.0 | Manuals is one of many Georgia restaurants that have been significantly impacted |
1:20.0 | by the COVID-19 pandemic. |
1:24.0 | We've had a significant downturn in business overnight, |
1:28.0 | just a dramatic drop in business. |
1:30.0 | We've been losing on average about $25,000 a month. |
1:33.0 | That's how we've been operating in the red. |
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