Bridge Cleaners and Tailors is owned by Victoria Aviles, a Colombian immigrant in her 60s, who worked her way up from sweeping in a dry cleaners to becoming a couture tailor and business owner. She is now joined by her 29-year-old son Richard. “Every tailor here comes from a different country. Many of them have been offered to make more …
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Despite only being in his early 30s, Andreas Matischak, manager of the almost 80-year-old Yorkville German restaurant Heidelberg has a keen appreciation of his many older workers. “I’d rather have older people working here,” he says. Heidelberg is built on tradition: “We don’t change. We’ve never changed. We’ve been the same since the beginning. We’ve always kept it as our …
Although a relatively small artisan cheese producer, Beecher’s Handmade Cheese has managed to gain profitable shelf space next to much larger competitors in supermarket giants like Wegmans, by going after key certifications that the supermarkets require, and continuously developing new products. It’s this innovation and intuition – along with popular products – that has driven the cheese maker’s success. “As …
At the age of 93, Little Neck resident Dave Shapiro continues to work in his family’s industrial brush business, over eight decades after he began earning a nickel for every sack of wooden brush blocks he unpacked for his father, the company’s co-founder. More… http://www.qchron.com/editions/central/new-guides-put-the-focus-on-the-older-worker/article_582b1e42-da10-11e4-ac9a-1bffd154a686.html?mode=image&photo=0
