Historia
Open Since 1952
Un pequeño café de Nueva York lleva más de setenta años en la misma esquina.
Palabras clave de esta historia
- diner · restaurante pequeño y barato típico de Estados Unidos
- regular · cliente habitual
- developer · promotor inmobiliario
- corner · esquina
- sign · letrero, cartel
- recipe · receta
- suitcase · maleta
- to take over · hacerse cargo de (un negocio)
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Palabras útiles (12)
- diner · restaurante pequeño y barato típico de Estados Unidos
- corner · esquina
- sign · letrero, cartel
- recipe · receta
- suitcase · maleta
- to take over · hacerse cargo de (un negocio)
- to run · dirigir, llevar (un negocio)
- factory · fábrica
- regular · cliente habitual
- developer · promotor inmobiliario
- to retire · jubilarse
- ordinary · normal, corriente
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Joe's has been on the of Fifth Avenue and Ninth Street, in Brooklyn, since 1952. The is old, the chairs are red, and the coffee is always hot.
Joe opened the more than seventy years ago, when he was twenty-five. He arrived from Italy in 1949 with one and a for pancakes. He worked in the every day for forty years. He died in 1995, but his photo is still on the wall, next to the door.
His daughter, Carla, over the in 1992. She has it since then. Her son Tony has worked with her since he was sixteen. He is forty now. "I have made about a million cups of coffee," he says. "Maybe two million."
Many things have changed in Brooklyn since 1952. The old have become apartments. The small shops have become cafes with expensive bread. But Joe's hasn't changed. The come every morning: the taxi drivers, the nurses from the hospital, and old Mr. Russo, who has eaten the same breakfast for thirty years.
Two weeks ago a man in a gray suit came in. He didn't order anything. He said he was a and he wanted to buy the building. He offered a lot of money. "You can Carla. You can go to Florida."
Carla looked at the photo on the wall. Then she looked at Tony. Then she looked at the "Thank you," she said. "But we haven't finished yet."
The left. Tony made a fresh pot of coffee. Mr. Russo ordered his eggs. It was an morning at Joe's as it has been for more than seventy years.
Comprensión lectora
0/4 respondidas
1. ¿Con qué llegó Joe de Italia en 1949?
2. ¿Desde cuándo trabaja Tony en el restaurante?
3. ¿Qué quería el hombre del traje gris?
4. ¿Qué le responde Carla al promotor?