Take, for example, the four cooks who have been with both restaurants for 40 years each or the bartenders whose tenures range from 18-35 years. Even though many of Myrtle Beach’s prominent residents started as busboys and waitstaff at the restaurant, the Dinos could not be prouder than of the employees who have made this their career. A smile and positive attitude are the required foundation of every resume. On the menu is printed “Lovingly operated,” and nothing could be closer to the truth. Both live by it and have a good time doing it. Their business relationship has endured through the years thanks to mutual respect and a heartfelt belief that service is an honorable profession. The Flamingo Grill would open nine years later in 1985. Drosas responded “That’s the last thing I want to do.” Fortunately, he changed his mind and Cagney’s opened in 1976. At a Christmas party in 1974, Thompson floated the idea of becoming partners and opening a restaurant together. After they attended college, Drosas entered the world of stocks, bonds and mutual funds while Thompson followed his family roots and opened Dino’s House of Pancakes in North Myrtle Beach. With a friendship that started 66 years ago at a family gathering and a business partnership spanning 45 years, Dino Drosas and Dino Thompson have managed to nurture and maintain a working atmosphere reminiscent of old Myrtle Beach based on respect, loyalty, honesty and a positive attitude.īoth Dinos are the sons of Greek immigrants and saw early on the possibilities and opportunities available to them. Good guys really do finish first, and the owners of the Flamingo Grill are living proof. Appears Microsoft and Apple are nowhere to be found when they're really needed.Dino Drosas and Dino Thompson have been in business together for years (inset) Reminiscent of when Myrtle Beach was a one-hotel town, the neon sign is a classic. The Unemployment system is overloaded or crashing in some states. We will continue paying some of our employees, others we will help with rents or mortgages as long as we can. So as a small business we're closed and completly on our own. That change would have insured survival for us and our wonderful 45 staff members. The government could have acted quickly and backed all insurance companies to begin paying 'Business Interruption' which would help the business, their employees, their purveyors, utility companies, etc. almost all business insurance policies exempt pandemics and acts of war. Even now their mouths ooze blame and no solutions or empathy.Įven though we're well insured for fire, wind, hail, etc. Our tribal obsessed Congress, whose salaries and pensions are guaranteed, has no real idea of the permanent devastation to small businesses, children losing school lunch, oncoming depression of families losing homes. Obviously the CDC, hospitals and the world was caught off guard. This outbreak has been treated so different from Sars and H1N1 where 60,000,000 were infected.the cure may be as devastating to our economy and the health of families and children, as the virus itself.

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