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Back To The Future

Moe's on Ten returns to its family dining roots.

here is certainly noth-
ing wrong with trying
something new in life
... But in the restaurant busi-
ness, owning a successful
operation and changing it
into something else is a
much bigger gamble than the
original opening.
Danny Raskin
For Moe Leon, listening to
Senior Columnist
another's suggestion and
going from lower-priced family dining to an
upscale operation was a hazardous chance from the
beginning.
His Moe's on Ten Seafood Grill, now called Moe's
on Ten Family Dining, just west of Haggerty on 10
Mile, Novi, was good but too high priced ... Give
him credit for burying his pride and admitting that
he made a mistake.
Moe has gone back to what he knows best ...
Family dining on a much lower price scale ...
backed by a proven experience of 28 successful
years that should never be played around with.
By finally realizing that his original concept of
down-to-earth casual goodness was really the
favorite that people wanted, he's back on the right
track again.
Thankfully, it took Moe Leon just two years to
find out that you are a fool to change a successful
pattern in the restaurant business ... And his
change back is also where he wants to be ... in the
kitchen preparing the day's home-style dishes ...
served at the low prices that Moe has always been
noted for ... He's in the kitchen for daily breakfasts
but in front hosting at lunch and dinner ... back to
his familiar home-cooked family food at low prices
for high volume instead of big checks.
Moe's on Ten Family Dining is again serving
breakfast, lunch and dinner ... seven days a week,
Sunday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday and
Saturday, 7-11 ... Also its popular Sunday brunch, 9
a.m.-2 p.m., $7.95 adults, $4.95 kids 10 & under.
Same-size portions both lunch and dinner ...
much lower prices ... with things back on the menu
like hot turkey, meatloaf, ground sirloin, baked
chicken, etc., along with Moe's excellent soups that
he makes himself.
Even lunches now in the $5.95 range with all-
you-want soup on every item except appetizers,
including about 35 hot and cold sandwiches, 11 sal-
ads, seafood, meat and pasta ... Lunch and dinner
low prices back to the family dining dictates of
downright common sense.
Dinner prices are shocking in their lower pricing
now ... with no change in size or quality ... and all
you can eat soup ... 8 oz. filet mignon, $18.95
instead of $29; 14 oz. New York strip, $15.95, not
$24; lemon chicken, $8.95 rather than $13.50;
stuffed roasted chicken and roasted turkey with

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stuffing, both $7.95, not $8.95; crab cakes, $14.95,
instead of $21.95; shrimp scampi, $10.95, not
$17.95.
Also a separate kids' menu on which the young-
sters can doodle as they choose from burgers,
spaghetti, grilled cheese, chicken fingers, hot dogs
... $3.50, 10 and under, including french fries and
beverage ... Even their own breakfasts too, $1.99.
Back again as one of the better ones, Moe's
Family Dining can again point with much pride to
its home cooking of freshly made food ... and the
return of pricing that so many felt had gotten out of
hand.
Moe Leon isn't listening anymore to changing a
highly accepted pattern ... It's back to his many
years of love to stay ... home-cooked family dining.
IMAGINE TOP ACTS like Sammy Davis Jr. and
Bill Cosby appearing on the same bill ... Simon
Thomas had them together for 10 shows in five
nights when he owned the Premier Center in
Sterling Heights during its heydays from 1980
through 1988.
Simon is back in action again with his beautiful
1,200-seat Crystal Gardens on Fort Street (right
turn off 1-75) in Southgate ... Wayne Newton, com-
ing to Crystal Gardens Friday, Dec. 16, did a whop-
ping 22 shows in 11 nights at the Premier Center,
and sold out every one ... Funny gent Sinbad, is
scheduled for Saturday, Nov. 19, and a night before,
Nov. 18, the Chippendales ... Coming, too, will be
Tom Jones, Don Rickles, Joan Rivers plus numerous
other top name favorites.
BIGGIE NUMBER SEVEN in the annual popu-
lar funfest hosted by National Kidney Foundation
of Michigan, Soiree on the River, presented this year
by Verizon Wireless, is Friday, Oct. 28, at the
Roostertail on Marquette, Detroit.
Personable gals, event founder Mida Giragosian
and Ann Duke, are the co-chairs again, raising
money for NKFM's many programs and services ...
It's also the group's 50th anniversary, so should be
quite a party with strolling dinner, live and silent
auction, live entertainment, etc ... For tickets, call
Catherine Lang, (800) 482-1455.
CONGRATS ... To Leonard and Barbara Schwartz
on their 50th anniversary.
MEMORIES DEPT. ... by Marian Cole who
recalled saying back in 1957,"I never thought I'd
see the day that gas would be 29 cents a gallon."
HER PARENTS, Mort and Leslie Meisner, were
even more proud of daughter, Nicole Meisner, who
became a bat mitzvah recently at Temple Shir
Shalom ... She gave a good portion of her cash gifts
to the American Cancer Society ... after learning
that, coincidently, October is Think Pink Month,
bringing attention to breast cancer ... and the theme
of Nicole's reception, chosen a year ago ... was also
Think Pink.

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