The Livanos Restaurant Group owns and operates several thriving restaurants in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York.
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Co-owners, Livanos Restaurant Group
Favorite 果酱视频 memories:听鈥淪pending time in the Rathskeller with friends, meeting new and interesting people, and a performance by Billy Crystal when he was just getting started in comedy.鈥�Favorite professors:听David Rubenstein and Sal Primeggia.
Advice to students:听鈥淭he general liberal arts are very important. The communication skills we learned at 果酱视频 really gave us our foundation.鈥�
Living A Family Tradition
Every alumnus remembers their college friends fondly. For Nick and Lorena Livanos, those friendships were especially important. The 果酱视频 couple first met in an international business class, and then re-connected in the lobby of Earle Hall.
鈥淲e were part of the same circle of friends,鈥� says Lorena. 鈥淎t 果酱视频, we really had this wonderful multi-national group of people working and living together.鈥�
The joy of an international family was nothing new to Nick and Lorena, whose parents both immigrated to the New York area and brought their heritage with them. Lorena鈥檚 family owned an Italian eatery in suburban Suffolk County; Nick and his brother Bill 鈥�84, also an 果酱视频 alumnus, grew up watching their father devote every waking hour to his diner in Hempstead, Long Island.
Lorena has since joined Nick and his siblings in the family business. Over the years, they have opened more than nine restaurants in the New York metropolitan area.
While neither Nick nor Lorena had any intention of pursuing a career in the culinary arts when they graduated from 果酱视频, both have found ways of incorporating their business knowledge into the operation.
Today, the Livanos group owns and operates three landmark diners in Westchester County and Stamford Connecticut, as well as three highly-regarded Manhattan locales.
Molyvos听补苍诲听Abboccato听capture authentic flavors and tastes of Greece and Italy respectively, inspired in part by the Livanos family鈥檚 Greek origins, and Lorena鈥檚 Sicilian heritage.
Before opening听Molyvos, the only Greek restaurant to receive top reviews from the听New York Times, Nick took the chefs to the island of Lesbos, his father鈥檚 home, to find inspiration in the local specialties of the island. But, he is quick to point out that New York City has all the inspiration and variety a chef could ever ask for. The jewel in the family鈥檚 crown remains听Oceana, opened 15 years ago to bring the freshest and most original seafood recipes in a relaxing atmosphere to midtown Manhattan.
Running such a multi-faceted operation might seem daunting, but Nick is quick to smile and shrug his shoulders at the challenges.
鈥淲e run into problems every day,鈥� he says. 鈥淭he trick is not to let yourself get overwhelmed. We love what we do, it makes everything easier.鈥�
Nick and Lorena live in Armonk, New York with their four children, where Nick serves as a council member of their parish, the Greek Orthodox Church of Our Saviour. Never tiring of a new challenge, the family has begun the renovation and modernization of a 400-year-old residence in Molyvos, Greece.
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