Brooklyn's Progress
February/March 2007

BY HAROLD EGELN, CONTRIBUTING WRITER

The Brooklyn Chamber of Commerce held its Jan. Business After Hours networking event at the Buffalo Wild Wings® Grill & Bar, the newest attraction at the Atlantic Center Mall. The event drew new and longtime Members to the eatery considered one of the top ten fastest growing restaurant chains in the nation.

With 430 locations, Buffalo Wild Wings® boasts a full menu that includes salads, appetizers, and chicken wings with 14 signature sauces.  The chain’s first Brooklyn location at 139 Flatbush Ave. also includes several big-screen televisions that feature sports. 

Brooklyn Chamber Interim President and COO Mark Kessler and Chamber Chairman Dan Holt, Co-Publisher, Courier-Life Publications, Inc., thanked Buffalo Wild Wings® Grill & Bar for hosting the event.

"We welcome this great and growing restaurant chain to Brooklyn, as we do other major chains," said Mr. Holt.

"We are very glad to be here and happy to be host to this wonderful Chamber event, with all the good the Chamber does for Brooklyn," said James Bitzonis, Esq., President & CEO, Four M Capital, LLC, NYC Metro Area Franchisee of Buffalo Wild Wings® Grill & Bar.

The winner of the evening's door prize drawing, Leigh Beckett of DevelopingStrategy, received a goodie bag containing a $50 gift certificate for Buffalo Wild Wings® Grill & Bar; two Boarding Passes for NYC Grayline and two "Brooklyn Passes" courtesy Grayline, Brooklyn Pass and Brooklyn Tourism and Visitors Center; as well as private label coffee courtesy of US Coffee.

For more information about Buffalo Wild Wings® Grill & Bar call 718-943-9453, or visit http://www.buffalowildwings.com/.

Next BAH
The Chamber’s next networking event scheduled for Wednesday, Mar. 21, will be sponsored and hosted by Body By Brooklyn Spa & Lounge, 275 Park Ave., Clinton Hill.  Check http://www.ibrooklyn.com/ for details.

The Chamber’s Business After Hours (BAH) events are a fun way to network and make business contacts. To learn about opportunities to host or sponsor a BAH or other Chamber event, contact Maggie Beaute-Lucien, Special Events Director, at 718-875-1000 ext. 105, or at mlucien@brooklynchamber.com.