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Eat at the pro's

By Shaun Assael
ESPN The Magazine

Thursday, July 30, 2009

This story appears in the August 10 issue of ESPN The Magazine. If you asked Jack Dempsey about what it took for athletes to make it in the restaurant biz back when he owned one of the swankiest joints in Manhattan, He probably would have shrugged. Dempsey's place on Broadway was known for steaks as bloody as his KOs. But mostly fans loved it because the great fighter himself was the No. 1 customer, always around and available to scribble an autograph. And that's probably about as much high- ...

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