He wanted to open a restaurant in Midtown Manhattan I heard. Good luck with that for him, I don't know if it would've been a success.
African joints are not that popular here in NYC unless they're in Harlem and BX with heavy concentrations of their own communities. Not to mention he would've been losing money the first couple years in restaurant business anyway.
But I still feel bad for him regardless, this is still the practice of many older Africans(heck, my dad didn't even have his own debit card until 10 years ago) so I'm not suprised he had bags of cash on hand. But his mistake was not realizing that does NOT work in America, especially in NYC. And most importantly, do not even trust your own relatives with that kind of money either.
African joints are not that popular here in NYC unless they're in Harlem and BX with heavy concentrations of their own communities. Not to mention he would've been losing money the first couple years in restaurant business anyway.
But I still feel bad for him regardless, this is still the practice of many older Africans(heck, my dad didn't even have his own debit card until 10 years ago) so I'm not suprised he had bags of cash on hand. But his mistake was not realizing that does NOT work in America, especially in NYC. And most importantly, do not even trust your own relatives with that kind of money either.
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