Sammy Business Dinner Group Year-End Recap

The Sammy TriState Business Networking Dinner Group wrapped up the 2025 program strong on 11/25, celebrating successes both personal and collective.

Several members arrived early to pre-game in the sidewalk cafe outside with whiskeys and cigars. Friends and cousins were in town early for Thanksgiving, and got to hang with the boys and meet their brothers during "the meeting before the meeting."

At 6:08pm we took the party upstairs to our usual private room in the mezzanine to convene the meeting and get down to business. The curated agenda is overstuffed by design, ensuring that we never run out of topics of substance to discuss.

Subject matter experts get the floor to present best practices and trends in AI, HR, legal, tax, real estate, sales and marketing. Q&A is always robust.

The Brooklyn Bank Turkey Giveaway was approved as our charity of the month.

Some of us lingered long after for the usual after-party. Adem loves us and treats us like family. Thank you Fra Scott Bloom for sourcing quality venues again and again.

After sampling a few other high-end steak houses and gourmet fusion restaurants in Q1 and Q2, the group settled on Royal 35 Steakhouse as our home for 2025 - 2026. The venue is centrally located between Penn Station and Grand Central, providing easy access for members coming from NJ, Westchester and LI.

We will continue to meet there on the last Tuesday of every other month starting in January 2026.

"Some of the dishes are comparable to Luger," Fra Jake Krassner testified. We remain committed to working our way through the menu to validate that assumption.

We have a few more seats at the table before we outgrow this room. Brothers interested in joining us can reach out to SammyTriState (at) Gmail (dot) com for an invitation.

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