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Baybridge Szechuan Restaurant reopens in Bayside
BY JENNA BAGCAL
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@jenna_bagcal
A beloved Chinese restaurant in Bayside
that shuttered during the pandemic is
making its comeback.
Th e owner of Baybridge Szechuan
Restaurant, Joseph Chen, announced
that the neighborhood favorite was set to
reopen on Th ursday, July 22, according to
a report from Patch.
Aft er Chen retired and sold his restaurant
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to a new owner in 2019, the business
at 20806 Cross Island Pkwy. fl oundered
and was forced to close during
COVID-19. Now, Chen is coming out of
retirement to bring customers delicious
Chinese cuisine once again.
According to Chen, much of day to day
will operate the same as it had for the
three decades that the restaurant has been
at the Baybridge Commons Mall. One
thing that diners will recognize is the eatery’s
menu fi lled with familiar dishes like
Peking duck, Szechuan dumplings, sesame
chicken and moo shu pork.
Th e owner said that the restaurant will be
open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.
He told Patch that much of his staff ,
who had stayed on with the new owners
in 2019, would also be back, saying
that it was “one of my main purposes for
reopening.”
“My staff are in their early 60s and late
50s, so it’s very hard to fi nd a new job, and
they asked me if I could come back and
reopen the business and let everybody
have a job,” Chen told Patch.
Chen and his wife and business partner
Carol worked out a deal to make some of
the staff members business partners so
that the aging couple could do less work
while keeping Baybridge Szechuan open.
Baybridge Szechuan Restaurant is set to reopen on July 22.
Photo courtesy of MSG Entertainment
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