However, Sardi failed the chemistry examination because he had sold his textbook at Barnes & Noble so he could attend a dance.
[4] He was known for extending lines of credit to unemployed Broadway actors and offered special menus with reduced prices to them.
[1] He was president of the Greater Times Square Committee in the 1960s and the Restaurant League of New York in the 1970s, serving as official and unofficial spokesperson of Manhattan's Theater District.
[2] He later opened a branch of the restaurant on East 54th Street and a dinner theater in Long Island but neither turned out to be a success.
[2][5] In 1985, he sold the restaurant to a pair of producers Ivan Bloch and Harvey Klaris and restaurateur Stuart Lichtenstein.