The tourist takes the photo on the sidewalk. Mike Zoulis is inside, running the diner.
On the corner of Broadway and 112th, the red neon "Restaurant" sign pulls people in from Ohio, from Düsseldorf, from anywhere Seinfeld reruns still air at 11 p.m. They stand outside Tom's, snap a picture of what they think is Monk's Café, and leave without ordering a coffee. The ones who actually walk in meet a Greek-American family that has been running this corner since the 1940s, when Greece-born Tom Glikas founded the place in 1940 and sold it six years later to the Zoulis family, who continue to own it.
