YM: With owning a restaurant do you ever give a
culinary student an internship at your restaurant
to help enhance their career?
AR: We have had a few culinary students do
their internship and Externship at PaNash and
I encourage the culinary programs in Queens/Li
Community to send their students to PaNash
YM: How long have you been in business? What awards have you won and why?
AR: I have been operating my Golden Krust for 12 years and PaNash for 4 years. I have received numerous awards some of my proudest are 1) Queens Chamber of Commerce - 1st Place for best commercial design in Queens 2) Caribbean American Chamber Of Commerce - Visionary Award, Business Innovators and Game Changers Honoree, Queens Economic Development Corp (QEDC) - Phoenix Award , and most recently Times Ledger Queens Ambassador Award.
YM: You are the Chairperson of the first Merchant Association for the following; Rosedale, Laurelton and Springfield Gardens. As an entrepreneur business owner please explain to our reader how this can be helpful?
AR: This organization aims to bring local businesses together to share knowledge and skill set, provide necessary business training and education, address business issues in the community, refer business to each other and the biggest benefit is being able to strengthen the local small businesses so they can give back to the community.
YM: What would you like to inform the public about you and your business etc..?
PaNash vision is to provide healthy and uplifting dining and events experience in an upscale and stylish environment. I want people to know that PaNash could have gone in many other communities but I choose to be in Southeast
Queens because I want to uplift the community
and provide a local option for upscale dining instead
of folks having to go to Manhattan