20 Comments

1. POSTED BY jimmy229oz  |  January 28, 2009 @ 12:08 pm

   This guy stood out like a sore thumb. The usual clerks at Gencarellis are young ladies and an older lady. They are always pleasant and businesslike. Had I walked in as the regular customer I am, I think I ould have known immediatly what was up, having recognized the actor from the deli bit they did a few weeks ago in Hackensack.
   That said, I was impressed with the patron’s reactions and thought it was a thought provoking piece.
2. POSTED BY Jerzee Giant  |  January 28, 2009 @ 12:21 pm

   It was interesting that women seemed more willing to step-up than men. Except for one guy who confronted the counter man by himself, most men didn’t enter the fray until a woman had the guts to step up first. Maybe men are concerned that it could lead to a physical confrontation. Anyway…good to see the locals do the right thing.
3. POSTED BY Spicoli  |  January 28, 2009 @ 12:26 pm

   Next week on ABC News… We secretly put a bunch of actors in key township jobs in Montclair, NJ. Our hidden cameras followed the action as our plants intentionally ballooned the town budget, raised taxes to unsustainable levels, flew the high school principal back and forth to Florida, refused to plow roads and threw empty garbage cans on sidewalks. What would you do?
4. POSTED BY jimmytown  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:01 pm

   I saw this last night and got excited to see the bakery. The house bit before that, where was that- livingston?
5. POSTED BY jn024  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:17 pm

   sfogatelli and canolli are both the best desserts from Gencarelli’s
   plus it is fun to order and say “sfogatelli”
6. POSTED BY Nellie  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:24 pm

   We secretly put a bunch of actors in key township jobs in Montclair, NJ.
   ———————
   Aren’t there already actors in key township jobs. And Bike Boy and the Council members don’t generally look like they’ve mastered their parts.
7. POSTED BY RaeVen  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:31 pm

   Does anyone know what restaurant the man who helps the woman at the end owns? They say that he owns a restaurant down the street, and I’d like to give it a try considering he was such a stand up guy.
8. POSTED BY Anne Prince  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:38 pm

   Guess’s would be Obals, Vinnie’s, Town Pub – I doubt he is the owner of Brookside Thai
9. POSTED BY Surrounded  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:52 pm

   I like the woman who says, “You’re being a dick, man”!! That’s something I’d say!!!
   Gotta love Bloomfield!!!
10. POSTED BY Surrounded  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:54 pm

    I like the woman who says, “You’re being a dick, man”!! That’s something I’d say!!!
    Gotta love Bloomfield!!!
11. POSTED BY Surrounded  |  January 28, 2009 @ 1:55 pm

    So much so, I’d say it twice!!
12. POSTED BY HidingInBaristaville  |  January 28, 2009 @ 2:03 pm

    He owns Bloomfield Steak and seafood:
    409 Franklin St.
    Bloomfield, NJ 07003
    Tel: 973-680-4500
    Fax: 973-680-1752
    http://www.restaurantpassion.com/listing.aspx?a=252&sid=8&sn=NJ
13. POSTED BY nachos  |  January 28, 2009 @ 2:20 pm

    I love their birthday cakes…all of them! It was a very interesting show last night.
14. POSTED BY Mkay  |  January 28, 2009 @ 2:46 pm

    It was a very good piece! Good to see people stand up for them. Although, that guy during the first bit near the beginning of the line was a jerk just staring and laughing! Also, interestingly a blind couple really does live up the block from the bakery!
15. POSTED BY ackme  |  January 28, 2009 @ 4:16 pm

    I love whatever the holiday special is. The graveyard cake for Halloween – the giant turkey ass for Thanksgiving, the bouche de noel, so tacky, so Jersey.
16. POSTED BY lasermike026  |  January 28, 2009 @ 4:35 pm

    I’m proud of my neighbors. Nice people.
17. POSTED BY Conan  |  January 29, 2009 @ 8:29 am

    I stopped there at zero-dark-thirty this morning for pastries for my monthly “suck-up-with-the-big-bosses” meeting. Nothing like a Gencarelli cheese Danish to win brownie points with the expensive suits. The people working there have never been anything but nice to me – even at their busiest.
18. POSTED BY walleroo  |  January 29, 2009 @ 10:54 am

    Customers observed the evil sales clerk insulting and short-changing a blind woman, and then a blind man (both actors).
    The way Annette did the write up, it sounds as though the two blind patrons were the actors, but not the person behind the counter. I suppose I should assume that this imprecision with the language is just Baristanet’s “style”.
19. POSTED BY Cuddles  |  January 29, 2009 @ 1:58 pm

    My birthday cake was from Gencs, it was white cake with choc mousse inside and whipped cream outside, It was delicious!
20. POSTED BY Sandy  |  January 29, 2009 @ 6:18 pm

    “” I saw this last night and got excited to see the bakery. The house bit before that, where was that- livingston? “”
    In it they say # 108 Shrewesbery Drive and that is in Livingston, off of Northfield Ave.

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