WATERVLIET, N.Y. (NEWS10) — Bob Ziter, the founder of Bob’s Diner in Watervliet, has passed away, the restaurant announced on Saturday. He was 75 years old.
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Ziter first opened Bob’s Diner, located on 19th Street, in 1979. The restaurant has since grown into a Watervliet staple, serving breakfast, lunch and dinner 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
“Bob was always a super, super hard worker,” Holly McDermott, a waitress at the diner for over 20 years, told NEWS10. “He was always on top of everything. If a wrapper was on the floor, he was the first one to notice and pick it up immediately.”
When Ziter retired several years ago, he passed the diner on to his son, Ryan, but that didn’t stop his presence in the restaurant. He reportedly came in everyday to check on operations.
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“Early mornings, late nights, coffee poured at the counter — Bob was the quiet force behind it all,” the diner said in a post on social media. “Because of him, this small city always had a place to gather, to connect, to sit a little longer over a cup of coffee.”…