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Indian cuisine has its way in New Jersey
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Saturday, 16 January, 2010, 08 : 00 AM [IST]
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A road in the US city of Edison in New Jersey will now be called “Mehtani Way’ in recognition of an Indian-American whose chain of restaurants has contributed to popularizing Indian cuisine and enriching the culture and economy of the township, PTI reports from Washington. The plaque of Mehtani Way was unveiled by Jun Choi, the outgoing Mayor of the New Jersey city of Edison, at a ceremony over the weekend in the presence of Satish Mehtani, whose family runs a chain of Indian restaurants in New Jersey. Edison has one of the largest concentrations of Indian-American in the country.
Noting that such a ceremonial honour is reserved for war veterans, Choi said, “It is the first time I am dedicating a street to an entrepreneur, Satish Mehtani, who has contributed to enrich the culture and economy of Edison township.”
Mehtani Way connects Oak Tree Road to Moghul Restaurant at Oak Tree Center Mall, in the part of Edison that is known as “Little India” as it has more than 300 Indian businesses. Mehtani arrived in the US in March 1970 from India where he had won a gold medal for the construction of an Indo-Swiss Training Centre for the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR). After working as an insurance agent for 20 years in New York for 20 years, he ventured into restaurant business along with his wife Sneh and opened a chain of restaurants in New York and St Thomas, Virgin Island. After establishing Moghul and Ming in Edison, Mehtani launched three more restaurants – Ming-II, Mehndi and SM23, in Morristown, also in New Jersey.
He launched Edison Day Care Center in 2008 in partnership with Dinesh Patel to provide relief and comfort to the most vulnerable section of the society – the seniors. “I have done my best to help the needy in the community where I live and work,” said Mehtani.
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