Ohio restaurant names Pennsylvania Gov. Wolf employee of the month for driving business

Megan Guza | Tuesday, June 16, 2020 11:01 a.m.

Courtesy of Gabriel Cellini, Breakwall BBQ

Customers sit physically distant from each other at Breakwall BBQ after the lakefront restaurant reopened in May.

An Ohio barbecue joint just across the border from Erie named Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Wolf its employee of the month for bringing so much business to the lakefront eatery over the past weeks.

The Facebook post from Breakwall BBQ owner Mike Morgan is a wink and a nod to Pennsylvania’s slow, gradual reopening process — a process that has nearby Erie County still in the yellow phase, which prohibits restaurants from offering dine-in services.

Ohio restaurants have been open for full-but-socially-distant business since last month.

“Also want to give a shout-out to our employee of the month, Pennsylvania’s very own Governor Wolf,” Morgan wrote in a June 14 Facebook post. “You the man, sir!”

Morgan told Erie News Now that the comment was meant to be tongue-in-cheek. The Conneaut restaurant is about 2 miles as the crow flies from the state line.

“We’ve broken all kinds of sales records, and we know that big chunk of it is that Pennsylvania is shut down,” he told the outlet.