Chef’s Restaurant celebrated 100 years of food, friendship, and community on Friday, September 22nd, 2023. To commemorate the milestone, All Services WNY, produced a documentary entitles “Chef’s Cent’anni”, which was screened at the North Park Theater on the 21st of September. The doc video is now available here.
The documentary featured interviews with the Billittier family and featured over fifty cameos from well-known customers, dignitaries, professional athletes, and media members. “We wanted to celebrate it the way it should be celebrated, capturing the history created by our parents Ann and Lou Billittier who built it up over the years and continued by my sister Mary Beth and I,” said Co-owner Lou Billittier Jr.
All Services WNY has produced several features for Chef’s over the years, including the origin of spaghetti parm with Dave Thomas and son David Boreanaz . “I first walked in the door at Chef’s in 1981 and I’ve had so many meals there over my years at WKBW-TV, Empire Sports Network and WBBZ-TV that I feel part of the family,” said All Services WNY owner Bob Koshinski.
Koshinski has produced several documentaries over the past eight years including “WKBW Radio’s War of the Worlds, Fifty Years Later” and monthly features for the Buffalo Film Office and the Buffalo Niagara Association of Realtors. Koshinski has also produced profile videos for the Buffalo Bisons, on legendary Sabres Trainer Rip Simonick, the Porter Cup amateur golf tourney, the Niagara Falls Culinary Institute, Niagara County Peach Festival, Town of Niagara Music Mania Mondays, and many more. Go to allserviceswny.com for more information.