The New York restaurant uses Madame Tussauds wax figures to fill empty seats

New York. Known for its tasty cold cuts, New York’s Peter Luger restaurant today has wax figures from the famous Madame Tussauds museum to fill some of its empty seats as the city’s buildings are still only at 35% of their maximum capacity can work.

Among the celebrities accompanying diners are the iconic Audrey Hepburn and the actor Jon Hamm, as well as the presenter and former athlete Michael Strahan, the comedian Jimmy Fallon and the meteorologist Al Roker.

“I think a lot of people like it”he told local media David Berson, one of the spokespersons for the Brooklyn restaurant, who has had these curious new “dinners” since next Wednesday and will stay until next Monday.

“Some customers, when they first come in, don’t realize they are wax figures”added.

“One person asked Jon Hamm yesterday if he knew where the toilets were, almost as if he were an employee”, he counted.

In real life, Hepburn died of cancer at the age of 63, but in this restaurant, the actress, decked out in her pearls and elegant black gloves, sits in front of a pair of martinis and a basket of bread, staring at an empty chair. .

However, Jon Hamm is in the bar with a drink in his hand, leaning lightly on the bar, while Al Roker kindly shows customers the stairs leading to the restaurant’s second floor, and Jimmy Falon enjoys a different table from the one . of Peter Luger’s famous steaks.

“None of them have covid”, bromea Berson. “Everyone is having a great time.”