The Great Jersey Shore Take-Out took place this weekend, and it was so successful that some restaurants had to stop taking orders hours before closing. 

 

Restaurant owner Bob Fahey put the event together to help put money back into the pockets of laid-off servers, bartenders, and cooks at restaurants in Monmouth and Ocean counties.

Fahey’s restaurants stopped taking orders for the day Saturday around 2:30 p.m. They were booked solid for the whole evening. 

 

Fahey’s restaurants stopped taking orders for the day Saturday around 2:30 p.m. They were booked solid for the whole evening. 

“We were overwhelmed by the response, and the phones were ringing off the hook here at Joe's Surf Shack,” says Fahey. “We actually had to stop taking orders around 2:30 to fulfill all the orders that we had up until 8 that night.”

Chef Lou in Manasquan says he sold out of prime rib cuts, 60 of them. One bar also stopped taking orders hours before dinner.

“What we said our goal would be about $100,000 and with the 25 restaurants, the averages, I think we'll exceed that number,” says Fahey.

Fahey says the logical step is to plan the next one, and that is already in the works.

More than two dozen restaurants participated.