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By Christine Haughney / The Bulletin
August 15, 2009
NEW YORK " Charles Augusto Jr. was more than busy when he started working at Kaplan Brothers Blue Flame in 1960 for $75 a week, shuttling between the kitchens of hotels like the Plaza and the sprawling apartments of Astors and Rockefellers to repair their stoves.
But lately, restaurants....