Romeo! Romeo! Wherefore art thou Romeo? Stop beckoning for your lover over the balcony and try the SeaGrille on a Wednesday at about noon. READ MORE

By ALEC RADER, Staff Writer POSTED: October 24, 2009Everyone enjoys spending time with friends. From grade school through college, lives tend to revolve around finding a balance between school and friends. In adulthood, friends become even more important. READ MORE

 

 

 

 

 

 

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PONTE VEDRA BEACH — They claim they’re not trying to solve the world’s problems at lunch. But if anyone was, this handful of retired guys in high-backed chairs at a table inside TPC Sawgrass Clubhouse wouldn’t be off to a bad start READ MORE.

For the last two years Nancy and I have been blessed by an annual visit from the Romeos. The Romeos (an acronym for Retired Old Men Eating Out) are a group of guys from the church who started to meet for breakfast once a week. READ MORE

OTTUMWA — Leave it to a woman to do a man’s job. READ MORE

The name of the club is ROMEO, Retired Old Men Eating Out. We are a bunch of men, around 15 members, that have a real affinity with each other. READ MORE

Senior citizens in India believe they are too young to retire — they are flying, climbing mountains, rafting down rivers and even getting married again. Varuna Verma reports READ MORE

Getting older? Join the club. Every Wednesday at 11:30, Bruce Friedman, 75, has lunch with eight to 10 other retirees in Tucson, Ariz. The decade-old group of seniors ages 65 to 89 calls itself the Romeo Club, which stands for Retired Old Men Eating Out. READ MORE:

One by one, the men gathered on a recent Friday. The first to get there was Jack Steinbrock, 86, a retired accountant who strolled into the Upper East Side restaurant just before noon. Next was Al Lobel, 82, a retired psychiatrist who took a seat beside him and inquired, with a twinkle in his eye, “Do you come here often?”  READ MORE

Romeo, Romeo, wherefore art thou, Romeo?
For an answer to that age-old question, Juliet need look no farther than the IHOP restaurant in Harrisonburg, Va., on Monday evenings or the Daily Grind in Park View on Friday mornings. READ MORE

LAKEPOINT, Tooele County -- Inside a truck stop on a cold fall morning, they look like just another bunch of old guys. They park in handicap stalls and wear hearing aids -- or admit they should. Mickey Bailey, a radio operator in the Navy during World War II, is blind and needs someone to cut his food. Fellow seaman Jim Hales uses a wooden cane when he walks. Nine men from the "Greatest Generation" who once joined this dwindling group for breakfast every week have died. For about 15 years as many as 20 World War II veterans have been meeting on Wednesday mornings at eateries around Tooele County. It's nothing formal, just some eggs, hash browns, pancakes, coffee and usually light conversation. READ MORE:

When one of the Romeos had a birthday, Mrs. Moutogiannis would bake him a cake and everyone would sing. She remembered baking a sponge cake one time with an actual sponge. With icing making the cake look legit, the birthday boy struggled cutting pieces. Consider it a family prank.
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By Stanley Greenberg

By David M. Weinstein

  Call them an eclectic Princeton goulash.
   Thursday morning, they were nine strong around a table at The Cafe, a coffee bar at Bargain Books in the Princeton Shopping Center. READ MORE:

                                                By David Decker

Our church has a group of older retired men who meet on Tuesday mornings at a local Burger King. I assume they chose BK instead of our own church annex so they could tell lies without the guilt of doing it on the Lord's property. They call themselves the, "Romeo Club." Romeo stands for: "Retired Old Men Eating Out." Their weekly sessions have proven to be an endless source of humor and storytelling.
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Their only required uniform is the red baseball cap emblazoned with "ROMEO," although "we're thinking of getting purple dresses for a few of the guys," says member Dick Foster. Last Thursday, when their wives headed off to the Broadway Palm Dinner Theatre for a matinee of "Gypsy," 14 ROMEO members carpooled to Hooters in Fort Myers.
"We're old, but we're not dead," says Mike Edmondson as a server in tiny, tight orange shorts and an equally abbreviated T-shirt hoisted a pitcher of beer and handed full glasses out around the table. READ MORE:

By Cindy Brown

By Karen Feldman

They may wear red hats and dine out en masse, but no one would mistake this group for a chapter of the Red Hat Society.
They are, they will tell you proudly, ROMEOs — Retired Old Men Eating Out. READ MORE:

  By Cindy Brown

Howard, a Hubert resident, plans to attend the next meeting of the ROMEO (Retired Old Men Eating Out) Club in Morehead City. The informal club is comprised of about 150 World War II veterans who meet every other month for lunch and to swap "sea stories." Howard will take the booklet with him. "They may want to see this," said Howard, who was one of six of the 11 Howard children to enlist in the military. READ MORE:

  By Alice C. Elwell

"It's an important part of our lives," said 76-year-old Earle Blackwell of Taunton. Blackwell said the group has dined all over the region, from the Officer's Club in Newport, R.I., to the Monponsett restaurant in Halifax."We've hit them all," Blackwell said READ MORE:

Added to this community involvement mix is an extensive array of programs and activities aimed at the “making retirement more enjoyable” objective. These include many social events such as dances, picnics, and trips. Activities include a full golf program, a weekly bowling league, twice weekly bridge and social card playing groups, a group book discussion program, a photography group, a fishing group, and a monthly “dine around town” program – euphemistically referred to as the “ROMEO” – that is: “Retired Old Men Eating Out,” with their ladies. READ MORE:

By Paul Stephen

The others settle up their tabs and consider their next course of action. It’s a warm summer afternoon, and although parting is always sweet sorrow for this group, the decision won’t be difficult today. “Time for a nap,” the Commodore says. “Yep.” “Me too.” “See you next week. ”Till next Friday, the Romeos are adjourned. READ MORE:

BY MELODIE N. MARTIN

Steve Wright, a retired sheriff's official, spent the morning sipping Diet Mountain Dew and browsing classifieds ads. Wright comes in the store at least three days a week to meet with a group of friends that calls itself the ROMEO Club, short for Retired Old Men Eating Out. "We talk about what we did yesterday and lie about what we're going to do today," Wright said. A favorite among the courthouse crowd, Wright said the store gives him a chance to stay current with politics and other talk of the town. READ MORE: