Rachel Ray gives retirement gift to longtime Plainview waitress
A TV star has given a longtime Long Island waitress a special retirement gift. Cooking show host Rachel Ray honored Hicksville's Sylvia Smith with a Caribbean cruise. The 86-year-old just retired
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Oct 27, 2016, 7:33 PM
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A TV star has given a longtime Long Island waitress a special retirement gift.
Cooking show host Rachel Ray honored Hicksville's Sylvia Smith with a Caribbean cruise.
The 86-year-old just retired from waitressing at the Plainview Diner after 43 years.
In a segment taped to air today, Ray calls Smith "my kind of rock star."
Smith says after her cruise, she wants to work with veterans or kids.
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