Posted on 03/16/2010 12:13:16 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Usually, a lunch visit by the President of the United States is enough to send a sandwich shop's business through the roof.
But for the Deli Den, the then-presidential candidate Barack Obama's 2008 lunch was just the final highlight before it closed its doors.
The Hollywood deli and mainstay of the South Florida sandwich scene has served its last bowl of matzah ball soup and shuttered its doors Sunday, said owner Bernie Emano. The shop has to be out by Tuesday.
Owners claim Obama's stimulus cash -- his $53.77 lunch tab for potato latkes, Nova, cream cheese and bagels, black and white cookies and oatmeal-raisin cookies -- wasn't enough to stymie the effects of the bad economy or a hike in rent. Deli Den had been at 2881 Stirling Road for the past two decades.
The popular lunch spot's unexpected and sudden closure stunned customers who showed up for a sandwich on Monday. They found a "closed for business" sign.
Looks like Obama, who will be in Miami on April 15, and the rest of South Florida will have to find a new place to answer that lunch time hunger.
...the Obama touch once again...first Michells designer goes bankrupt now this deli he visited goes belly up...geesh!
Probably should have called Chef Ramsey instead...
I dont care what happens to obama supporters......
Obama went there to eat. I’m not sure that makes them supporters. Restaurants don’t usually turn away customers.
right to refuse?
The Obama touch works as well in Florida as in Massachusetts.
That was Ted Kennedy’s old favorite deli too.
To caption the pix..
1. WTF is this?
2. Sharpton “Just what does that boy think he is eating anyway? Notice I am sticking with the coke, the cat in here isn’t that good.”
3. Just so happy to see the ‘brood’ enjoying dessert. Mama looks like she found a roach in hers and he looks his normal, goofy self. Even the ‘child’ doesn’t look happy.
Me either.
Yet another Obama Reverse-Sally-Field Moment... “You don’t like me! You really, really don’t like me!”
Landlord with a death wish...and a vacancy.
“his $53.77 lunch tab for potato latkes...”
They deserve to go belly up charging that kind of money for a lunch.
Oh Funny! Your right!
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