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One of the hottest bands in town." Danny Raskin, Jewish News "Royal Oak band leader extraordinaire Simone Vitale..." Bob Talbert, Detroit Free Press • Weddings •Anniversaries • Private/Corporate Parties • Bar/Bat Mitzvahs 03i1J za zM krh B 110 A N D Call Simone for the best personal service in town, with an exciting night of dancing and fun at your party. (810) 544-7373 Orders come from everywhere has reached unbelievable pro- , is rated among the nation's top carry-out-only deli- ... and prompted an author to portions. Thoughts always came into catessens. Yet Star Deli on come in from California strictly 12 Mile, east of Telegraph, to interview Sid and Harry for his Sid's and Harry's minds ... Sure could also rank as one of the book on the best delicatessens in they would consider opening a sit- America. down delicatessen, but only if the country's smallest. The nationwide comic strip, right location came along ... not Like the axiom goes about good things coming in little packages, "Cathy," that appears locally in until ... And since they are doing the saying might hold true too for the Detroit Free Press, has used so much business in tray cater- this tiny carry-out deli that does the inside of Star Deli as its back- ing, the thought has also come of opening a place where strictly more business in a day than ground. At this little 1,200-square-foot party trays can be ordered. many restaurants do in a week. They are also looking And according to carloads of carry-out delicatessen, to perhaps open anoth- customers, many with names over 10,000 trays a year er Star Deli ... But that comprise a who's who in — meat, dairy and salad again, the location and metropolitan Detroit Jewry, — are made ... It's noth- customer-convenience among oodles of others, the rea- ing for Star to slice a quarter of a million are of extreme impor- son is most apparent. tance. There is a high-quality consis- pounds of corned beef in Of much significance tency that never wavers ... And a year ... and sell just un- is their being on the Star's ability to present such high der 100,000 pounds of DANNY RASKIN premises ... Presently, LO CAL quality is probably because of the tuna salad ... A year ago, either Sid or Harry or COLU MNIST low overhead costs and huge vol- Sid and Harry began both are almost always ume ... The latter provides potent making fat-free tuna sal- ad ... At first, people were skepti- there. purchasing power. The carry-out menu at Star Star Deli is only 1,200 square cal, but after tasting it became feet ... with 600 of them being the firm believers ... As a result, over Deli is huge in comparison to when it opened in 1972 ... In the kitchen from where comes a bevy 30 percent sold is now fat-free. Also about a year-and-a-half first year, only 1,500 trays were of homemade goodies like blintzes, soups, potato salad, tole ago, it began slicing its own lox ... made ... a far cry from the over slaw, chicken salad, stuffed cab- becoming one of the few carry-out 10,000 of today. Back then, they didn't even bage, chopped liver, knishes, delis in the nation to do this. Next year will be the 25th an- make tuna salad, soup, chicken rugelach, etc. ... Sid's wife, Rose, makes the gefilte fish, kugels and niversary of Star Deli, which salad, rice pudding, potato lathes, opened its doors under Sid's own- fruit salad, Julienne or Greek sal- other goodies. ads, kugel, rugelach, sour cream About the party trays, they ership in May 1972. Following World War II Sid, a coffee cake, etc. ... And they cer- have become somewhat of a trademark of excellence that Polish citizen who had been sent tainly never dreamed of selling seems to place Star Deli on a top to Siberia, went to a medical 50,000 pounds of turkey a year. school in the American sector of When Sid bought the little Star rung. Corned Beef Center, with its Owner Sid Neuman and his Germany, coming here in 1949. 1972 was his first venture into small volume, the vision was to manager son, Harry Neuman, have developed an uncanny list the delicatessen business ... Harry change it completely around ... of devoted customers who simply came a few years later, and he No more rolled turkey, plenty of would not settle for anything but also had never worked in a deli ... homemade selections and a de- The success they have created cent carry-out menu. a tray from Star. One refrigerated case soon became four, plus a walk-in cooler ... filled with smoked fish, kippered salmon, herring, etc. The expanded choices of to- day also include tuna pasta, pasta primavera, seafood sal- ad, etc. Harry regularly visits other operations locally and out-of- town with wife Star Deli's Sid Lauren, a fine cook in her own and Harry Neuman. right ... The pur- pose is not to be like anyone else or steal ideas, but to notice ways of better serving their customers ... Many times this can be done away from one's own setup and in a more relaxed atmos- phere. Star Deli does a lot of cater- ing to privately owned corpo- rate jets ... People traveling will take home many items ... T ,