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Danny Raskin
Senior Columnist
Siegel’s Deli gets
going under
new owners.
Edison Vushaj, Vicki Vushaj
and Elvis Vushaj
One of the most important
points that confronts the new
owners of a neighborhood
restaurant is that the new
proprietors do not neglect
one of their most significant
duties … It is a very important
one … The fervent promise of
continuing and providing even
more additional assets to the
customer’s every request if pos-
sible.
The neighborhood and sur-
rounding areas deserve this
important respect.
A takeover by new own-
ers may bring problems, but
few that cannot be resolved
… New proprietors of Siegel’s
Deli, on Maple Road, just
west of Haggerty, Commerce
Township, brothers Edison and
Elvis Vushaj, with their mother
Vicki Vushaj as manager, know
this … and are working hard to
bring much satisfaction.
Between them, they have
the experience and high desire
to accomplish a successful
takeover … Vicki is a longtime
favorite waitress at Siegel’s Deli
… She was there when it was
originally opened by Elliott
Siegel in 1994 … Soon becom-
ing a cook, too, at the same
location … along with also
being a server … Vicki’s other
talent as a cook is making those
luscious pastries that are well-
noted … Her strudels, knishes
and various house-made good-
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ies are now featured items that
many folks love having.
The three family members
have started out right … New
wall hangings, a requested wall
television set, added answers to
requests and menu additions,
prompt service, noticeable
cleanliness, and proper pricings
of items at breakfast, lunch and
dinner.
Other smart moves were
the retention in the kitchen
of George Mashlakjian, at the
locale since 2005 as cook with
Edison and Elvis … and of wait-
person Lenora “Mimi” Luca, a
favorite since 2007.
This is another example of
a name meaning absolutely
nothing … It has been the same
through three varied owner-
ships … Performance of food
prepared, service, cleanliness,
etc., are what counts … And
the new owners of Siegel’s Deli,
open seven days a week 8 a.m.-
9 p.m., seem to be working hard
in making good on their assur-
ances … a very good sign.
THEY’RE MEMBERS OF
the self-named Tuesday Supper
Club that has met every week
for the past 22 years at vari-
ous restaurants for vittles and
camaraderie … Dr. Michael
Salter, Dr. Steven Spector, Dr.
Michel Redman, Dr. Samuel
Scheinfield and Sandy Linden
… 10 years at Pepino’s in Walled
Lake until the tragic fire that
wiped out the favorite of many
three years ago … Then other
eateries … J. Alexander’s in
West Bloomfield, etc. … As
of April, the five gents will
return again to Pepino’s, now
on Orchard Lake Road, Sylvan
Lake, for its great pan-fried
rainbow trout, jumbo shrimp
and the magnificent slew of
dinner dining goodies.
YES, JODIE POLK, wife of
Executive Chef Jim Polk at
Clawson Steakhouse, 14 Mile,
south of Rochester Road,
Clawson, still makes those lus-
cious desserts … Key lime pie,
crème brulee, etc. … and there’s
plenty of hot-time music for
dancing, Wednesday through
Saturday with the Mark James
Band.
REMBERING WHEN … Leo
and Shirley Kaplan were selling
leather jackets on the weekends
at Gibraltar Trade Center …
and Leo spilled coffee on one
of them … A customer later
took the garment off a rack,
smelled it and said, “This jacket
smells like coffee” … “It should,”
Leo told him. “It was made in
Brazil.”
PET’S KORNER … “With
warm weather soon to hit our
midst, I hope, how about res-
taurateurs with outside dining
putting bowls filled with water
out for us dogs and cats? We
don’t care if they’re pretty or
not.”
MAIL DEPT. … To Manny
Gorman … Yes, Manny, those
former signs that fronted the
Brass Rails years ago were cer-
tainly beautiful works of art …
But I wonder how many people
noticed that in the one on
Adams, the carver gent is cut-
ting into a roast … In the Brass
Rail beauty by Kinsel’s, he is
cutting a fish.
OLDIE BUT GOODIE …
(Oldies are repeated on request)
A mother and her small son are
walking along the ocean shore
when a large wave comes in
and washes the boy out to sea.
The mother screams, but no
one is near, and she can’t swim.
Her son’s head bobs up and
down as he cries for help and
moves farther from shore.
Desperate, she sinks to
her knees in the sand, plead-
ing with God for mercy. She
swears she will devote herself
to good causes and be faithful
in attending synagogue if God
will spare her child. Suddenly
another huge wave crashes
in and puts her son, wet but
unhurt, on the sand. She lifts
her face above, extends both
arms and cries, “He had a hat!”
CONGRATS … To Gus
Kasapis on his birthday … To
Joanne Tringale on her birthday
… To Alex Winkler on his birth-
day. •
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