This restaurant's got the President's seal of approval

June 9, 2011

Founding partner of Synergy Restaurant Consultants, Dean Small, was asked to extend his restaurant expertise in the latest Politico article.By MJ LeeNearly a week after President Barack Obama’s unannounced visit to a Rudy’s Hot Dog joint in Toledo, Ohio, the residents of Five Points are still abuzz about the unexpected presidential visit to their neighborhood.“The locals have been driving me nuts and going crazy,” said Harry Dionyssiou, whose family operates six Rudy’s diners. “Everybody wants to sit at the same table, on the same chair that the president sat in; they want to eat the same thing that he ate.”Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0611/56554.html#ixzz1OpbaqSpn

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