Obama’s pizza order touches off bonanza for Las Vegas restaurant
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President Obama waves to the media before boarding Air Force One at McCarran International Airport after a visit to Las Vegas Thursday, Jan. 26, 2012.
Friday
27 January 2012
2:35 p.m.
Call it the Obama bump.
Since delivering a dozen pizzas and even more cannolis to President Barack Obama during his recent overnight stay in Las Vegas, Dom DeMarco's pizzeria has seen a burst of interest from customers and national media.
"It's been huge. The phone hasn't stopped ringing," said Albert Scalleat, the pizzeria's co-owner and general manager. "There's been a lot of buzz."
In addition to curious customers, Scalleat said the store had received calls and emails from celebrity news website TMZ and from media in Washington, D.C.
During Friday's lunch rush, the first since news broke of Obama's pizza order, the Dom DeMarco's dining room swarmed with hungry patrons. Scalleat estimated that the restaurant had seen a 15 percent increase in pizza orders since news got out about the president's delivery.
"We're normally crowded, but today it was extra crowded," he said. "We're as busy as we could possibly be."
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I consider myself a pizza connoisseur and was very dissapointed in DeMarcos. The prices were reasonable but I don't like the sauce. The sauce had chunks of tomatos in it. In my opinion, the sauce is much better when it is like Metro Pizza. Not a good one but the location will probably make it successful.
I like Lino's pizza. It's not a New York style though. Northside Nathan's has good deep dish pizza like in Chicago. Still searching for a great New York style slice since that place on Maryland Parkway (Amalfi's, formerly Villa?) closed.
Gotta appreciate a president who likes pizza and cannolli.
Are people such sheep that they'd start ordering pizza from a place just because Obama did?
@olbuddy, I think they might be thinking, "Well, if it's good enough for the POTUS, maybe I should give it a try.' That doesn't make them sheep, just hungry for good pizza.
Don't you have to go yell, "Get off my lawn!" right now? ; )
I havent tried DeMarcos...But Grimaldi's would have been my recommendation.
C'mon. The best pizza in Vegas is at Grimaldi's, Cugino's (by UNLV), or Vincenzo's (on Craig), depending on your desire for a particular style of crust.
I love when people argue food and talk about what's "the best" with such certainty. I learned a long time ago that what (and where) we love to eat is a completely personal preference that trying to convince people otherwise is a waste of time. Enjoy what you enjoy and be happy with it.
It's great to see this fine restaurant get the attention it deserves. Way to go, Dom DeMarco's.
This is why the brain-dead left aren't getting the power that Obama carries with his "cult of peronality"
The Pizza order and new influx of business is a microcosm of the way people think about what the President wants.
Flip it and think about this.
The President and his Cult of Personality says to stay away from Vegas and all the Cultists stay away.
Simple.
Don't give me this cult crap. Ronald Reagan put Jelly Belly on the map due to his love for them. It could be an athlete, Hollywood type, president...left or right, the masses flock to it like bees to honey.
If GWB came to Las Vegas and ate at Senor Frog, I guarantee the place would be booked solid for the next two weeks. Has nothing to do with anything other than the masses (left, right, middle) clinging to worship celebrities or VIP's
TomD,
You say it's crap and then you go on to cite other examples. Interesting.
Everybody succumbs to the Cult of Personality, it is just more apparent with zealots.
I see. Newt or Ron Paul don't have any zealot supporters. Who are you trying to fool. They all have them. In many respects the right wing fundamentalists are just as bad as the left wing extremists. It's funny how you want to take a pizza article and turn it into something nonsensical. Not sure why I even responded.
TomD,
You missed my point entirely. All of those people have mindless Cult of Personality supporters.
My example was based on the folks who can't wrap their head around the fact that people mindlessly follow what their Cult leaders say or do; hence, don't come to Nevada translates into immediate cancellation of conventions and meetings. Not just the bail-out targeted audience but all the cultists.