President Bush stops to talk with patrons at Stamey's barbecue restaurant before having lunch with community leaders in Greensboro, N.C., Wednesday, Oct. 18, 2006.
The President’s lunch
Greensboro -- Lunch is usually a busy time at Stamey's Barbecue restaurant on High Point Road in Greensboro.Now add the Commander-in-Chief, a Secret Service detail and a police escort to the mix.
“Everything was a whirlwind by time he came in,” said Barbara Bare, waitress. “We suspected he was coming because we don’t usually take reservations middle of lunch.”
It was a last minute decision. The president's advance team called and asked for a reservation just twenty minutes before the president pulled into the parking lot.
Good thing owner Chip Stamey came into work Wednesday. “We served him everything we had,” said Stamey. “He particularly liked the hush puppies and peach cobbler.”
[Barbara Bare adds that the president ate “barbeque and a lot of it” with ice cream for desert.]
All that food didn’t stop Mr. Bush from meeting and greeting.
“He came in and spoke to everybody,” said Todd Robinson, customer.
This is not the first time the president has eaten Stamey’s cooking. Chip Stamey said he sent take out to Mr. Bush once before when the president was in the Piedmont.
(Source: myfoxwghp.com )