All the diners seem to be enjoying their deli specialties while chat-ting and sipping soda from glass bottles through paper straws. While you're waiting to place your order you glance around the room and take in the i people sitting at tables covered in red and white checked oilcloth enjoying their luncheon delights. You approach the counter filled with partially cut wheels of cheese, whole smoked hams, roasted white turkey breast, cooked-to-perfection roasted beef, salamis and fresh sausages and you detect the smell of fresh dill coming from an open pickle barrel. As you enter, you hear the ring of the tin bell at the top of the doorframe, and the sound of your heels on the worn wooden floor echoing throughout the small cluttered room. You stop to study the chalkboard menu featuring today's sandwich special that stands on an easel outside. As you approach the corner, some wonderful aromas are wafting through the wooden screen door of the neighborhood delicatessen. There's probably a barbershop, perhaps a milliner, definitely a five-and-dime, and of course, a mom-and-pop hard-ware store.
#Old tyme pantry windows#
Imagine you are leisurely walking down Main Street of a small town in 1960, taking your time, peering through shop windows as you pass them. to 3 p.m.Lipari Old Tyme is inspired by an older time. The anniversary celebration runs from 9 a.m. Prizes include reusable grocery bags, water bottles, several pounds of meat and cheese, gift baskets, cookies, pies and more. Today, Olde Thyme is offering a “balloon pop special” where customers can win a prize that is associated with each balloon. “You have to have a good customer base to survive, and I think we have that.”īrunk is giving back to his customers this weekend, as the company is celebrating its 10-year anniversary. “They’re usually talking to me since I’m in here a lot, so they see the owner and they know how we operate. “It’s that personal, one-on-one connection that I think people appreciate,” he said.
#Old tyme pantry drivers#
While fresh, locally sourced products are one of the businesses’ main drivers of success, Brunk said customer service has also played a vital role. “It’s a little store with a lot of stuff,” Brunk said with a smile. Other popular items include farm-fresh eggs, candies, homemade noodles, coffee, spices, baking supplies, bagged snacks, houseware, jar goods and more. The deli carries everything from turkey and ham to beef jerky and bologna, along with a wide variety of cheeses. Our customers comment all the time about how our stuff stays in the fridge much longer than everybody else’s.”īrunk said the deli is the biggest draw that keeps customers coming back. “It keeps everything fresher, and that really makes a difference.
“We get about three semi (trucks) a week, so our stuff comes in very fresh and our turnaround is very short,” he said. This is especially important with the deli meats and cheeses, which are sliced to order. The advantage of buying local, he said, is the products are still fresh when they arrive. “It’s nice to have that back-and-forth between us and the local suppliers,” Brunk said.
The grocery store also supplies meats and cheeses to the Elida Depot and works with Lima dessert shop Sara’s Sweets and Bluffton-based Shirley’s Gourmet Popcorn. Olde Thyme Pantry carries bottled milk from a farmer in Jackson Center, baked goods from an Elida couple, meats and cheeses from an Amish retailer in Holmes County and honey from an Elida beekeeper. “If you support the little guy, I think it helps us all here in the community.” “I like to support the little guy,” Brunk said, admitting that his grocery store is also a smaller retailer when compared to big box stores. Owner Mike Brunk, who runs the store with his wife Dolores, said buying local is something he takes great pride in. Main St., the bulk food shop specializes in unique offerings that are mostly produced by local distributors in Ohio.
ELIDA - Like its name suggests, The Olde Thyme Pantry takes customers back to the days when milk came in bottles and local farmers were a grocery store’s main suppliers.
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