If you’re looking for a food business that thrived during the pandemic, ask Dan Martino aboutwhich started on a Port Richmond corner and opened a branch in Old City, appropriately enough, on “Pi Day,” 3/14.
Fortunately, the property at Lehigh Avenue and Belgrade Street has a large window and a wide sidewalk on Lehigh Avenue, a major thoroughfare. With indoor occupancy curtailed, Martino locked the door and set up Little Susie’s for walk-up business. “People who are walking their dogs, or running, or going to work in the morning find [the walk-up window] saves them a lot of the time and pressure of going into a building,” Martino said. It’s also safer for employees, especially at 7 a.m.
Martino is following the same format at the new location, which replaced a longtime passport-photo shop at Second and Chestnut Streets, across from the Customs House. Customers order from a window on the Chestnut Street side and pick up at a Second Street window.