Your New Favorite Restaurant

Good Day Philadelphia was on location this morning at the above restaurant. (The event? The Phily Diner is now serving alcohol!)

All I have to say is: It better be spelled that way because of the nickname of some guy named Phil.

Michael Nutter At Little Pete’s!

You know, Mayor Nutter, I were really starting to feel like I could get sick of you — already, I know! — and then you go and eat breakfast at Little Pete’s, and all is forgiven.

Then I find out you’re at Little Pete’s pretty much every day, and it actually gets confusing: How have I never seen the mayor there? As regular of a customer as I am… oh, Nutter probably goes before noon. Still, pretty awesome.

Breakfast With The World’s Best Mayor [FrankRoche.com]

Diner Owner Taking Down Philly’s Robbers One By One

A West Oak Lane diner owner shot two men who allegedly attempted to rob him yesterday. Jason Lee, owner of Sunrise Breakfast, managed to grab his revolver when one of the robbers got behind the counter.

After shooting and killing one robber, Lee then shot the other one — who had fired at him. While the robber was outside, the owner stopped him as he attempted to stumble away.

NBC 10 has, of course, an interview with Jason Lee, and they shockingly don’t promote My Name is Earl during the report. However, this part caught my eye:

This wasn’t the first time Lee was targeted. He was robbed twice in two other stores he owned. One of those times, he shot and killed a robber.

Dear Criminals of Philadelphia: You may be criminals, but I don’t want you to die. Please stop robbing Jason Lee!

Diner Owner Tells All After Killing Would-Be Robber [NBC 10]
Owner fights back, kills robber [Inquirer]

Hungry Hungry Bandits

Let me put on my Jay Leno mask for a second. (I shudder to think such a thing exists, and I even shudder to think someone would pay for it, but I’m sure it does, and I’m sure someone has.)

“Kevin, what do I love?”

“Stupid criminals!”

“That’s right…”

Okay, mask off, enough Leno mentions. (If I’m home on Monday nights, I watch “Headlines.” I not ashamed of it, I think.)

Anyway, right: We have another stupid criminal story. Here it is: A man allegedly robbed a bank in Bristol Township yesterday. Cops said he got a little over 4K from the Bank of America on Route 13.

After leaving the bank, the robber allegedly walked to the end of the shopping center, crossed a parking lot and went to the diner to get some breakfast. (NBC10, naturally, has video.)

Cops eventually rushed in and caught the man, since he only walked about 200 feet.

NBC 10 also quotes a waitress at the Sunshine Diner:

“He came in and he was ordering pancakes off the kids’ menu. And the next thing you know we’re surrounded by cops and he ran into the bathroom, ” said Kimberly Sermarini, a waitress at the Sunrise Diner. “He just pointed here and it was like, ‘I want five pancakes.’ I said, ‘But that’s a kids’ menu,’ and he was, like, ‘I want five of them.’”

Thanks for fleshing out the story, guys.

Diners get hot coffee, hot pursuit [Bucks County Courier Times]
Cops Say Pancakes Tripped Up Bank Robber [NBC 10]