BALDWINSVILLE — Collar’s B’ville Pickle Deli — a new eatery serving hot sandwiches, homemade soups, and salads — made its grand opening on St. Patrick’s Day. The event included Baldwinsville’s mayor, Richard Clarke. The deli, located at 12 West Genesee St. in the village, first opened to customers the day before. CNYBJ spoke […]
BALDWINSVILLE — Collar’s B’ville Pickle Deli — a new eatery serving hot sandwiches, homemade soups, and salads — made its grand opening on St. Patrick’s Day. The event included Baldwinsville’s mayor, Richard Clarke.
The deli, located at 12 West Genesee St. in the village, first opened to customers the day before.
CNYBJ spoke with John Collar, the deli’s owner, on March 26. He says business has been good in the eatery’s early days.
“The response has been tremendous,” Collar says. “We’re getting a lot of repeat customers.” He declined to provide financial information.
Collar and his wife, Cindy, opened the 530-square-foot deli after more than two months of planning. He says it took a lot of work, including buying all of the equipment and hiring local contractors to get everything set up.
“But I like doing that stuff,” he says.
Collar, a retired used-car salesman, grew up in Baldwinsville. He says the neighborhood never had a stand-alone deli.
He saw the need, and he was bored after his retirement. Cindy Collar was also retired after working for the insurance and financial-services firm, Nationwide Insurance, for 37 years, according to her husband.
So, the Collars decided to start planning their new venture in January.
“It’s a hobby we can make money from,” John Collar says. “We’ve been busy.”
While the Collars are currently the fledgling business’s only employees, John Collar says he might hire one additional employee to help out.
Collar posts daily soup specials on the deli’s Facebook page. The page had 575 “likes” as of March 31. It also had 11 public reviews, with nine giving the eatery 5 stars and two reviewers giving it 4 stars.
B’ville Pickle Deli’s menu, posted online, features an assortment of subs, wraps, the soup of the day, salads, and drinks.
The deli is currently open from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m., Monday through Saturday. However, the owners are considering extending the deli’s Thursday and Saturday hours to 6 p.m., according to a March 30 Facebook posting.