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Broad Street Deli & Market

“Simply Delicious” with a “Feeling of Community”

By Crissy Neville
Photos Courtesy of Kelly Jones Photography
One café has the corner on lunch in Harnett County; located due to events just a few short years later. Jeff started a new ca-
on the corner of Broad and Wilson in downtown Dunn, it has reer with Bay Hill Seafood — he is their current regional sales
the heartbeat, too. Broad Street Deli is its name and lunch, and manager — and the couple opened Broad Street Deli — in the
great service has been its game since 2005. same building of a former school supply store to which Jeff
was a salesman.
Broad Street Deli & Market, 129 East Broad Street, is owned
and operated by Dunn residents Jamie and Jeff Adkins. The “I love waiting tables and connecting with people, and Jeff
couple met at East Carolina University in 1992, coincidentally loves to cook,” Jamie said. “We had always said that we want-
— or not — in a Greenville restaurant. The North Carolina ed to own a small restaurant one day, so when this corner loca-
natives were the perfect pair, each bringing a food and tion came available, we decided it was now or never.”
beverage industry background to the table. Jeff, a self-taught
gourmet from Ayden, and Jamie, a Pinehurst girl and former Fortunately for Harnett County, they chose now.
waitress, married in 1994 and moved to Dunn in ’96.
With Jeff working full-time outside of Dunn, he cannot work
In reading the menu of their lives, one might say Jeff’s first in the day-to-day operations of the deli. However, Jamie said,
career with a school supply company that required travel up “He is instrumental behind the scenes in creating new sand-
and down I-95 — hence the move to Dunn — was providential wich or salad ideas.” He even had the brainstorm to create and

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