A Cleveland deli made a TikTok about chicken salad. Now customers are traveling from near and far for a taste.

CLEVELAND — One small deli on Cleveland’s East Aspect made a brief video on TikTok a few hen salad they promote and the affect has been huge.

81st Avenue Deli off of Superior Avenue is well-liked within the space.

“We’ve been right here for a really very long time. We’ve been right here 25 years,” stated Wael Herbawi, the proprietor. “Our meals has at all times been well-known.”

However they’ve by no means been fairly as busy as they’re now.

“You couldn’t even stroll in right here yesterday,” stated Herbawi.

The publicity is all due to Tenisha Godfrey and her love for hen salads.

“I’ve identified them since I used to be like 13 years outdated. They’re like household,” she stated. “Anytime I come right here I both get the corned beef or the hen salad.”

Just a few months in the past, Herbawi began posting a few of the meals they make on TikTok, that includes actual clients reviewing it.

In August he featured Godfrey.

“Nisha got here in I stated ‘You need a salad? She liked it. I hooked it up. I put every thing on it for her and we took slightly TikTok,” he stated.

The video posted to the video-sharing platform is fairly easy.

“Y’all higher come up right here and get one in every of these,” Godfrey stated within the video. “It’s a hen salad from 81st Deli, Superior. I received hen, pickles, banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, onion.”

Up to now week that video has blown up on TikTok.

“They’re saying your factor went viral, your factor went viral! I’m like what are you speaking about? Then I look and I’m like what are you speaking about,” stated Herbawi.

The video has been considered greater than 8.7 million instances and has racked up 1.4 million likes. Folks suppose Godfrey is hilarious and the salad, scrumptious.

“They are saying that my voice is reassuring, like ‘Oh my gosh,I like you,’ ‘I can’t cease watching this video,’ persons are making songs out of this video. It’s so humorous,” stated Godfrey.

Even celebrities just like the singer Lizzo has taken discover, placing the video on her personal TikTok web page.

“That’s when the followers and views actually began coming by, when Lizzo did it,” she stated.

The likes and feedback are turning into new clients and enterprise for the deli. Herbawi stated persons are touring kind close to and much for the salad.

“Chicago, Atlanta, California Las Vegas, New York, throughout and throughout Ohio,” he stated.

Godfrey hopes to show her newfound fame into extra enterprise for different eating places and institutions within the neighborhood she grew up in.

“I attempt to let individuals know there’s extra to Cleveland’s city neighborhoods,” she stated. “I wish to go to totally different eating places and take a look at meals and see if I can get even simply 100 individuals to go in there and patronize them.”