Florida restaurant is big on comfort food, including the epic Cheesy Todd

That offered them with a possibility to behave on a dream to open an enormous restaurant.

And “Datz” simply what they did.

Datz Restaurant is impressed by historic Midwest and Northeast delicatessens that provide big servings, even all the way down to the identify, with the faint echo of eating places with “Z” of their names, like Katz’s Delicatessen in New York Metropolis.

However that is the place the similarities finish.

“Our prospects right here in South Tampa informed us that they wished a bit little bit of one thing totally different. They preferred the final concept of the deli sandwiches and whatnot, however they actually wished extra consolation meals,” Perry stated,

If it is consolation prospects wished, it is consolation prospects received.

Datz closed for a couple of days and reopened with the idea that exists in the present day — over-the-top American consolation meals, together with favorites just like the Nashville rooster sandwich, that includes two huge tenders slathered in scorching sauce.

However the huge cheese on the menu, that has attracted consideration from the likes of “Good Morning America,” is The Tacky Todd.

“It is only a burger, and as a substitute of a daily bun, it has fried mac and cheese. And now we have folks are available in from out of city to eat that, quite a lot of locals like it. It is a large huge eat, which is what we’re recognized for,” stated Datz undertaking supervisor John Camisa.

“I would like them to go away out of right here virtually disgustingly full and speaking about it to different folks. like ‘Go there hungry, ensure you’re actual hungry while you stroll within the door there as a result of they will pass over of there actual actual full,” Camisa stated.

The employees prides itself on providing a singular, relaxed expertise, mirrored even in its quirky identify, chosen from a whole lot of contenders, however by no means Googled prematurely. It turns on the market’s a household by that identify residing simply a few blocks from the restaurant.

“They’re most likely to this very day getting cellphone calls concerning the pastrami sandwich from Datz,” Perry stated.

The Datz expertise, in spite of everything, is about having enjoyable.

“What makes Datz actually distinctive and totally different is it is a spot to have enjoyable. Simply come, loosen up, let your hair down, put on your shorts, put on your golf garments or tennis outfit, dwelling from the seashore, and have a wonderful down-home American consolation meals, however spun up a bit bit,” Perry stated.