"I'm going to make the check out to Officer Nazario's trust fund," Olivieri said. "We'll just do it quietly."
He explained later that the day's proceeds, which he estimated at $1,500, would go to the family of Philadelphia Police Officer Isabel Nazario, who was killed last month when a stolen car hit her cruiser.
"I'm crying," said Al Beiler, who walked over from his Amish bakery down the aisle to commiserate with Olivieri. "You're not leaving. You'll be here tomorrow."
Olivieri shook his head. "It's kind of a relief that it's finally coming to a conclusion," he said, although he suspected that the reality would not sink in until next week, after he has cleared out all the equipment, put it in storage, and awakened to his internal alarm clock at 6 a.m. Monday with nowhere to go.
His five full-time and five part-time employees, several of whom have worked for him for more than a decade, said they had not found new jobs yet.
"Seventy-six? Seventy-six!" Virginia Hartwell hollered, summoning a customer to the register. "For here or to go?"
As of tomorrow, Hartwell, who has been on Olivieri's staff since 1997, will be out of a job. What will she do?
"I have no idea."
Olivieri, however, has plans. He still has his cheesesteak operation at Citizens Bank Park, and hopes to have a new Center City location within a few months.
In the meantime, he said, "I'm going to relax. Really relax."
