Obama Small Business Sandwich Summit At Edison Tastee Subway Shop

by NowPublic Staff | July 28, 2010 at 12:15 pm

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President Obama Meets Owners of Small Businesses At Sandwich Shop In New Jersey

Everytime President Obama has a lunch meeting it is dubbed a "summit" of some sort - first we had the "hamburger summit" at Ray's Hell Burger in Maryland between Obama and Russian President Medvedev.

Obama Hamburger Summit

Now, there is the sandwich summit at the Tastee Sub Shop in Edison, New Jersey where President Obama met with four small business owners.

Obama ordered at the counter at Tastee Sub Shop, a blue-and-white, one-story restaurant in Edison. He went for the "Super Sub" but begged off on getting the 12-inch size, noting that he is about to turn 49 and needed to go for a sandwich one-half the size.

The meeting with small business owners is part of Obama legislative attempt to drum up support for the Democrats small business tax credit bill.

The bill, which the Senate is expected to vote on as early as today, would provide small businesses with tax breaks and loan guarantees, including exempting certain small business investments from the capital gains tax. It would also create a $30 billion pool for community banks to encourage small business lending.