So how did it all begin? In 1952, my father Tom Weinberger opened his first deli in Homewood, Ill. He learned the deli business after a Chicken parts store fluttered! He did well. By 1960 he was ready to open his second store in Calumet City (home to Jake and Elwood Blues). In 1963, store number three in Munster, Indiana, opened right down the street from one of the first KFC’s in Indiana (this is where I had my first real job making sandwiches, I was 11!). Store number four popped up in Calumet City on Torrence Ave. in 1973. I was in college and worked summers. Finally in 1976 the fifth store, opened in Chicago Heights. By then most of the stores were opened for more than ten years with two of them going 40 plus. In 2003, Grapevine, Texas, opened the next generation of Weinberger’s Delis. Today we have two in Texas, providing the hundreds of varieties of sandwiches in the old deli fashion just like back in Chicago so long ago. We hope you enjoy our food.