Pool Report of Obama's Stop at a Restaurant in Greensboro

TIME: 5:00pm ET

EVENT: Barack Obama Visit to Stephanie's Home Style Restaurant (Greensboro, NC)

Pool report from Stephanie's II Home Style Restaurant, Greensboro, N.C., where the slogan is "We hope you came hungry" 5:00-5:25 p.m.

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A couple dozen early-bird diners were scattered around the booths and tables at the large restaurant when Sen. Obama arrived, and more arrived during the course of his visit but it wasn't a madhouse like the Durham event.

He went up to the counter and asked, “How are the wings? Are they good?” The server said yes, so he ordered a dozen, plain, no hot sauce, no bleu cheese. The tab was $15.99 and he left a $20. (He took the wings to go, so no description available on how many he ate, etc.)

While waiting for the wings he made the rounds. The patrons were mostly African-American. None was expecting to see him (the campaign gave the restaurant short notice they were coming).

For Lamont Faison, 37, who was having dinner with his mom there, a regular Monday night routine for them, it was a big deal. Faison is developmentally disabled, and his mom said he will be voting for the first time in his life tomorrow, and that the reason he registered is because of Obama.

“I hope I get your vote,” Obama told him. “You will,” said Faison's mom, Angelia Lester. “I will,” Faison nodded.

Obama stopped for several minutes at a table of four nurses and health care workers. They talked about the need for long-term care for aging seniors, and about the high price of gas.

A table of nine was filled with visitors from Bermuda and Ohio who were in town for a church conference. “When you go back (to the conference) you gotta line up everybody from Indiana and North Carolina and tell them they gotta vote,” Obama said. But then he cautioned them not to tell who to vote for “because of church and state.”

He stopped to chat with a man named Tracy Spinks, 46, a Mercedes-Benz technician. “What's the best model?” Obama asked. “The SL,” Spinks said. “That's a nice car,” Obama agreed.