Dairy Godmother’s Owner Doesn’t Want the Obama Bump That Ray’s Hell Burger Got

Ever since President Obama and his daughters visited the Dairy Godmother on Saturday, business at the Del Ray custard shop has increased by 20 percent, enough that owner Liz Davis has had to add extra staff to some shifts. Davis, however, thinks the worst is yet to come.

“My guess is that it’s this weekend when it’s going to hit,” says Davis, a Culinary Institute of America graduate and former pastry chef who opened Dairy Godmother eight years ago.

But here’s the thing: Davis doesn’t want to alter her business plan, or expand her brand, like Michael Landrum had to do following the president and vice president’s run to Ray’s Hell Burger in May. She’s content running her small independent shop at its current volume.

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