“Y’all better come up here and get one of these,” Tenisha Godfrey says in her viral TikTok video. “It’s a chicken salad from 81st Deli, Superior. I got chicken, pickles, banana peppers, bell peppers, tomatoes, onion.”
By now you’ve probably heard the sound about the chicken salad from 81st Street Deli. The video has amassed 16.2 million views and 14,000 comments.
“We’ve been here for a very long time. We’ve been here 25 years,” said Wael Herbawi, the owner. “Our food has always been well known.”
The video has gotten them more business than ever before thanks to Godfrey’s viral video.
Godfrey said she has known Herbawi and family since she was about 13 and they’re like her family. She said usually when she comes in she orders a chicken salad or corned beef.
Herbawi featured Godfrey in a video back in August.
“Nisha came in, I said, ‘You want a salad? She loved it. I hooked it up. I put everything on it for her, and we took a little TikTok,” he said.
Celebrities including Lizzo, Tia Mowry, have used Godfrey’s sound for their TikTok videos.
Herbawi said he’s gained a lot of new customers from the video including out-of-towners from Chicago, Atlanta, Las Vegas, and more.
