Sessions West Coast Deli

09/10/2026

Recently I talked about hospitality being my spiritual gift. A couple of people asked what that actually means outside of a church building.

Before I get into it, I want to say something about the people who have been with me doing this. Some of them a long time now. It says job on the schedule, and what they actually give this place goes way past that. I am grateful for every one of them.

Here is what it looks like on a Thursday.

It looks like somebody catching the door before a mom with a stroller has to figure it out on her own. It looks like knowing the guy who comes in at 11:15 does not feel like explaining his order again. It looks like reading a table and knowing whether these people want to be talked to or left alone.

None of that is on a training checklist. You cannot really teach it either. You can only hire people who already have it and then get out of their way.

Are we perfect at it? Not even close. Some days the line is long and we are behind and somebody waits longer than they should have. But we try, every shift, and the trying is the part I care about.

We have been doing this a long time and that is still the part of this job I like the most.

If you work in this industry, I want to hear from you. What is the smallest thing you do for people that nobody ever notices? Put it in the comments.

Thanks for supporting a small West Coast deli. Eating Radical.

09/08/2026

OC parents, it's Tuesday. You know what that means.

Kids eat free at Sessions.

To everyone who's been rolling in with us since the beginning: you know the drill. Grab your table, let them get loud, we'll handle the rest.

And if this is the first you're hearing about it, come find out what you've been missing. We're already curious which one ends up being your usual.

See you tonight.

09/07/2026

So here's the truth, I'm a church guy.

And often in Church people talk about spiritual gifts.

Well, shocker, mine is hospitality. Imagine that! Right?

So on a day like Labor Day, it gets me so stoked that people get a day off from working hard year round. But today (for people like me) it's our day to shine.

A few friends doing this well come to mind, figured it's a good opportunity to shout them out!


Alicia Cox

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Edward Moffatt

Hospitality is why we do what we do. This gift of hospitality that I was born with is meant to be given away.

So cruise in, give us some high fives, and let us live with purpose, doing what we were meant to do!

09/01/2026

There's a reason Tuesday sounds different in here.

It's the high chairs. The booths pushed together. The kid at the counter taking a full minute to decide what to get.

A lot of you found us a long time ago. Before the car seat, before the stroller parked by the door. You didn't stop coming. You just started bringing more people with you.

Now the kids know each other. They start at their own tables and end up at somebody else's. Parents look up halfway through and realize they've been talking to a stranger for twenty minutes.

So we made room for it.

Kids eat free on Tuesdays. One free kids meal with every adult entrée.

See you tonight!

09/01/2026

Let’s gooooo turning lemons into lemonade today!

Tag some friends with kids!

08/28/2026

Catering is the easiest place in this business to cut corners.

We do not have a catering kitchen.

We get asked about it a lot. People assume there is a warehouse somewhere with a separate crew and a separate menu for the big orders.

There isn't.

Your order gets built on the same line, in the same shop, by the same crew feeding the guy who just walked in off the sand. Same bread. Same produce. Same standard whether it is one sandwich or eighty.

That is on purpose. The minute you build a separate menu for groups, you are admitting the real food lives somewhere else.

Six shops across the OC also means your order comes from the one closest to you. Shorter drive, better food when it lands.

Thirteen years in, that part has never changed.

If you are the one ordering for everybody, comment RADICAL or send us a DM and we will get you set up.

Thanks for supporting a small West Coast deli. Eating Radical.

08/25/2026

08/19/2026

Thirteen years.

That is long enough to notice things.

Like how some of you have been coming in since the early days. You had your order down before we had your name down. Solo stop, quick lunch, back out the door.

Then somewhere along the way the order got bigger. An extra sandwich. Then a kids cup. Then a high chair pulled over to the end of the table.

We have watched a lot of tables grow like that.

It is easy to think of a deli as just a place you eat. But thirteen years in the same neighborhoods means we end up in the background of a lot of your life. The lunch after the water. The dinner nobody felt like cooking. The stop on the way home from practice.

We would love to stay in the background of it.

So every Tuesday, kids eat free. No coupon, no code, nothing to show us. Come in, order what you want, and the small ones are on us.

Bring all of them. The loud one too.

Thirteen years down. We are here for the rest of it.