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Riverline Deli

Monday, December 3, 2012

New Lease on Life for Local Deli

A Riverton family has perked up the familiar Riverline Deli and hopes to draw in the locals again.

When Jon "Ben" Slashinski received that early morning phone call from a neighbor saying the street outside his store, the Riverline Deli, was flooded, all he could think about was the extensive work he and his family had just completed three months earlier.  “I thought we were going to find some water in the store, but we lucked out,” says Ben, 30, of a major water main rupture that occurred last Monday at the corner of Broad and Main streets in Riverton.  Luckily, not a drop flowed in. Slashinski is the newest owner, along with his mother, Debbie Slashinski, 53, and his brother, Shawn Slashinski, 38, of the food store in the red brick building, which opened Sept. 1. When the Slashinski family happened upon the deli in Riverton last summer…

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