The Mitt Restaurant

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Restaurant | Bar | Pizzeria

586-493-0500 | 143 N. Main St. | Mt Clemens, MI, 48043

Fox 2 Detroit’s Made in Michigan Special Featuring Ken Leonard and The Mitt Restaurant

Ken Leonard Live on Fox 2 Cooking The Mitt Chicken Pot Pie!

The Macomb Daily

The Mitt Eatery is a Tribute to Michigan (Click for Macomb Daily June.pdf)

The Mitt in downtown Mount Clemens is the kind of restaurant the Pure Michigan tourism boosters will love. Located in the former Full Kilt on Main Street, The Mitt celebrates the Great Lakes State in a variety of ways including using mostly ingredients found in Michigan and offering a visual tribute through a wall-length mural of the Mackinac Bridge and even a lodge area, a nod to the cabins Up North.

By Mitch Hotts, June 30, 2012

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Detroit Free Press

Mitt Romney stops at The Mitt in Mt. Clemens (Click for Freep.com PDF.pdf)

Mitt the man visited Mitt the restaurant this afternoon. GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney made a quick stop at a downtown Mt. Clemens restaurant called The Mitt, where the owner presented him with an official eatery T-shirt that said," Got Mitt?" on the back, a take-off on the "Got Milk? ad campaign.

By Zlati Meyers, Detroit Free Press Business Writer, February 24, 2012

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The Detroit News

In Mount Clemens, Romney stops by The Mitt (Click for Detroit News.pdf)

Mount Clemens — Happy hours won't start until The Mitt restaurant opens for good in Mount Clemens. But for more than 50 supporters of Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney, the good times kicked off Friday at the soon-to-be opened eatery. The Massachusetts governor made a quick stop at the restaurant this afternoon — part of his effort to win Michigan's primary Tuesday.

By Jim Lynch, February 24, 2012

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The Macomb Daily

While in the Mitt, Mitt visits The Mitt in Mount Clemens (Click for Macomb Daily.pdf)

If the entrance looks like a mitt and it has a sign labeled The Mitt, then it must be a Mitt Romney restaurant, right? Well, not exactly. Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney made a campaign appearance on Friday at a new downtown Mount Clemens eatery called The Mitt, serving as the honored guest among 125 people who gathered for a private party before the business has officially opened.

By Chad Selweski, February 24, 2012

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ABC News

Romney Hopes His Name Doesn’t Hurt New Michigan Restaurant (Click for ABC News.pdf)

MT. CLEMENS, Mich. — Mitt Romney stopped by a yet-to-be opened restaurant bearing his own name in between campaign events today, telling the owner that he hopes his name isn’t a “problem” for business. “I hope the name does not end up being a problem for you, it hasn’t been for me,” said Romney, shaking hands with Ken Leonard, the owner of the new restaurant The Mitt.

By Emily Friedman, February 24th, 2012

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Reuters

Mitt Romney in search of more Mitts at Mitt restaurant (Click for Reuters.pdf)

MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich., Feb 24 (Reuters) - Are there any more Mitts out there? Mitt Romney is looking for them. Campaigning in Michigan, the Republican presidential candidate took a liking to a restaurant called The Mitt on Friday. The pizza eatery was not actually named after Romney, a native son of Michigan but it inspired Romney to give a history of his name and how he has searched in vain for other Mitts.

By Steve Holland, February 24, 2012

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The Huffington Post

“The Mitt” Restaurant In Mt. Clemens, Mich. Gets Mitt Romney's Blessing (Click for Huffington Post.pdf)

Sometimes it can be hard to figure out why politicians visit one restaurant over another on the campaign trail -- just think of the President's recent disastrous take-out stop at Great Eastern in San Francisco. But it's not hard to see how Mitt Romney chose where to eat when he was passing through Mt. Clemens, Mich. How could he resist going to an eatery with the same name as himself?

February 28, 2012

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The Christian Science Monitor

Mitt admits there are few Mitts at The Mitt in Mich. (Click for Christian Science Monitor.pdf)

Campaigning in Michigan, the Republican presidential candidate took a liking to a restaurant called The Mitt on Friday.

By Reuters / February 24, 2012

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CNN.com

Mitt at The Mitt (Click for CNN.com.pdf)

Posted by CNN Political Producer Rachel Streitfeld

Mt. Clemens, Michigan (CNN) – On a swing Friday through a Michigan restaurant called The Mitt, GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney found himself musing about his uncommon moniker.

February 24, 2012

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Los Angeles Times

Mitt Romney finds the game has changed (Click for LA Times.pdf)

In any other election year, he might be the Republican presidential nominee by now. But it's a whole new game. Mitt Romney meets Ken Leonard, owner of a restaurant in Mount Clemens, Mich., called The Mitt.

Kimberly P. Mitchell, McClatchy-Tribune / February 24, 2012

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