UPDATE: Lee Street Deli will keep its weekend late-night hours

Thursday, April 29, 2010 | 4:42 p.m. CDT; updated 10:19 a.m. CDT, Friday, April 30, 2010

COLUMBIA — Lee Street Deli will no longer be canceling its late-night hours on Fridays and Saturdays, cook Jefferson Shuck said. He said the reason to keep the East Campus eatery open late on weekends was "unspecified."

Saturday on its Twitter account, the restaurant said that late-night hours — from 1 to 3 a.m. — were canceled for an "unknown" period of time. When asked Sunday, two cooks said the decision to not provide hungry night owls with the infamous "juicy burger" was not final.

Recently, the deli had its front door screen kicked in and the sign bolted to the front of the building was removed. The tweet announcing the cancellation of late-night hours mentioned that an employee's bike had been stolen.

David Hornig and John Horner, both cooks at the deli, talked about vandalism in the past. They said clocks have been stolen off the walls, mannequins have mysteriously walked off the premises and a stolen newsstand was found in the front yard of an MU fraternity.

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