The city’s only black-market grilled-cheese dealer is hanging up his spatula.
“Ronnie,” the out-of-work Wall Street banker who last summer started grilling the sandwiches in his East Village apartment and selling them on street corners, parlayed the health-code-violating gig into a real restaurant job.
“It was nice being an outlaw for a while,” the secretive cheeseslinger told The Post. “But starting Monday, I will be the manager of a high-end American restaurant in Midtown.”
Although the new job won’t involve food preparation, the restaurant’s owners were impressed with the combination of Ronnie’s financial background and the food-service skills he learned on the streets.
Since The Post first reported about his business in August, the cheese man grew his business to 30 to 50 sandwiches a day at as much as $7 a pop.
“I upped the quality of the bread and ingredients as it went on,” he said. “I really enjoyed feeding people all over the city, but I guess it had to come to an end at some point.”