The owners of famed Carnegie Deli slapped an upstart Pittsburgh eatery and catering company with a lawsuit Wednesday saying the new business is full of baloney for using its trademarked name.
The 74-year-old Midtown tourist hot spot known for its “foot-high” corned beef and pastrami sandwiches filed the Manhattan federal court suit against Carnegie Delicatessen and Diner in Pittsburgh, which opened in March and bills itself as “the only true American delicatessen.”
“The trademark of Carnegie Deli is just too famous and too well-known for other people to be trading on it,” the deli owner’s lawyer, Charles Knull, told The Post.
He said his clients before filing the suit reached out to the Pittsburgh copycats and asked them to change their eatery’s name – but were snubbed.
“We will pursue this to the ends of the Earth,” said Knull.
The suit cites all the countless ways Carnegie Deli is famous, including references to it in Adam Sandler’s “Chanukkah Song” and various write-ups.
Carnegie wants the Pittsburgh knock-off to stop using its name, destroy all its signage and pay unspecified money damages.
Message left with the Pittsburgh eatery were not immediately returned.