CARTERET – A woman and her young daughter in pigtails and a Disney princess T-shirt wandered up and placed their lunch orders: two smash burgers with fries.

“Mommy, can I get a banana shake with that, pleeeeeease?” the girl asked.

A playful eye-roll later, Mom nodded yes.

Brunswick Burger House at 215 Roosevelt Ave. was already doing a brisk business last Friday, even though just that morning employees, friends, family members and members of New Brunswick City Market Board Hasan Raza and Brittany (Spanos) Wooden marked the restaurant’s official opening with a ribbon-cutting ceremony.

No sooner had Vincent Bellino, the chief of staff for Carteret Mayor Daniel J. Reiman, finished reading a proclamation welcoming owner Omar Habib and his business partner/cousin, Ali Jeelani, to town than

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