Issue date: 10/14/04 Section: News

He's known to thousands of loyal customers simply as the Sausage Guy; but to his friends and family, he is David Littlefield.

He might as well be called the King of Multi-Tasking, because now the Sausage Guy is partaking in yet another endeavor - opening his first sausage shop right in Suffolk's backyard.

After 13 years in the food business, Littlefield has never had more sausage on his plate than he does right now. But it hasn't all been champagne wishes and sausage dreams. Littlefield can still remember the dismal days as a young entrepreneur, when he opened his first food stand outside Foxboro Stadium selling buffalo chicken.

Littlefield admitted the venture was a "complete bust." But now, at the end of October, Littlefield is slated to open his very first full-service Sausage Guy restaurant at 138 Cambridge St., the same location that Joe & Nemo's used to call home.

After his lowly days in Foxboro, Littlefield went back to the kitchen knowing that he needed to start cooking up something that would sell. From there the Sausage Guy came to be, and the rest is history.

It hasn't always been a breeze for Littlefield. After several years of uphill battling he tried his luck as the Pizza Guy in 1997, all while managing rock bands on the side. But Littlefield closed up his pizza shop after one year and ditched the rock star life altogether, deciding that full time, all the time was the way to go with sausage.

Now Littlefield's life is more like a balancing act: juggling two restaurant gigs, family life and being in twenty places at one time. Some nights he says he's lucky to find five hours of sleep after days on end of "self-made mayhem."

Littlefield's other full-time enterprise, the restaurant Salsa's in South Boston, still makes him smile at the end of the day - even when he said he's ready to pull his hair out. Knowing that "each day's business is what [I] used to do in a week," makes it all worth it, Littlefield said

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