Carlos Ramirez never expected to say goodbye this soon. Neither did the customers who crowded the Tomales Deli and Café to bid him farewell last week. He had worked in the popular neighborhood sandwich shop for 20 years and owned it for more than a decade. Still just 58, Mr. Ramirez had hoped to keep making sandwiches there until he retired.
But on Friday, he served his last steak bagel and his last artichoke-pesto…