ST. PAUL, Minn. -- When Barack Obama gave his speech at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minn., earlier this summer, it was the best business day Bonnie Andert’s small sandwich shop Blink Bonnie Subs had ever seen.

It only fueled her excitement for the the Republican National Convention at the Xcel, she expected a windfall.

After all, her tiny shop is only about 100 yards from the hockey arena, where tens of thousands of people are congregating for the four-day extravaganza.

So, Andert hired more staff, ordered extra meat and produce and put a sign out front advertising the shop would be open 24 hours-a-day during the convention.

But on Day 3 of the convention, that windfall had not even come close to materializing.

The business just hasn't come, in fact, it is down to a trickle. Over the lunch hour on Wednesday only one person was in the shop having lunch.

Hello? CNN? Your Truck Is Blocking My Sub Shop!

“I am just furious, I am like everybody," the mother of five said. "I am just trying to make a living. This was supposed to help us out and get us out of debt.”

Andert’s shop, it appears, is a victim of circumstance.

The shop she owns with her husband is on the corner of West Seventh Street near Kellogg Boulevard, right across the street from the hockey arena. But the problem is that Seventh Street is totally blocked off to traffic heading through the arena.

There is absolutely no vehicle traffic on Seventh Street because there’s nowhere to go. The end of the street is blocked with barriers and is swarming with security.

The only way to get to the Xcel via Seventh Street is by a sidewalk path, which just happens to be on the other side of the street from Blink Bonnie’s.

“This place should be packed out the door and around the corner,” Andert said.

To add insult to injury, CNN’s enormous satellite TV truck is parked right in front of her shop, obscuring the view from any of the walkers on the other side of the street.

Andert has called the city, the mayor, an attorney, the RNC planning committee and CNN, but it appears there’s little that anyone can do to help business.

“For us, this was it,” she said. “We thought it would be worth all the hard work we put in…but in the end you end up getting the shaft, I guess.”