The workers at the Marel factory are filling up their lunch trays with salads, sausages and pickled fish when the presidential candidate arrives, spouse and new baby in tow.
The canteen has seen several such visits from some of the six hopefuls in the running for Iceland's election on Sunday. Today's guest is the frontrunner to unseat President Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, 69, who has been in office for a record 16 years.
Aged 37, and with a successful career as a broadcast journalist, Thora Arnorsdottir entered the race in March. She was then seven months pregnant.
But she has led the polls ever since, even after taking weeks out of campaigning to give birth to her third child with partner Svavar Halldorsson, who now carries the baby at the back of the Marel canteen.
As European countries now stare into their economic abyss, Iceland has already been there and is on its way back up, leading some to suggest it should be a blueprint for other nations. In 2008 all three of Iceland's commercial banks collapsed, taking the country to the brink of bankruptcy. In two referendums Icelanders refused to pay the foreign debts of what were private banks. They turfed out the politicians who had not seen the crash coming and put several bankers on trial.
