Before she was taken to UCLA Medical Center, Britney Spears made a quick mid-day stop at Jerry’s Deli in Studio City, California, Wednesday.

“Around 3 o’clock, Britney came in and was completely out of it,” an employee says of Spears. “She’s come in before, but we’ve never seen her this bad.”

“She was like a zombie… like she was sleepwalking,” the employee says, adding that she “didn’t stay to eat.”

She picked up Adnan Ghalib, who met up with her there, and “then left,” the employee says. “It was all over in three minutes.”

About 10 hours later, Spears was admitted to the UCLA Medical Center as part of “a carefully orchestrated intervention.”

It was said that Britney hadn’t slept in days, and also there was NO suicide attempt.

WENN