{"id":154236,"date":"2026-01-29T02:01:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154236\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T02:01:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T02:01:16","slug":"woolworths-luncheonette-crown-jewel-of-downtown-building","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/154236\/","title":{"rendered":"Woolworth&#8217;s Luncheonette &#8216;crown jewel&#8217; of downtown building"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are four tenants at the Woolworth&#8217;s building in downtown Bakersfield and owner Sherod Waite considers the luncheonette diner as the crown jewel of the location.<\/p>\n<p>Woolworth&#8217;s Luncheonette, which serves classic American diner food, is the last Woolworth&#8217;s lunch counter in the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The diner opened in October.<\/p>\n<p>Comment with Bubbles<\/p>\n<p>BE THE FIRST TO COMMENT<\/p>\n<p>Chef Richard Yoshimura spoke with Eyewitness News as he prepares to provide food for The Basement&#8217;s grand opening that takes place on Saturday. The Woolworth&#8217;s burgers feature Woolies sauce, which has a secret recipe, Yoshimura said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are four tenants at the Woolworth&#8217;s building in downtown Bakersfield and owner Sherod Waite considers the luncheonette&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":154237,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[151,153,152],"class_list":{"0":"post-154236","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bakersfield","8":"tag-bakersfield","9":"tag-bakersfield-headlines","10":"tag-bakersfield-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154236","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154236"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154236\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/154237"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154236"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154236"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154236"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}