Norms restaurants will mark the diner chain\u2019s 77th anniversary next week by offering stacks of two hotcakes for 77 cents at its locations in Southern California, the company announced Friday.<\/p>\n
The one-day offer will be available from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday for dine-in customers and to-go orders placed through the Norms website or rewards app, with a limit of two orders per person.<\/p>\n
Norms was founded in 1949 by Los Angeles native Norm Roybark, who opened the first restaurant near Sunset Boulevard and Vine Street in Hollywood.<\/p>\n
The chain expanded across Southern California during the postwar era, becoming known for its coffee-shop architecture, large roadside signs and round-the-clock dining.<\/p>\n
Its La Cienega location, at 470 N. La Cienega Blvd. in Los Angeles, opened in 1957 and is the chain\u2019s longest-operating restaurant. The building was designed by architects Louis Armet and Eldon Davis, whose work helped define the Googie style associated with Southern California\u2019s mid-20th century automobile culture.<\/p>\n
The La Cienega restaurant features the chain\u2019s distinctive sawtooth pennant sign spelling out NORMS and other elements of the futuristic Googie style.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles City Council designated the La Cienega restaurant a Historic-Cultural Monument in 2015 following an effort by preservationists to protect the building.<\/p>\n
Norms remained under the ownership of the Roybark family for more than six decades and three generations before the restaurant business was sold in late 2014.<\/p>\n
The chain has continued to expand and now operates 24 locations in Riverside, Los Angeles and Orange counties and Las Vegas, according to the company.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Norms restaurants will mark the diner chain\u2019s 77th anniversary next week by offering stacks of two hotcakes for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[184396,184397,9376,184398,48,52,51,47,50,49,39734,80879],"class_list":["post-468271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-77-cent","tag-77th","tag-anniversary","tag-hotcakes","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-mark","tag-norms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468271","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=468271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}