Langer’s Deli will celebrate its 75th anniversary with half-price sandwiches

Langer’s Delicatessen, a Los Angeles mainstay identified for its scorching pastrami on rye bread, will have fun its seventy fifth anniversary Saturday with half-price sandwiches.

The family-owned Jewish deli will supply the 50% low cost to dine-in clients Saturday from 8 a.m. till 8 p.m. at its 135-seat restaurant on South Alvarado Road close to MacArthur Park. The deal will probably be restricted to at least one sandwich per buyer.

“To have any restaurant — or any enterprise for that matter — keep in existence for 75 years is a rarity, it’s a giant deal,” stated proprietor Norm Langer. “… It exhibits I’m doing one thing proper. I’m placing out a correct product, I’m treating my clients with respect.”

Langer stated his father, founder Al Langer, had a mantra that he nonetheless works to make use of at this time: “It issues not what you cost, however give the shopper the identical product at this time because the day you opened.”

Although Langer, who’s in his late 70s, doesn’t anticipate the deli to survive him, he stated he desires to maintain offering high-quality meats, sandwiches and salads so long as is sensible.

“Once I resolve to hold it up, it’s going to be hung up, however I’ve no plans to hold it up,” Langer stated. “So long as I’ve a crew of individuals in there that I belief … why shouldn’t I preserve the doorways open?”

He attributes a lot of the restaurant’s success throughout his tenure as proprietor to his crew of unionized workers, a lot of whom have labored there for many years.

“They’re nice workers, and they’re the explanation that we’re there 75 years,” stated Langer, who has operated the deli since 1963. “It’s not solely the meals itself, however it’s the individuals getting ready it, the individuals presenting it.”