My family went to Phillipe's about one Sunday a month. It's a melting pot of cultures where hobos, middle class families and high class lawyers eat together with sawdust on the floor.
I remember a similar story in the Los Angeles Herald Express that rued the passing of Phillipe's 5 cent cup of coffee. It was a curiosity to me but didn't really matter-- our choice was always the killer lemonade and later, of course, the beer. When the LA downtown area was renovated the City Council passed a resolution that kept Phillipe's as it was/is. Gone, however, are the laundry lines that hung on the back porches of the backside of the old Chinatown adjacent to the parking lot. To this day, whenever a sibling stops at Phillipe's he or she texts a ribbing to the rest of us. Oh woe, oh rue, oh woe. Dan Sent from my iPhone On Jan 26, 2012, at 8:12 AM, Jim Devine <[email protected]> wrote: > [the Fed MUST do something! ;-) ] > > L.A. TIMES / January 26, 2012: > > Philippe's 9-cent coffee about to become history > The L.A. restaurant announces it will raise the price of a cup o' joe > to 45 cents on Feb. 2 because of the rising cost of its supply. > Customers of the French dip palace wonder what took so long. > > By Rick Rojas, Los Angeles Times > > January 26, 2012 > Philippe's is best known for its legendary French dip sandwiches. But > for regulars, nothing speaks to the eatery's historic L.A. feel than > the 9-cent coffee on the menu. And the 1 extra cent of tax. > > Since 1977, the legion of longtime customers at the restaurant on > North Alameda Street north of downtown Los Angeles had grown > accustomed to putting a dime on the counter and getting a hot cup of > coffee in return. > > But on Wednesday, management posted a surprising sign on the door: > Starting Feb. 2, the price of an eight-ounce brew is going up 400% — > to 45 cents. Add 5 cent tax and the total price is 50 cents. > > They say the cost of coffee is such that the restaurant can no longer > keep its price so low. > > "It's been a tradition," said Mark Massengill, whose family has run > the restaurant for four generations. "We've always tried to provide a > tremendous value in the food and coffee." And, he said, coffee will be > included in the price of a breakfast and, even after the hike, two > quarters for coffee is still a bargain.... > -- > Jim Devine / It's time to Occupy the New Year! > _______________________________________________ > pen-l mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
