DU-PAR'S CAFE CHAIN SOLD TO NAYLOR FAMILY.Byline: Gregory J. Wilcox Staff Writer Du-par's restaurants, a popular, breakfast-anytime destination for more than six decades, has been sold to a member of the family that founded the former Tiny Naylor chain, the parties said Wednesday. Financial terms of the purchase by W.W. ``Biff'' Naylor were not disclosed. Du-par's has three restaurants: the original at Farmers Market at Third Street and Fairfax Avenue Fairfax Avenue is a street on north central Los Angeles, California. It runs from La Cienega Boulevard (which separates the Westside from the central part of the city) with Culver City at its southern end to Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood on its northern end. in the Fairfax District, Studio City and Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. . The chain was started in 1938, and longtime executive Herb Oberst took an ownership stake in 1976. Eight years later, he became the sole owner. The company's vice president, Shirley Oberst Kauffman, Herb Oberst's daughter, has been running the business for the past 10 years. ``It's time It's Time was a successful political campaign run by the Australian Labor Party (ALP) under Gough Whitlam at the 1972 election in Australia. Campaigning on the perceived need for change after 23 years of conservative (Liberal Party of Australia) government, Labor put forward a for a new era,'' said Oberst Kauffman, an Agoura resident. ``It's just time for my mother and me to do something different as well as time for Du-par's to do something different.'' Du-par's, with 105 employees, is noted for its pancakes, French toast, chicken pot pies and fruit pies. ``They want to carry on the Du-par's tradition, which is great,'' Oberst Kauffman said. ``We're 66 years old, and I'd like to see us make it 100. They are pretty much enamored en·am·or tr.v. en·am·ored, en·am·or·ing, en·am·ors To inspire with love; captivate: was enamored of the beautiful dancer; were enamored with the charming island. with the name and recipes.'' Naylor, one of the five Naylor brothers who worked at the Tiny Naylor chain, said that he would retain the Du-par name but that some cosmetic changes would result from the new ownership. After escrow closes at the end of August, all three restaurants will close. The Studio City and Thousand Oaks locations will reopen within two weeks. The Farmers Market store will shut for at least two months for modifications, including an outdoor patio. Naylor, a West Los Angeles
The bloodlines suggest it will happen: His father started in the restaurant business in the 1920s with some waffle See WAFL. shops in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern . He opened the Beverly Hills Club, a favorite haunt of celebrities like Howard Hughes, after World War II, and started the Tiny Naylor chain, which eventually grew to 39 restaurants, in 1951. The chain was sold in the mid-1970s, and the last Tiny Naylor restaurant closed about four years ago. Naylor and his five brothers continued in the food service business, and he said the timing was right to get back into restaurant ownership. His daughter, Jennifer, the executive chef at Wolfgang Puck's Granita gra·ni·ta n. A granular dessert ice with a sugar-syrup base, usually flavored with fruit purée, coffee, or wine. [Italian, from feminine past participle of granire, to make grainy, granulate in Malibu, will offer some help with the menu, Naylor said. It will probably amount to tweaking tweaking Vox populi Fine-tuning to produce optimal results , though. Naylor admits to a fondness for Du-par's blueberry blueberry, plant of the large genus Vaccinium, widely distributed shrubs (occasionally small trees) of the family Ericaceae (heath family), usually found on acid soil. They are often confused with the related huckleberry. cream cheese pie - and the Du-par's name. He also knows that the workers are important to future success. ``We're an old-time restaurant family, like Shirley's family, and we want to maintain that,'' he said. Oberst Kauffman thinks that's a good idea. ``Leathon Lacy has been a baker at Farmers Market since 1956, John McMillon has cooked since 1963, and Doris Perez has baked pies since 1967.'' Gregory J. Wilcox, (818) 713-3743 greg.wilcox(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: (color) Shirley Oberst Kauffman, center, vice president of Du-par's, sits with some of her longtime employees: Theresa Molina, Aaron Cowart, Louis Palafax and Fred Rad. John McCoy/Staff Photographer |
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