Norms slimming.The low-carb craze has hit what may be the last bastion of guilt-free gluttony--the greasy spoon greasy spoon n. Slang A small, inexpensive, often unsanitary restaurant. Noun 1. greasy spoon - a small restaurant specializing in short-order fried foods . After 55 years of serving "home style food," Norms Restaurants Norms Restaurants is a chain of diner-style restaurants in Southern California. The chain was founded in 1949 and its restaurants are open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. They advertise their hours with the line "We never close. recently introduced an eight-item low-carb menu with options that include a veggie omelet, bunless double cheeseburger, blackened black·en v. black·ened, black·en·ing, black·ens v.tr. 1. To make black. 2. To sully or defame: a scandal that blackened the mayor's name. 3. chicken breast Caesar salad and lemon pepper New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of steak. "If I'd been 120 pounds and 6 feet tall, I never would have thought about it," said Phil Singerman, president of the L.A.-based, 17-unit chain. "I've been on a continuous diet--actually, on-and-off diets--for the last 30 years," he said. But for those not interested in counting carbs, Norms still has the old menu. "We don't think it's going to replace hotcakes," Singerman said of the low-carb offerings, "or any of the stuff we all crave, like hamburgers and fries." |
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