{"id":10393,"date":"2018-04-16T10:25:48","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/?p=10393"},"modified":"2025-11-09T10:27:51","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:27:51","slug":"los-angeles-times-norm-langer-guides-langers-deli-through-changing-tastes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/2018\/04\/16\/los-angeles-times-norm-langer-guides-langers-deli-through-changing-tastes\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times: Norm Langer guides Langer\u2019s Deli through changing tastes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times via writer Samantha Masunaga\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-himi-langer-20180414-htmlstory.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>recently profiled owner Norm Langer<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0as part of their \u201cHow I Made It\u201d series of business owners.<\/p>\n<p><em>Over its more than 70 years in existence, Langer\u2019s has made a name for itself as a foodie destination. Since the restaurant has been in business, Langer said, he has sold \u201cover 10 million pounds of pastrami.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Although Langer has embarked on several advertising campaigns, he said his \u201cclaim to fame is word of mouth.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cYou can do all the advertising in the world and sometimes it brings people in,\u201d Langer said. \u201cBut when your friend \u2026 says to you, \u2018I went to Langer\u2019s and I had a corned beef sandwich\u2019\u2026 that\u2019s the credential you want. It\u2019s personal.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The article also includes this great photo of Norm and Al in 1997, which was our 50th anniversary year:<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-10395\" src=\"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lat-norm-al-1997-1500x843-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1500\" height=\"843\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lat-norm-al-1997-1500x843-1.jpg 1500w, https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lat-norm-al-1997-1500x843-1-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lat-norm-al-1997-1500x843-1-1024x575.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/lat-norm-al-1997-1500x843-1-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1500px) 100vw, 1500px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles Times via writer Samantha Masunaga\u00a0recently profiled owner Norm Langer\u00a0as part of their \u201cHow I Made It\u201d series of business owners. Over its more than 70 years in existence, Langer\u2019s has made a name for itself as a foodie destination. Since the restaurant has been in business, Langer said, he has sold \u201cover [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10394,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10396,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10393\/revisions\/10396"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blackplates.com\/langersdeli\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}