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| ⚫ | '''W.W. "Biff" Naylor''' is a retired restaurant owner in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Oakland, California<ref name=condo>{{cite news |title=Oakland: Biff's to be torn down, replaced by 'hipster hive' of 255 condo units |url=https://www.mercurynews.com/2016/04/14/oakland-biffs-to-be-torn-down-replaced-by-hipster-hive-of-255-condo-units/#:~:text=The%20Houston%20developer%20Hanover%20Co,%2C%20respectively%2C%20of%20retail%20space. |access-date=29 October 2020 |newspaper=[[San Jose Mercury News]] |date=14 April 2016}}</ref> in 1939<ref name="A Love Letter to L.A.’s Eternally Charming Diners and Coffee Shops">{{cite news |url=https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/vintage-diners/ |title=A Love Letter to L.A.'s Eternally Charming Diners and Coffee Shops |magazine=[[Los Angeles magazine]] |date=November 21, 2017 |first=Patric |last=Kuh}}</ref> and graduated from [[Pennsylvania State University]].<ref name=nra>{{cite news |title=NRA's Naylor speaks out on food industry issues |newspaper=Nation's Restaurant News |date=16 September 1996}}{{page needed|date=November 2020}}</ref> His father W.W. “Tiny” Naylor started Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California in the 1920s, and operated a chain of more than 40 [[Tiny Naylor's]] and Biff's restaurants in Southern California.<ref name="Du-par's Bringing Famous West Coast Brand East">{{cite news |url=https://bethesdamagazine.com/bethesda-beat/du-pars-bringing-famous-west-coast-brand-east/ |title=Du-par's Bringing Famous West Coast Brand East |magazine=[[Bethesda Magazine]] |date=November 30, 2012 }}</ref> Biff Naylor took over operations of Tiny Naylor's after his father's death in 1959<ref>{{cite news |title=Tiny Naylor, Restaurant and Racing Figure Dies |newspaper=Los Angeles Times |date=19 August 1959}}{{page needed|date=November 2020}}</ref> and was still operating at least one location in 1999.<ref>{{cite web |title='I'll Have the Blue-Plate Special' |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-oct-14-ca-22021-story.html/ |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=14 October 1999}}</ref> The Biff's restaurant chain of the 1940s was a "forerunner to all the modern coffee shops," Naylor told the [[San Jose Mercury News]] in 2016. Those restaurants employed modern architecture in the [[googie]] style, and innovations that would be adopted widely through the restaurant industry including open exhibition cooking kitchen, stainless steel counters, refrigerated pie cases, and plate "lowerators" that warmed or cooled plates as needed.<ref name=condo /> In 2017 [[Los Angeles magazine]] food critic Patric Kuh called the longtime restaurant operator "Diner royalty".<ref name="A Love Letter to L.A.’s Eternally Charming Diners and Coffee Shops"/> [[Saveur]] magazine wrote that Biff Naylor created "The best damn coffee shops ever" in their "Saveur 100" list<ref name="Above Par">{{cite news |url=https://archive.org/details/Saveur_2006-02/page/n101/mode/2up?q=%22Biff+Naylor%22 |title=Above Par Coffee Shop |magazine=[[Saveur Magazine]] |date=February 2006 |via=[[archive.org]] |page=101}}</ref> |
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Naylor is the oldest of five brothers <ref name=nra /> who ran American Restaurant Services, Inc. which operated Café River City in Sacramento, California, Tiny's family restaurant in Capitola, California, and seven Cindy's coffee shops in Northern California.<ref>{{cite web |work=[[United States Congress]] |title=Basic Health Benefits for All Americans Act: Hearings Before the Committee |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=n3r0SK-yFRAC&q=%22Biff+naylor%22+california+restaurant+association&pg=PA301 |via=Google Books |location=Washington, D.C. |date=1 May 1989}}</ref> He became chief executive of the Hershel's Delicatessen chain, created by [[Denny's]] founder Harold Butler, in 1987.<ref>{{cite news |title=Collins to buy Hershel's under Chapter 11 plan |newspaper=[[Nation's Restaurant News]] |date=20 July 1987}}{{page needed|date=November 2020}}</ref> |
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| ⚫ | Naylor joined the board of the California Restaurant Association in 1983<ref name=nra /> and is former chairman of the [[National Restaurant Association]].<ref>{{cite news |title=Cain's experience as restaurant group chief mirrors some of his campaign's problems |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/cains-experience-as-restaurant-group-chief-mirrors-some-of-his-campaigns-problems/2011/11/03/gIQAxsQvjM_story.html |access-date=28 October 2020 |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |date=3 November 2011}}</ref> Naylor hired Godfather's Pizza president [[Herman Cain]] as president of the National Restaurant Association in 1996<ref>{{cite web |title=Cain: I Was 'Falsely Accused' |url=https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052970204394804577010290848096330/ |newspaper=[[Wall Street Journal]] |date=1 November 2011 |url-access=subscription}}</ref> |
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In 2004 Naylor came out of retirement to purchase the [[Du-par's]] restaurant chain. He brought in his chef daughter Jennifer Naylor, who had formerly worked with chef [[Wolfgang Puck]], to revamp the menu.<ref name=nra /> He sold the company in 2018.<ref name="Some of L.A.’s Most Beloved Institutions Are Threatened with Extinction">{{cite news |url=https://www.lamag.com/mag-features/small-business-vanishing/ |title=Some of L.A.'s Most Beloved Institutions Are Threatened with Extinction |magazine=[[Los Angeles magazine]] |date=July 27, 2020 |first=Chris |last=Nichols}}</ref> |
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==Bibliography== |
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* {{cite book |title=The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History |last=Williams |first=Gregory |year=2005 |publisher=BL Press LLC |isbn= 9780977629909 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9W4R_CZtFe8C |page=166 }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Hollywood 1940-2008|last=Wanamaker |first=Marc |year=2009 |publisher=Arcadia Press |isbn= 9780738559230 |url= https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9780738559230 }} |
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* {{cite book |title=L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants |last=Geary |first=George |year=2016 |publisher=Santa Monica Press |isbn=9781595800893 |url= http://santamonicapress.com/celebrating-the-famous-places-where-hollywood-ate-drank-and-playedl-a-s-legendary-restaurants/ }} |
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* {{cite book |title=Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture |last=Hess |first=Alan |year=2004 |publisher=Chronicle Books |isbn=978-0811842723 |oclc=249477365 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=uYiGA6QNE8sC |page=222 }} (previously published in 1986 as ''Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture'' {{ISBN|978-0877013341}}) |
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* {{cite book |title=Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants |last=Langdon |first=Philip |year=1986 |publisher=Knopf |isbn=0-394-54401-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oDVUAAAAMAAJ }} |
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Latest revision as of 06:55, 16 April 2021
W.W. "Biff" Naylor is a retired restaurant owner in Los Angeles, California. He was born in Oakland, California[1] in 1939[2] and graduated from Pennsylvania State University.[3] His father W.W. “Tiny” Naylor started Tiny's Waffle Shops in Central California in the 1920s, and operated a chain of more than 40 Tiny Naylor's and Biff's restaurants in Southern California.[4] Biff Naylor took over operations of Tiny Naylor's after his father's death in 1959[5] and was still operating at least one location in 1999.[6] The Biff's restaurant chain of the 1940s was a "forerunner to all the modern coffee shops," Naylor told the San Jose Mercury News in 2016. Those restaurants employed modern architecture in the googie style, and innovations that would be adopted widely through the restaurant industry including open exhibition cooking kitchen, stainless steel counters, refrigerated pie cases, and plate "lowerators" that warmed or cooled plates as needed.[1] In 2017 Los Angeles magazine food critic Patric Kuh called the longtime restaurant operator "Diner royalty".[2] Saveur magazine wrote that Biff Naylor created "The best damn coffee shops ever" in their "Saveur 100" list[7]
Naylor is the oldest of five brothers [3] who ran American Restaurant Services, Inc. which operated Café River City in Sacramento, California, Tiny's family restaurant in Capitola, California, and seven Cindy's coffee shops in Northern California.[8] He became chief executive of the Hershel's Delicatessen chain, created by Denny's founder Harold Butler, in 1987.[9]
Naylor joined the board of the California Restaurant Association in 1983[3] and is former chairman of the National Restaurant Association.[10] Naylor hired Godfather's Pizza president Herman Cain as president of the National Restaurant Association in 1996[11]
In 2004 Naylor came out of retirement to purchase the Du-par's restaurant chain. He brought in his chef daughter Jennifer Naylor, who had formerly worked with chef Wolfgang Puck, to revamp the menu.[3] He sold the company in 2018.[12]
Bibliography
[edit]- Williams, Gregory (2005). The Story of Hollywood: An Illustrated History. BL Press LLC. p. 166. ISBN 9780977629909.
- Wanamaker, Marc (2009). Hollywood 1940-2008. Arcadia Press. ISBN 9780738559230.
- Geary, George (2016). L.A.'s Legendary Restaurants. Santa Monica Press. ISBN 9781595800893.
- Hess, Alan (2004). Googie Redux: Ultramodern Roadside Architecture. Chronicle Books. p. 222. ISBN 978-0811842723. OCLC 249477365. (previously published in 1986 as Googie: Fifties Coffee Shop Architecture ISBN 978-0877013341)
- Langdon, Philip (1986). Orange Roofs, Golden Arches: The Architecture of American Chain Restaurants. Knopf. ISBN 0-394-54401-3.
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Oakland: Biff's to be torn down, replaced by 'hipster hive' of 255 condo units". San Jose Mercury News. April 14, 2016. Retrieved October 29, 2020.
- ^ a b Kuh, Patric (November 21, 2017). "A Love Letter to L.A.'s Eternally Charming Diners and Coffee Shops". Los Angeles magazine.
- ^ a b c d "NRA's Naylor speaks out on food industry issues". Nation's Restaurant News. September 16, 1996.[page needed]
- ^ "Du-par's Bringing Famous West Coast Brand East". Bethesda Magazine. November 30, 2012.
- ^ "Tiny Naylor, Restaurant and Racing Figure Dies". Los Angeles Times. August 19, 1959.[page needed]
- ^ "'I'll Have the Blue-Plate Special'". Los Angeles Times. October 14, 1999.
- ^ "Above Par Coffee Shop". Saveur Magazine. February 2006. p. 101 – via archive.org.
- ^ "Basic Health Benefits for All Americans Act: Hearings Before the Committee". United States Congress. Washington, D.C. May 1, 1989 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Collins to buy Hershel's under Chapter 11 plan". Nation's Restaurant News. July 20, 1987.[page needed]
- ^ "Cain's experience as restaurant group chief mirrors some of his campaign's problems". The Washington Post. November 3, 2011. Retrieved October 28, 2020.
- ^ "Cain: I Was 'Falsely Accused'". Wall Street Journal. November 1, 2011.
- ^ Nichols, Chris (July 27, 2020). "Some of L.A.'s Most Beloved Institutions Are Threatened with Extinction". Los Angeles magazine.