Los Angeles Times: Double-dipping waiters sandwiched between two delis

12 January 2010

The Los Angeles Times has published an interesting story about Langer's servers who also work at Canter's on Fairfax. The story features two of our servers, Sal and Eva, and includes a mini-photo essay on Sal at work:

Salvador Lopez, a waiter at Langer's, has the routine down pat. After a hectic lunch shift serving sandwiches on rye at the pastrami mecca next to MacArthur Park, he negotiates a series of surface streets -- up Normandie, across Beverly -- to make his way into the Fairfax district.

He beelines into the locker room of another renowned Jewish deli, shedding the signature Langer's bow tie for a tight-fitting black T-shirt that reads: I ♥ Canter's.

Lopez is not a delicatessen double agent, funneling trade secrets on Russian dressing and blintzes. The 29-year-old is one of several waiters who openly works at two of the delis that compete for the title of Los Angeles' best.

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Photo credit: Salvador Lopez, photographed during his lunchtime shift at Langer's. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times / January 7, 2010)