The former L.A. Times restaurant of the year shuttered all its locations in 2018. This year, chefs Keith Corbin and Daniel Patterson plan to reprise the quick-service concept in Watts.
Locol, the groundbreaking, community-focused restaurant that closed five years ago, is set to reopen in its original Watts location — this time as a nonprofit organization. Daniel Patterson, the chef and entrepreneur who founded L.A.
“We’ve had a lot of time to look at what it is that did work, and what was so powerful was vocational training and empowering people,” Patterson said. “So we want that to be the focus.” “Watts is about 2.2 square miles that’s geographically divided up to the gangs and the projects, so wherever you land as a retail or for-profit [operation], you can only service about one fourth of the community,” Corbin said. “If there’s 40,000 people in that community and you only have 10,000, how many of those are children? How many of those are drug addicts? How many of those are on fixed income? It just doesn’t work.
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