
Business in Focus: Clifton’s Cafeteria
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Walk into Clifton’s Cafeteria in downtown Los Angeles, and you’ll feel like you’ve stepped into Throwback Thursday and ordered a side of nostalgia. Clifton’s is nothing short of an institution. It opened in 1935, and was billed as the world’s largest cafeteria. At the height of the Depression it became famous as “The Cafeteria of the Golden Rule.”