The Apple Pan

File:The Apple Pan, Pico Blvd.JPG

The restaurant, opened in 1947, is one of Los Angeles' oldest continuously operating restaurants. It is located near the Westside Pavilion.{{cite web | url = http://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-applepan16may16-story.html | title = As American as Apple Pan | last = Perry | first = Charles | date = May 16, 2007 | website = Los Angeles Times | access-date = January 18, 2016 | archive-date = September 8, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240908115121/https://www.latimes.com/food/la-fo-applepan16may16-story.html | url-status = live }}

The Apple Pan is also notable as the basis for the popular Johnny Rockets restaurant chain. Johnny Rockets founder Ronn Teitlebaum claimed he used The Apple Pan as a model for his successful 1950s-themed franchise, copying the menu, presentation, counter seating and grilling area for the Johnny Rockets chain based on this original restaurant: a small menu with few items, hamburgers served wrapped in paper and on cardboard plates, hamburgers grilled-to-order in full view of the counter-seated customers. Teitlebaum approached the Baker family about going into business with him to establish a nation-wide franchise based on Apple Pan, but they turned him down, preferring things the way they were: simple.{{cite web | url = http://www.chowhound.com/post/apple-pan-hickory-burger-revisited-clear-eyes-372510 | title = The Apple Pan hickory burger revisited (with clear eyes) | author = Arthur | date = February 18, 2007 | website = Chowhound | publisher = CBS Interactive | access-date = January 3, 2016 | archive-date = September 8, 2024 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20240908114955/https://www.chowhound.com/ | url-status = live }}

The exterior of The Apple Pan was used as an establishing shot in episodes of 1990s teen soap Beverly Hills, 90210.{{Cite web|author=Lindsay|date=2013-03-26|title=The Apple Pan from "Beverly Hills, 90210"|url=https://www.iamnotastalker.com/2013/03/26/the-apple-pan-from-beverly-hills-90210/|access-date=2021-03-09|website=IAmNotAStalker|language=en-US|archive-date=2020-01-12|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200112230912/http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2013/03/26/the-apple-pan-from-beverly-hills-90210/|url-status=live}} The show's executive producer Charles Rosin wanted to use the name of The Apple Pan but instead created the fictional Peach Pit, loosely based on The Apple Pan, after he and the diner's owners could not agree on the use of the name.{{Cite web|title=The Blaze with Lizzie and Kat! The Original Beverly Hills 90210 Podcast - 055 Charles Rosin - Season Two Wrap-Up on Stitcher|url=https://www.stitcher.com/show/the-blaze-with-lizzie-and-kat/episode/055-charles-rosin-season-two-wrap-up-41744818|access-date=2021-03-09|website=Stitcher|archive-date=2024-09-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240908115125/https://www.pandora.com/browse/podcasts?source=stitcher-sunset|url-status=live}}

Apple Pan Burger.jpg|Hickory Burger

Apple pie, The Apple Pan (Sept. 2024).JPG|Apple pie

Pecan pie, The Apple Pan (Sept. 2024).jpg|Pecan pie

{{Portal|Companies|Food}}

• List of hamburger restaurants

{{Reflist}}

{{Restaurants in Los Angeles County}}

• {{Official website|theapplepan.com}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Apple Pan, The}}

Category:1947 establishments in California

Category:Hamburger restaurants in the United States

Category:Restaurants established in 1947

Category:Restaurants in Los Angeles

Category:West Los Angeles

{{California-restaurant-stub}}