Alejandro Ortiz drizzled powdered sugar on the sourdough French toast, a staple at the Original Pantry Cafe, when he greeted and joked with a longtime customer sitting across the counter.
“A majority of people who are coming here, I already know,” said Ortiz.
Except this wasn’t the Original Pantry in downtown L.A., which shut its doors this year after 101 years of service…