Charlie's Fixtures is one of the largest restaurant fixtures and equipment supply stores in Southern California, dedicating to provide the best service, the most competitive pricing, advanced and innovative products, broad and diverse merchandises, for its customers in more than 20 years. Charlie’s Fixtures also specializes in complete food service design & layout and custom made hoods & sheet metal works, backed by its experienced and knowledgeable team. The History
Charlie’s Fixtures started its operation in November of 1989 at a modest storefront on Washington Blvd, Los Angeles with only 10 employees. The owner, Charles Lao is son of a Chinese department store owner and was raised in the Philippines has proven experience in the industry. He graduated his degree in Mechanical Engineer from an accredited University in Philippines. He had diverse experience in merchandising in diverse industries. He started his career in food service industry by working for one of the largest dealers of used restaurant equipments in California. He conducted a ten-month study of that company’s business model before signing on with Avery Restaurant Equipment in 1988. In 1994, Charles acquired a second warehouse on Venice Blvd and moved the entire inventory from Washington to Venice warehouse since 2004. Currently, he has another warehouse at Toberman St., Los Angeles, where large equipments are stored. Charlie’s Fixtures has been featured at realtalkla.com (Charles Lao’s business story) and selected as one of the Top Los Angeles area’s cooking supply store at LAWeekly.com site. The Plan
Charlie’s Fixtures on Venice Blvd houses a massive showroom with everything you will need in a restaurant. Currently, Charlie’s Fixtures has more than 40 employees and is in hiring mode. There are plans of re-opening the Washington warehouse to better serve the increasing number of “loyal” customers and enabling online orders through charliesfixtures.com website. Why Charlie’s Fixtures
Charlie’s Fixtures is committed to continue providing the best customer service in its league, broadest and huge selection of equipments and cooking supplies. We have established long-term relationship with manufacturers/vendors/suppliers in the industry and continue looking for greatest value on quality products to achieve lower price for our customers. We keep adding more selection to our inventory. We have a long list of satisfied customers (and preferred vendors), and good words from them. Here are a few: Can we ask customers’ (as well as vendors’) testimonials (in written, e.g. thru email)? We need some of them here… Barney’s Beanery - www.barneysbeanery.com - Jackie
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