The story of Alta Adams started in Watts, at LocoL.Founded by chefs Roy Choi and Daniel Patterson, LocoL was a new kind of fast food restaurant, built on the idea that everyone deserves good food, a good job, and an opportunity to fulfill their potential.

By hiring from the community and emphasizing training, LocoL was wildly successful in creating new careers for a team that had never held hourly positions. LocoL immediately had an outsized impact on Los Angeles culture, and its influence quickly spread across the country.

We met in 2015, before LocoL opened. LocoL closed in 2018, and a few months later we opened Alta Adams, with the same goal as LocoL, to be a community supportive restaurant. Alta has been successful beyond anything we could have imagined, and we are so grateful for the support of the Los Angeles community. After almost five years, our values are still the same. We want our restaurant to be more than just a place to eat and drink. We hope that we can have an impact on the world around us.