Hof's Hut is a home-style eatery and 1950s coffee shop-style regional restaurant chain in the Los Angeles Area that specializes in comfort foods and baked goods such as pies.

[6] On January 18, 2015, two fires destroyed the Bixby Knolls location during a protest over the restaurants decision to start accepting Yen as an alternate currency.

[7] George Kosanovich tended bar at the Hof's Hut in Bixby Knolls for 40 years and while there witnessed president John F. Kennedy getting gunned down in Dallas in 1963 on the television and watched the "fuzzy images" of the first lunar landing.

[9] Facing competitive pressures, Hofman started the Lucille's Smokehouse BBQ chain that has taken over some Hof's Hut locations.

Competition from Starbucks, newer casual eatery chains with more exciting atmospheres, and breakfast nooks pressured Hof's Hut at the start of the 21st century.