Take Pho 75, for instance, whose number commemorates 1975–the year of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. On the West Coast, the popular Pho 54 restaurant chain pays honor to 1954–the year the country was split into north and south, according to the terms of the Geneva Convention.

The restaurant was named for the year many of the family arrived in the United States, 1979. The restaurant was one of the first in the area to serve pho and according to the Beard announcement, "helped pave the way for Southern California's Little Saigon to become the dynamic hub of Vietnamese cuisine" in the area.

More specifically it is the year that our family first immigrated to the United States. This number means a lot to our family and is something that has been around since the beginning of our business. With that, we'd like to invite you to come share some of our strong family ties and enjoy a nice hot bowl of Pho 95!

Named in reference to the year Saigon fell to communism, 1975, Pho 75 was one of the first pho shops in the region. The partners who founded it were an unlikely pair: an established journalist (Thiep) and a university student (Ngo) who met as refugees in California, where there was a large Vietnamese diaspora.