Professional competitive eaters will be scarfing down Norms hotcakes for a $10,000 purse this weekend in Ontario

Norms second annual Hotcake Eating Competition will take place at its restaurant outside of Ontario Mills at 11 a.m. Saturday, Sept. 20.

The contest is being put on with Major League Eating, which did the highly publicized Nathan’s Famous hot dog-eating contest at Coney Island on Fourth of July, won by champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut.

Major League Eating holds about 70 events a year. This event is the only one in Southern Callifornia on its calendar.

“I’ll be cooking hotcakes for three hours straight to get ready for that,” said David Cox, the Bellflower-based chain’s corporate executive chef and vice president of food & beverage.

He expects about a dozen pros to c

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