Every price below comes from the restaurant's own website or its own online ordering page — no delivery-app markups, no review-site guesses. Every card was read off an owner menu in July 2026 — see the note above for how Norfolk's 12.5% meals tax lands on the out-the-door total.
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Doumar's Cones & Barbeque
Two Cheeseburgers + Fries + Limeades — $17.00
The best two-person number on the whole site, and it's a Norfolk institution — a James Beard 'America's Classics' winner (1999) at 1919 Monticello Ave in Ghent. Abe Doumar sold his hand-rolled waffle cones at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and the 1907 Jamestown Exposition here; the family still rolls them on the four-iron machine built in 1905 (when the weather's nice, someone rolls cones on it out front). Off the owner menu at doumars.com: Cheeseburger $4.30, Minced Barbecue $4.10, French Fries $2.50, Hot Dog $2.60, Hamburger $3.80, Limeade $1.70. Two cheeseburgers, two fries and two limeades is $17.00 — two full meals with drinks. The BBQ build (two minced barbecue + two fries + two limeades) is cheaper at $16.60, and two people can graze the hot-dog-and-cone end for about ten bucks.
📍 1919 Monticello Ave, Norfolk · ⏳ Mon–Sat (closed Sun)
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Pollard's Chicken (Tidewater Dr)
Two Tender Value Meals — $15.50, Drinks Included
Frying chicken in Hampton Roads since 1967, and the Norfolk value is real. Off the owner menu, the Tender Value Meal — tenders, a vegetable, a puff and a drink — is $7.75, so two is $15.50 with the drinks already in the ticket. The Value Meal (2 pc chicken, veg, puff, drink) is $9.15, two for $18.30 on the menu; two Tender Bite Dinners (6 pc) at $8.75 is $17.50; and the sandwich combos (breast filet, NC minced-pork or pulled-chicken BBQ, with fries and a drink) are $8.99. Plain BBQ and filet sandwiches are $5.49. Card the Tidewater Dr store only — the Ballentine Blvd location closed for good on Dec 31, 2025, even though its ordering page hasn't noticed (see Still True? below).
📍 8370 Tidewater Dr, Norfolk · ⏳ Daily · Tidewater Dr store
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Handsome Biscuit
Two Chicken Biscuits — $15.90
Ghent's sweet-potato-biscuit shop at 2511 Colonial Ave, and the trick is ordering the right thing. Off the owner menu (July 2026): the Chicken Biscuit is $7.95, so two is $15.90; the Shorty (egg + cheddar) is $6.25, two for $12.50; 3 pc Tenders $6.75, snack wraps $4.50. What breaks the budget is the sandwich Norfolk is famous for — the signature sweet-potato-biscuit builds (Stevie, Nashville, Dirty South, Fowl Play, Chicken Bacon Ranch) run $10.45–$11.25 each, so two of any of them is $20.90–$22.50, over before tax. Name the order, not the restaurant.
📍 2511 Colonial Ave, Norfolk · ⏳ Breakfast–early afternoon
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Maymar Poke & Grill
Two Filipino Plates — $13.98
Filipino turo-turo — 'point-point' — where you point at dishes on the steam table and pay by the number of entrées, not by dish, which is exactly the structure built for two-under-$20. Off the owner menu at maymarpoke.com: a 1-entrée plate with rice is $6.99, so two plates is $13.98; two entrées is $10.99 and three is $13.99. Adobo, chicken curry, pancit bihon, pork steak, picadillo, lumpia. This Ocean View counter at 130 Maple Ave is the one Maymar storefront that publishes Norfolk prices you can actually read — the flagship on E Princess Anne Rd only posts its Chesapeake sibling's menu (see What We Couldn't Price).
📍 130 Maple Ave, Norfolk (Ocean View) · ⏳ Mon–Fri 11am–3pm
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Oceanview Diner
Two Two-Egg Platters — $16.00 (Tax Included)
A hole-in-the-wall Navy-town breakfast diner at 9619 Granby St, on the Chesapeake Bay side of Ocean View — Norfolk has no oceanfront, so don't let any listing tell you this one's near the ocean. The owner menu prints 'prices include tax', which almost nothing else in this city does: the Two Eggs platter (eggs + home fries or grits + toast) is $8.00, so two is $16.00 out the door, full stop. Cheaper still: three pancakes $7.00, a Belgian waffle $6.00. Bacon & Eggs $10.00, the Big Combo $15.50, cheese omelette $10.50.
📍 9619 Granby St, Norfolk (Ocean View) · ⏳ Daily 7am–2pm · dinner Wed–Fri 5–8:30pm
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D'Egg Diner
Two Early Risers — $17.00 · or Pancakes + Coffee — $13.00
Downtown Norfolk's breakfast favorite since 2003, at 204 E Main St. Off the owner menu: the Early Riser — two eggs any style with meat, a side and bread — is $8.50 (Mon–Fri before 9am, dine-in), so two is $17.00. Lighter and cheaper: two buttermilk-pancake stacks at $5.00 plus a coffee ($3.00) is $13.00. The all-day D'Local Yocal two-egg plate is $11. There's a juice bar pressing fresh vegetable and fruit juices, too.
📍 204 E Main St, Norfolk · ⏳ Daily 7:30am–2:30pm
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Yorgo's Bageldashery
Two Egg Bagel Sandwiches — $9.40
Ghent's neighborhood bagel shop at 2123 Colonial Ave. Off the owner menu (2026 PDF): a build-your-own egg breakfast sandwich on a bagel is $4.70, so two is $9.40 — one of the cheapest sit-downs for two on the page. A plain cream-cheese bagel is $3.60, PB&J $4.50, and the loaded end (Egg Salad $9, BLT $10, Avocado Toast $8) still lets two eat under $20. Coffee $3.10.
📍 2123 Colonial Ave, Norfolk · ⏳ Mon/Wed–Fri 6am–3pm · Sat–Sun 7am–3pm (closed Tue)
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The Dirty Buffalo
Two Broccoli Mac Bowls — $17.98
Voted best wings in Coastal Virginia, on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives and Food Paradise, with four sauces that have won at the National Buffalo Wing Festival. But the wings aren't the cheap play — off the owner menu, the honest two-person build is the Mac Bowls: Broccoli Mac $8.99, so two is $17.98 (Dirty Mac, Cajun Chicken, Chicken Parm and Porky's run $9.99). The 5 Wings + 1 Side combo is $11.99 but feeds one — pair it with any Mac and you're over. Two Norfolk locations: 4012 Colley Ave (Ghent) and 4213 E Little Creek Rd.
📍 4012 Colley Ave + Little Creek, Norfolk · ⏳ Sun/Mon/Wed–Sat 11am–11pm (closed Tue)
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Famous Uncle Al's Hot Dogs & Grille
Two Hot Dog Combos — $16.00
Granby Street's hot-dog institution for 35-plus years, locally and Black-owned, at 151 Granby St downtown. Off the owner menu: the Original Hot Dog is $4.00 and "Make it a Combo" adds fries and a drink for $4, so two full combos is $16.00. Leaner still — two dogs plus a shared fries ($3) is $11.00. The house dogs are named across the map: the Granby St Dog ($6), the Virginia Beach, the Philly, the Atlanta Slaw, the Boston. Cheeseburger $6, Philly cheeseburger $8, and a breakfast window 7–10:45am (egg sandwich $4, chicken biscuit $6). No card surcharge stated. (The "Norfolk Snap Dog" you'll see quoted is a Famous Uncle Al's Virginia Beach item — it isn't on this Granby menu.)
📍 151 Granby St, Norfolk · ⏳ Mon–Fri 7am–2pm · Sat 8am–2pm (closed Sun)
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Sour Street Pizza
Share a Wood-Fired Pie — $18.00
An Ocean View newcomer whose owner quit corporate IT to open it — wood-fired sourdough pies, 11–12 inches, sold whole (no slices). Off the owner menu, the Marinara and the Great White Buffalo are $18 each, and one pie feeds two, so a shared pie is $18.00. The Three Cheese and White Pie are $20; the topped pies (Margherita, Pepperoni, Meatballer, Veggie) run $21–22. Sides: meatballs $15, salads $14, sourdough toast $4, tiramisu $8. Closed Mondays.
📍 4035 E Ocean View Ave Ste 400, Norfolk · ⏳ Tue–Wed 4–9 · Thu–Sat 11–9 · Sun 11–8 (closed Mon)
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The Lizard Café
Two Sandwiches, Sides Included — $16.00
A genuinely rare card type — a café tucked inside Prince Books, downtown Norfolk's independent bookstore at 109 E Main St. Off the café's own menu, every sandwich comes with a choice of fruit, chips, or the side of the day, and the cheapest is the Main Street at $8.00, so two full lunches with sides is $16.00. The rest of the board is $8.50–$10 (Mediterranean, chicken salad, dill tuna, turkey BLT, Greek, quinoa); soup is $3.50 a cup. Reported to be under new ownership (Brian and Jen); the posted menu is owner-hosted and dated 2024, so confirm the odd price at the counter.
📍 109 E Main St, Norfolk (inside Prince Books) · ⏳ Café hours vary — call ahead
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Del Vecchio's
Two 2-Slice-and-a-Drink Specials — $10.98
A NY-style slice shop with one of the cheapest full meals for two in the city. Off the owner menu, the lunch special 2 Slices & a Drink is $5.49 with the fountain drink included (11–5 daily, carry-out or dine-in), so two people eat for $10.98 — drinks and all. More specials off the same board: 1 slice + side salad + drink $5.75, a cold-cut sub + chips or a half cold-cut sub + fries $6.99, house salad $5.99, Anti/Greek/Chef salad $6.99. Slices add about 50¢ per topping after the third.
📍 1080 W 47th St, Norfolk · ⏳ Daily · lunch specials 11am–5pm
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Redwood Smoke Shack
Two OG Sammiches — $19.00
Texas-inspired craft BBQ in Ghent, smoking low and slow over oak, hickory and pecan — and one of the few Norfolk barbecue orders that actually clears for two. Off the Norfolk store's own Toast menu, the OG Sammich is $9.50 (choice of meat, served disassembled to keep it fresh), so two is $19.00, right under the $20 menu line. Mind the add-ons that push it over: chopped brisket is a $4 upcharge and “make it fancy” with pimiento cheese and pickled red onion is +$1.50, so those builds break the budget for two. Closed Sun/Mon. This is the Manteo St Norfolk store — the Suffolk location prices separately.
📍 2001 Manteo St, Norfolk (Ghent) · ⏳ Tue–Sat 11am–8pm (closed Sun/Mon)
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MP Island Cafe
Two 2-Piece Fried Chicken Plates — $15.98
Hampton Roads' beloved family-run Jamaican kitchen at 923 Glenrock Rd, with an attached Caribbean grocery. Off the owner menu, a 2-Piece Fried Chicken (leg & thigh) with two sides is $7.99, so two plates is $15.98 — a full meal each. À-la-carte pieces are $1.79 (leg or thigh). Jerk chicken, curry, oxtail and rice-and-peas round out the board. We'd cut this in the first pass when the owner site was down — the menu's back and reachable now.
📍 923 Glenrock Rd, Norfolk · ⏳ Lunch & dinner · call to confirm
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Rosita's Tacos Mexicanos
Two Sopes or Gorditas — $16.50
The neighborhood taquería near the Newtown line, and its real owner site is finally sorted — the old card wrongly pointed at a Filipino restaurant's domain. At 1815 E Little Creek Rd, Norfolk, the owner menu prices sopes and gorditas at $8.25, so two is $16.50; an order of tacos is $6.68, a quesadilla $9.30, and a shared Platillo platter is $15.60. Homemade tortillas, asada, suadero and birria. Mind the address — this is the 1815 E Little Creek store, not the 956 storefront that shows up only on delivery apps.
📍 1815 E Little Creek Rd, Norfolk · ⏳ Mon–Thu 11am–7pm · Fri–Sat 11am–9pm
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Chicho's Pizza Backstage
Four Cheese Slices — $12.00 · Whole Pie $8
Late-night Granby Street pizza attached to a live-music venue — a stage, two bars, a pool table — at 320 Granby St, famous for big slices and a hot-n-spicy house sauce. Off the Norfolk store's own site: a cheese slice is $3.00 (pepperoni $3.50) and a whole cheese pizza is $8.00. So two people eat for $12.00 on four cheese slices, or split a whole cheese pie ($8) plus a couple pepperoni slices for about $15 — either way well under $20. Confirmed open (Yelp updated June 2026); there's a separate, long-closed “Chicho’s” listing downtown that isn't this one. Prices are the Norfolk store’s — the Virginia Beach and Chesapeake Chicho’s set their own.
📍 320 Granby St, Norfolk · ⏳ Daily · open late (to 1–2am)
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Fat Philly's
Two Sandwiches $9.98 · or Two Combos $16.48
A hidden cheesesteak-and-deli counter tucked inside a corner gas station at 2700 Azalea Garden Rd — don't let the convenience-store front fool you, locals swear by it. Off the owner ordering page: a Cheeseburger or Chicken Fillet Sandwich is $4.99, a Hot Dog $2.99, the Carolina Minced BBQ Sandwich $5.99, an NY Hot Sausage $4.29. Two sandwiches is $9.98; make them full meals with the sandwich + fries + Coke combo at $8.24 and two combos is $16.48. Lamb-and-beef or chicken gyros run $8.99 if you'd rather split those. Confirmed Norfolk, takes cards, counter/takeout.
📍 2700 Azalea Garden Rd, Norfolk · ⏳ Mon–Fri 7am–9pm · Sat–Sun 9am–9pm
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Pho 79 Bistro (Premium Outlets)
Two Banh Mi — $19.98
Name discipline matters, because Norfolk has two — this is Pho 79 Bistro at 1551 Premium Outlets Blvd Ste 250, a different storefront from the plain Pho 79 in Ghent and the Virginia Beach and Chesapeake restaurants behind pho79-va.com. Pho itself has crossed $15–17 a bowl across Hampton Roads, so two bowls no longer clears — banh mi is the play. Off the Norfolk store's own menu, every banh mi is $9.99 (dac biet, thit nguoi, cha lua, gio thu, grilled lemongrass chicken), so two is $19.98 — just under the $20 menu line, each a full Vietnamese sandwich with pate, pickled carrots, daikon, cucumber and cilantro. It's the honest ceiling case: it passes on the menu by two cents but crosses $20 once tax lands.
📍 1551 Premium Outlets Blvd Ste 250, Norfolk · ⏳ Daily lunch & dinner
Bigger than one storefront, smaller than the home-page national list — regional chains with real Norfolk addresses.
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MOD Pizza
One 11" Pizza Split Two Ways — $14.19, Unlimited Toppings
MOD fast-fires an 11-inch build-your-own pizza in about three minutes, and the model is one price however many of the 40-plus toppings go on it — the chain's own words are "the price always stays the same." The 11-inch MOD-size with unlimited toppings reads $14.19 at the 1541 Premium Outlets Blvd store on MOD's own ordering system, August 2026 — $7.10 a head when two people split it, which is the cheapest honest way through the door. MOD sizes a salad it labels "Mega (Feeds 2)" outright at $15.44, so one order is dinner for both of you without touching the pizza menu. Want your own pie each? Two 6-inch minis with cheese run $14.38. Worth knowing before you go: your first purchase as a MOD Rewards member earns a free MOD-size pizza or salad, which makes round one genuinely two for the price of one. The trap is drinks — two 16 oz fountains add $6.78 and put the loaded 11-inch at $20.97, past the line, so drink water or drop to the $10.99 cheese build. MOD prices by store, so confirm at yours — the spread across the cities we checked runs $11.89 to $16.59 for the same pizza.
📍 Norfolk, VA (2 city stores) · ⏳ Every day · one price, unlimited toppings
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Bojangles
$5 After-5pm 2pc Dinners — Two Eat for $10
The Charlotte-born Cajun-chicken-and-biscuits chain (1977, ~800 stores) serves Norfolk from Tidewater Dr: chain-published app deals with the price in the name: the $5 after-5pm 2-piece dinner (two people eat for $10), the Cajun Filet Biscuit with Bo-Rounds for $5, and a $19.99 8-piece family meal that feeds more than two. Cajun-seasoned chicken, scratch-made buttermilk biscuits and the legendary sweet tea; deals run at participating stores via the app or online ordering — confirm at yours. Verified on the chain's own ordering site, July 2026.
📍 Norfolk, VA (7519 Tidewater Dr) · ⏳ $5 dinners after 5pm · app deals
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Cook Out
Two Cook Out Trays — $15–18 · 40+ Shakes
The Thomasville, NC-born drive-thru cult legend (~380 stores across 11 southern states) serves three Norfolk stores — Monticello Ave, Little Creek Rd and Military Hwy — the famous Cook Out Tray: an entrée (burgers, BBQ, chicken tenders, quesadillas), two sides — a whole corn dog counts as a side — and a big drink, running about $7.50–9 depending on market, so two trays land at $15–18 with room for a couple of the 40-plus milkshake flavors. Cook Out publishes no prices online and takes no online orders — tray figures come from recent store boards, so confirm at the window. Drive-thru, open past 3am most nights.
📍 Norfolk, VA (3 locations) · ⏳ Open to 3–4am · drive-thru
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Fuddruckers
Share a 1 lb Burger — $13.49–$16.49 (Feeds Two)
The Texas-born build-your-own-burger chain — beef ground fresh in-house, cooked to order, then dressed however you like at the produce bar — keeps a Norfolk store at 7750 Tidewater Dr. The play for two is the 1 lb burger — a full pound of beef, easily split — $13.49 for the plain Hamburger up to $16.49 loaded (Bacon Cheese, Bourbon, Works, Hangover, Tex-Mex, Swiss Melt, Inferno), each on a toasted bun with a side. Split one and two eat for well under $20. À la carte, a hot dog is $8.49, a turkey burger $9.49, a chicken sandwich $9.99, and salads $9.49. Closed Mondays.
📍 7750 Tidewater Dr #301, Norfolk · ⏳ Tue–Thu 10:30am–9pm · Fri–Sat to 9:30pm (closed Mon)
We checked dozens of named Norfolk restaurants against owner sources in July 2026. Here's the honest accounting of the ones that didn't make a card — because the reason usually wasn't the price.
When a Norfolk owner menu did publish prices, two people could usually still eat for under $20. The scarcity here isn't in the pricing — it's in the publishing. The soul-food spine along Church Street and in Berkley is the best two-under-$20 territory in the city (Sweet Jam Cafe on Church St, Supreme Soul Food, and Thee Soulfood Kitchen cooking inside E. Palmer Supermarket), but every one of them posts its menu only through a delivery app or a JavaScript page with no readable prices — so we name them here rather than pin a number we can't stand behind.
Two places publish prices and still fail the test. Plaza Azteca's Premium Outlets store (1600 Premium Outlet Blvd — genuinely Norfolk, not Virginia Beach) prices its cheapest lunch specials at $12.50, so two is $25 on the menu before tax. No Frill Bar and Grill's own Ghent menu runs $14–$17 an entrée, so two cheapest items is $28 — the same wall the Virginia Beach sibling hit. Both are good restaurants; neither is a two-under-$20.
The turo-turo honest math. The flagship Maymar at 5030 E Princess Anne Rd is a real value, but the only owner-published prices we could reach are its Chesapeake sibling's undated PDF — the Norfolk store posts none we can read. On those tiers, two Richboys (rice + one entrée, $7) is $14 and clears; two Tangos (rice + two entrées, $9) is $18, which passes on the menu but tips over $20 after tax. We carded Maymar Poke & Grill in Ocean View instead, because it actually publishes Norfolk prices.
And two dead ends worth naming: Cogans is alive and well — the pizza spot's real owner site is coganspizza.com (Ghent at 1901 Colonial Ave and North at 4311 Colley Ave); it's the old cogans.com everyone links to that's dead, now a parked "for sale" page. But neither the live site nor the Waterside food-hall stall people mention publishes a slice price we can read, so we can't card it yet. Souper Pho makes a genuine $8 banh mi, but it's in Suffolk, not Norfolk — wrong page.
Every item below was checked against an owner source or the operator's own announcement in July 2026 — including the one that turned out to be about our own page.
There is a live Toast ordering page for a boarded-up Pollard's. The Pollard's Chicken at 3033 Ballentine Blvd closed for good on December 31, 2025, after serving that block since 1969; WTKR photographed the building boarded up in January 2026. Seven months later its Toast ordering page still reads "Open now 11AM–7:30PM," publishes a complete priced menu and its own seven-day hours table, and sells gift cards — and the surviving Tidewater Dr store even links to it in a "similar restaurants" carousel. Toast verifies the price; it does not verify that the door opens. That's why our Pollard's card is the Tidewater Dr store only.
Pollard's own website can't count its own restaurants. The homepage says "five convenient locations," the About page says "six award-winning restaurants" and "overseeing nine locations" in the same page, and a second domain talks about "rounding out our 50th year" under a 2026 copyright — a 50th year lands in 2017 for a company founded in 1967. Any listing that trusts the site's own count is already wrong.
Feather 'n' Fin is a second Norfolk chicken chain with a stale owner site. In January 2026 WAVY confirmed the Tidewater Dr store permanently closed and found the Princess Anne Rd store dark with a food truck sitting in the lot — while the owner website still advertised four locations and a co-owner called it a "temporary shutdown to a fresh start." Don't count on a location until you've seen the lights on.
Handsome Biscuit quietly dropped its ODU store. The owner site's location picker now offers only 2511 Colonial Ave and a Virginia Beach Blvd address, while Yelp still runs a full listing for the 4200 Monarch Way (ODU) store, including a review swearing it has "identical prices as Colonial Ave." Our card is the Colonial Ave store, the one the owner still lists.
Lumpia House can't decide whether it's open. Yelp's page header reads CLOSED while the same page prints full Mon–Sat hours, and the restaurant's Facebook advertises a $5.99 daily lunch special (three pork lumpia and rice). We couldn't reach an owner source to break the tie — the only channel is a login-walled Facebook page — so we're not carding it. If it's open, that $5.99 special would be the best Filipino number in Hampton Roads.
456 Fish served its last plate in July 2025 — and the listings haven't all caught up. The Granby Street seafood room ran more than 20 years before closing on July 12, 2025; the owners now point diners to their sister restaurants (219 Bistro, Byrd & Baldwin, Norfolk Seafood Co.). Yelp marks it closed, but full menu-and-photo profiles still sit live on the directories — which is how a shuttered restaurant keeps getting recommended.
And a correction to our own card. Our old Doumar's entry said the waffle cone was "invented here in 1907 at the Jamestown Exhibition" and priced the BBQ sandwich at $5–6 and the cheeseburger at $5. Doumar's own site prices them at $4.10 and $4.30 — we were wrong high, a first for us; every prior audit found cards wrong low. And the history is muddled: Abe Doumar sold his rolled cones at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair and later at the 1907 Jamestown Exposition, but the cone wasn't invented in Norfolk, and the diner is in Ghent, not at the long-gone Ocean View amusement park. Fixed above.
These chain deals work anywhere in the country, including Norfolk.