Bob's Big Boy mascot sign.

Big Boy is a restaurant chain. The chain started in 1936 by Bob Wian in Glendale, California as Bob's Big Boy. Marriott bought the chain in 1967. One of the larger franchise operators, Elias Brothers, purchased the chain from Marriott in 1987, moving the headquarters of the company to Livonia, Michigan, and operating it until declaring bankruptcy in 2000. Following the bankruptcy, the chain was sold to investor Robert Liggett Jr., the current company CEO, who renamed the company to Big Boy Restaurants International, now headquartered in Warren, Michigan. The company is the franchiser for more than 455 Big Boy Restaurants in the United States and Japan. Download high resolution version (1044x1566, 183 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Big Boy (Restaurant) ... Download high resolution version (1044x1566, 183 KB) File links The following pages link to this file: Big Boy (Restaurant) ... A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants, typically with the same name in many different locations either under shared corporate ownership (e. ... 1936 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... County Los Angeles County, California Area  - Total  - Water 79. ... Marriott International, Inc. ... 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1987 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Livonia is a city located in the northwest part of Wayne County in the U.S. state of Michigan. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... Warren is a city located in Macomb County, Michigan. ...

The chain is best known for its trademark boy in red and white with suspenders holding a double decker hamburger. The inspiration for Big Boy's name, as well as the model for its mascot was Richard Woodruff. When he was 6 years old, he walked into the diner as Bob Wian was attempting to name his new hamburger. Wian said "Hello Big Boy" to Woodruff, and the name stuck.

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Big Boy Hamburger

Big Boy's signature meal is the double-decker Big Boy hamburger (a predecessor of the Big Mac). It is constructed as follows, from top to bottom: McDonalds Big Mac The Big Mac is a type of hamburger sold since 1968 by the McDonalds chain of fast food restaurants. ...

• Toasted sesame seed top bun
• Red relish (green relish combined with ketchup)
• Sprinkle of sea salt
• 1/8 lb beef patty
• Toasted sesame seed center bun
• 1/8 lb beef patty
• Slice of American cheese
• Shredded lettuce
• Mayonnaise
• Toasted sesame seed bottom bun

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Other Regional Franchises

In addition to the Bob's Big Boy name, the "Big Boy" concept, menu, and mascot were originally franchised to a wide number of regional franchise holders, listed below (with approximate original territory in parentheses). Of these, only Frisch's still maintains franchise rights to the "Big Boy" name, and many of the other former franchise owners (Shoney's, for example) have now moved into areas that used to be regional territory for another franchise holder, and the current Big Boy Restaurants International has been expanding it's Bob's Big Boy name into territories formally held by franchisees.

Unlike most modern franchises, the various restaurants differed greatly from one another in terms of price level and menu offerings.

• Abdow's (Massachuetts, Connecticut)
• Azar's (Colorado, N. Indiana)
• Bob's (California, Arizona)
• Elias Brothers (Michigan, Ontario)
• Franklin's (?)
• Frisch's (S. Ohio, Kentucky; N. Tennessee, S. Indiana), a Cincinnati restaurant chain, began serving Big Boy hamburgers in 1946, and now franchises a further 88 Big Boys.
• Elby's (West Virginia, E. Ohio, Pennsylvania, Elby's owned the Big Boy rights to Pennsylvania, and expanded to West Virginia after Shoney's gave up the trademark, later it sub-let the trademark from Frisch's in a few Ohio counties along the West Virginia border)
• Golden Corral (?) Dine-In Buffet Style- another Sister Company to Big Boy
• JB's (Idaho, Montana, North Dakota, Utah, Wyoming, Rhode Island, Arizona, New Mexico)
• Kip's (Texas, Oklahoma)
• Lendy's ( eastern Virginia)
• McDowell's (South Dakota)
• Manner's (N. Ohio)
• Marc's (Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota)
• Shoney's (Southeast: S. Tennessee, southwestern Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, West Virginia), founded by and named after Alex Schoenbaum, no longer displays the Big Boy Statue, because it dropped its relationship with Big Boy in order to expand to other states where other's owned the trademark, in 1984 ).
• TJ's (New York)
• Top's Drive (Illinois --used Big Boy food but not Big Boy name)
• VIP's (New Mexico)

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Trivia

• Filmmaker David Lynch ate lunch at Bob's every day for 7 years. He has personally said the combination of caffeine and sugar from the chocolate shakes and coffee he ordered gave him many ideas for his films.
• In the movie Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery , Dr. Evil and his cat Mr. Bigglesworth make their escape in cryogenic rocket that is the shape of a statue of Big Boy.

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External links

• Big Boy Restaurants, official site
• Bob's Big Boy restaurant, Burbank, California, site of oldest remaining Big Boy restaurant. Includes historical information.

References

• Hansen, Christian (2002). The Big Boy Story: "King of Them All". Haagen Printing. ISBN 0-9671943-6-9.