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The Bob's Big Boy Restaurant located at 4211 Riverside Drive [71] in Burbank, California, is the oldest remaining Bob's Big Boy in the United States. [72] Built in 1949 by local residents Scott MacDonald and Ward Albert, it was designed by Los Angeles architect Wayne McAllister , "incorporating the 1940s transitional design of Streamline ...
When Marriott purchased Big Boy (Wian Enterprises) in 1967, this included Bob's Big Boy. The name "Bob's" would be used by all Marriott owned Big Boys and became common in parts of the eastern U.S. and elsewhere, far away from Bob's historic territory. Frisch's now owns the "Big Boy" name in a defined four-state region and its franchisee Azar's ...
FBB IP LLC, [4] formerly Frisch’s Restaurants Inc., doing business as Frisch's Big Boy, is a regional Big Boy restaurant chain with headquarters in Cincinnati, Ohio. For many years a Big Boy franchisee, in 2001, Frisch's became the exclusive owner of the Big Boy trademark in Indiana, Kentucky, and most of Ohio and Tennessee, and is no longer affiliated with Big Boy Restaurant Group.
Bob Wian opened his first hamburger stand in California in 1936. When he named his unique and popular cheeseburger the Big Boy, the name of the restaurant became Bob’s Big Boy. In the 1940s, he ...
JB's Family Restaurants was founded in 1961 by Jack M. Broberg as JB's Big Boy, a Big Boy restaurants affiliate, in Provo, Utah. The first JB's Big Boy opened there on November 21, 1961. [ 1 ] Broberg chose the location because many students at Brigham Young University in Provo came from Southern California where Big Boy was popular, as well as ...
Frisch's Big Boy got its start in Cincinnati in 1946 after founder Dave Frisch tried a double-decker Big Boy burger at an industry convention in California. The chain grew to 200 restaurants by 1970.
The growing popularity of the burger prompted Wian to change the name of his restaurant to Bob’s Big Boy. He eventually opened 22 restaurants, but at the height of the brand’s popularity there ...
The restaurant started as a 10-stool hamburger stand in Glendale, California, opening in 1936 with an investment of $300 raised from the sale of his car. Wian sold Bob's Big Boy and rights to the Big Boy chain to the Marriott Corp. in 1967 for $7 million [ 4 ] ($64 million in 2023).