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The Big Boy
itself began with Bob Wian in Glendale, California. Bob
sold his car for $350.00 and opened a small restaurant
called Bob’s Pantry. He set into operation a policy that
persists today throughout all Big Boy restaurants ... the
finest quality food and the best service.
Members of an orchestra playing in the vicinity stopped in
the restaurant and asked Bob Wian if he could dream up
something different than just a plain hamburger. “Why
not,” Wian mused.
As if his hands were guided by an unseen force, he cut a
regulation hamburger bun into three slices, and inserted
not one but two hamburger patties into place. It was then
garnished with a special and very delectable relish he had
prepared. Wian handed the innovation to the players and
anxiously awaited the decision.
“Wow,” they chorused. “This is it!” and it was.
Other customers saw him preparing it and asked for one.
They agreed with the musicians. Wian had made a better
hamburger.
One day a chubby youngster walked into Wian’s now
flourishing restaurant. “He was about six,” Bob
recalled, “and rolls of fat protruded where his shirt
and pants were designed to meet. I was so amused by the
youngster -- jolly, healthy looking and obviously a lover
of good things to eat, I called him Big Boy.” So why not
name the new hamburger Big Boy? Wian did. That was the
birth of the first double-decker hamburger.
Big Boy is a registered trademark of Big Boy Restaurants
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