bob's big boy restaurants in southern california
Bob's Big Boy Bob's Big Boy is a restaurant chain founded by Bob Wian in Southern California in 1936, originally named Bob's Pantry.[1][2] It is now part of Big Boy Restaurants International, the current primary trademark owner and franchisor of the Big Boy system. As of September 2017, only five Bob's Big Boy Restaurants remain in operation, all in Southern California.[3][4][note 1] Those five locations are in Burbank (Toluca Lake), Calimesa, Downey, Norco, and Northridge.
Bobby Flay Flay dropped out of high school at age 17.[11] He has said his first jobs in the restaurant industry were at a pizza parlor and Baskin-Robbins.[12] He then took a position making salads at Joe Allen Restaurant in Manhattan's Theater District, where his father was a partner.[3][13] The proprietor, Joe Allen, was impressed by Flay's natural ability and agreed to pay his partner's son's tuition at the French Culinary Institute.[14]