How come they never became as successful as ihop or Dennys etc?? Decent menu absolute kino mascot.
>>21877863Have you ever actually eaten there? The food is dogshit and extremely overpriced for what it is.
>>21877870I remember having a really good burger
Franchising means less direct control. For a not publicly traded mom & pop's, the paperwork and accounting bullshit ain't worth scaling up + the risk.
>>21877879Is that the Andrew dice clay edition of Bobs Big Boy?
>>21877863>How come they never became as successful as ihop or Dennys etc??They were insanely popular in the 70's. my favorite place to eat as a kid. their big boy burger was copied by mcdonalds.
>>21877901What the hell went so wrong?
>>21877904no idea. they closed all their restaurants where I live sometime in the late 80's, and then back in the late 90's opened a new one. the food was not as good as it used to be. If I had to guess? mismanagement.
>>21877863It was called Elby's Big Boy here. Used to be obsessed with the place because I had autism. No, really I was diagnosed over 30 years ago.>>21877870Its good eats. I just haven't had it for awhile.
>>21877901Mine too but I ate there in the 90s.
>>21877911your guesser is broken grandpa
>>21877904They had a territory based franchising model that gave a good bit of freedom to each region. Bob's was different than Shoney's which was different than Frisch's. Over time, the Big Boy name became less important than the regional franchise name, so some of them like Shoney's broke away from the system to go it alone. Big Boy's panicked and started getting overly controlling with the remaining franchises. Around the same time, lots of fast casual chains popped up that better suited modern dining trends. Big Boy's was seen as a place for old people and followed Howard Johnsons into a death spiral. The current Big Boy locations bear little resemblance to the old chain. They're far more casual now, trying to balance getting some older customers with the legacy name with getting younger customers interested in easier dining.
>>21877863mcdonalds vs big boy is the 20th century equivalent of christianity vs mithraism
>>21877863Big Boy had the original big mac. That faggot clown ronald ripped our boy off
>>21877879somehow I knew this thread would involve david lynchHe's the only reason I even know this restaurant existsThat fucker and his distinct way of speaking, I can practically hear him saying "Bob's Big Boy" in his statement way right now
>>21878095Motherfuckers!
>>21878198I wonder how any person could see a photo of themselves like this and not be strongly compelled to lose weight.
>>21878203>>21878198>screenshot of a warrior in the middle of casting charge towards his targetyeah hes fat but its still an impressive photo
>>21877863Huh. I once went to a "Big Boy" restaurant in suburban Detroit, like in Novi or Livonia or somewhere like that, and had their equivalent of a Big Mac. Way better than McD's, honestly. They had some mac n cheese that was also ok. Wonder if there's any connection between these places. This one wasn't called Bob's.
>>21877901>They were insanely popular in the 70's.I lived in the US southeast in the 1970s and I never saw one Bob's Big BoyWe had Stuckey's and Morrison's Cafeterias
>>21878095100%
Cincinnati used to have plenty of Big Boy restaurants back in the early 80s. I remember someone painted one of the big boys in blackface as a prank, caused a huge stink at the time. There was also a deco big boy by Lunkin Airport called something like 'the mainliner'
>>21879089The southeast had Shoney's Big Boy. Eventually Shoney's decided they didn't need the Big Boy name and became independent.
>>21879242Nice Fotomat in the back left
>>21877941Any current food fixations?>>21878039Very interesting, thanks for the knowledge
Their desserts are pretty nice for that type of restaurant.
>>21877863I remember there was an episode of Murphy Brown where she stole one cause it looke like Jay Leno.
>>21877863Is Big Boy an Ustashe terrorizing Serbs?
>>21878198This must be an album cover
>>21880188You must go back
for me it was Hot Shoppes
>>21879089your experience is not all experience.
>>21877870I used to go to the Burbank one and it was both pretty decent and really reasonably priced, like $12 for a Big Boy combo that came with a salad, burger, and fries. Shit was probably all over the place with different locations though.
>>21879089Big Boy didn't work like modern franchises. instead they simply licensed their burger trademark to various unrelated restaurants. it's more like how soda works in fast food places now; purchase the right to serve coke or pepsi products.
You Know,WE SHOULD REALLY GO,BOB'SBIGBOYBURGERFor Lunch To-Day!
>>21881478When Shoney's broke away, the simply renamed the Big Boy burger to the All-American burger. They kept serving many of the same menu items they had before. Doesn't seem like the Big Boy company was actually providing much value to the franchisees.
This thread made me look up Shoneys and it's apparently making enough money to start expanding again
>>21882028in their day, the Big Boy name had enough brand recognition to be worth it. it was as recognised as a Big Mac today (which, is an unlicensed copy of the Big Boy burger)
>>21877870what is that shit supposed to mean you little BITCHget the FUCK out of here>>21877941>I had autismthat's funny as fuck
>>21883258Though not obvious at the time, Big Boy seems to have made a mistake in letting its regional franchisees make their own name prominent and to deviate too much from the core offerings. My first employer was Barpeg Enterprises, but you know them as Burger King. They owned a bunch of Burger King locations in central Alabama but as a customer, you'd never know the name of that company, you only knew you were at Burger King. Contrast that with Big Boy where the franchisee name was so well known, people often used it as the name when speaking to each other. When I was a kid, people would talk about going to Shoney's after church, not Big Boy's, even though at that time they were still a franchisee. Same for my relatives in the Midwest.
>>21877886It’s a stillsuit from Lynch’s Dune you media illiterate
>>21879138The edgelord 90’s comic ‘Johnny the homicidal maniac’ had the titular character hallucinating that a pair of Big Boy statuettes were basically his ‘Angel on one shoulder, devil on the other’ moral guides.
>>21878095that looks dry as shit
for me it's the swiss miss
>>21885315you're really gonna diss my boi Big Boy like that
>>21877863Why did they choose fallout boy as their mascot?
>>21877863How is this kino, it's just some dude with a greaser haircut
>>21877863Denny's and IHOP are struggling pretty bad right now
>>21878039>with getting younger customers interested in easier dining.what the fuck does easier dining mean?
>>21878039Ceiling isn't even finished being built yetThey should really wait for construction to end before they start serving customers.
>>21877863Denny's has always been total dogshit and IHOP is just specialty dogshit for lazy people. It takes 10 minutes to make pancakes at home.
>>21887477I assume it's the same millenializing trend of making everything look like an apple product.Either that or slang for Carhops.
>>21887248I think generally the problem with diners is that American tastebuds, and generally this is happening everywhere, are simply becoming broader and that's leading to less space for places that serve that midcentury version of American food. And once there's less market space in there for that food you're in competition with Burger Chains and Sandwich Chains that do faster, bigger sandwiches cheaper in smaller locations and frankly, less people are eating burgers for lunch because they have the choice of Burritos, Pad Thai, a Kebab Salad, Quinoa Bowl or Ramen Bowl instead. Frankly in 1980 you were less likely to have every one of those options near you, but today you pretty much had all of that and more.
