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Bob’s Big BoyBy Russ StantonThe Orange County RegisterIRVINE — The pudgy little guy with the weird hairdo is history.Food-service giant Restaurant Enterprises Group Inc. announced Tuesday that it is buying the remaining 104 Bob’s Big Boy Restaurants in California — including 18 in Orange County — from Marriott Corp. and will convert them to Coco’s and Carrows dinner houses beginning later this year.The $65 million acquisition, which includes 16 Allie’s restaurants in San Diego County, willmark the end of one of Southern California’s best-known corporate characters.The fiberglass statuettes have been around since the 1940s, when founder Bob Wian fashioned them after a 6-year-old Glendale boy, Richard YVoodruff, who cleaned ice-cream containers at Bob's Pantry in exchange for double-decker hamburgers.It isn’t clear exactly when the Big Boy figures will disappear from the local landscape, or what will become of them. The deal is expected to close this summer and the conversion of the restaurants
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Santa Ana Orange County Register
Santa Ana, California, US
Wed, Jan 23, 1991
Page 58
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