[JohnnyP]

It used to be called Bob’s Big Boy.

[Red Badger]

Our’s was called Shoney’s Big Boy............

[Red Badger]

[hanamizu]

It was Bob’s Big Boy in SoCal. In the midwest it was Shoney’s—same Big Boy though.

[NautiNurse]

Shoney’s founder was Alex Schoenbaum, who played football for Ohio State University. Mr. Schoenbaum and his lovely wife Betty were philanthropists and beloved patrons of the arts in Sarasota.

[cyclotic]

It depends where you lived. There were different chains that used the Big Boy system and mascot. In Michigan it was Elias Brothers. Frisch’s restaurants used to be Frisch’s Big Boy.