Image: Historic Big Boy Restaurant Franchisee Logos

Description: Logos of historic Big Boy franchisees. This is a composition of 29 logos. Marks of various historical regional franchisees of the Big Boy restaurant system. These "co-brands" were required by Bob Wian to be used along with the Big Boy name/mark to represent Big Boy restaurants. The graphic is an array of 29 historic franchisee logos to be placed in the franchisee section of the article. This is a composition of 29 logos owned by various entities as follows. Operating as Big Boys: Frisch's: Frisch's Restaurants, Inc. Azar's: Azar Incorporated (franchisee of Frisch's Restaurants) Bob's: Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC. (Successor) Operating, no longer affiliated with Big Boy: Eat'n Park: Eat'n Park Restaurants, Inc. Shoney's: Shoney's North America, LLC JB's: JB's Restaurants, Inc. Lendy's: Oi Polloi LLC (new trademark registration filed, pending approval) Not Operating, known or assumed owners Elias Brothers, Elby's, TJ's: Big Boy Restaurants International, LLC. (Successor) Vip's, Kebo's, Leo's: JB's Restaurants, Inc. (Successor) Kip's: Frisch's Restaurants, Inc. (Successor) Marc's: Marcus Corporation Manners: Sara Lee Corporation (Successor) Shap's, Tunes: Shoney's North America, LLC (Successor) Franklin's: Friendly's Restaurants (Successor) Others: defunct and unknown Word mark placed in red oval ground Note: Because Eat'n Park, Shoney's, and JB's are operational restaurants not affiliated with Big Boy, their logos displayed here are marks used only while a Big Boy franchisee, circa 1960. The entire word mark was generally used placed in a red oval ground. The red oval ground was used by Bob's (parent franchisor) and most others but not all franchisees. (The oval scheme was offered on master artwork of menu's, matchbook covers, and ad past-up art. This material was provided to the franchisees to personalize.) The oval provided visual contrast and balance of the various marks displayed together. The extensions of the Eat'n Park word mark were truncated at the oval's edge. These regional franchise marks will be as essential as the overall Big Boy logo presented in the infobox. Big Boy restaurants were historically presented and known by the combined name/logo of the regional franchisee and that of Big Boy. Bob Wian required franchisees to use their own/existing name and the franchise agreement required promotion of the Big Boy name/mark. (Big Boy was unique in this way and complicates this rational template which is designed for a single logo.) The red oval ground was used by most but not all franchisees. Its use provides ground but also balances the visual composition. The logos are arranged in an alphabetical array excepting that Bob's, as the original parent franchise, is slightly larger and placed at the top center. These marks were widely published. Franchise logos displayed may not be the only design used. When multiple logos were found, the logo displayed represents one used exclusively while a Big Boy franchisee, if possible. Logos for Arnold's, Bud's and Chez Chap were not found and are presently omitted. HISTORIC PURPOSE. Logos included do not infer current affiliation with Big Boy Restaurants (Big Boy Restaurants International or Frisch's Big Boy Restaurants, current parent owners of the Big Boy mark). The graphic serves historic local affiliation in the relevant section of the Big Boy Restaurants article. DISCLAIMER: EAT'N PARK RESTAURANTS, SHONEY'S RESTAURANTS AND JB'S RESTAURANTS ARE NOT NOW BIG BOY RESTAURANTS. THEY ARE INDEPENDENT OPERATIONS. Current Big Boy Restaurants can be found at http://www.bigboy.com/locations/ and http://www.frischs.com/
Title: Historic Big Boy Restaurant Franchisee Logos
Credit: Most logos were vector traced from raster sources, primarily from images of items sold on Ebay, which have since expired; their web page and image(s) not now available online. Some images were saved and are now re-posted at postimg.cc. Original Ebay URLs are not known. When possible, images of a few items were posted and listed to support regenerated logos. In a few cases URLs to web pages are posted. Because most word marks are traced to vector format, the sources serve to authenticate word marks designs. Abdow's Abdow's Big Boy comic book back cover Azar's Early Azar's Big Boy menu Later Azar's Big Boy menu 1974 Azar's newspaper advertisement Becker's Becker's guest check pad Print Ad from Suburban News, Spencerport NY, December 5, 1963 Bob's Bob's Big Boy print advertisement, c1967 Original Bob's Big Boy comic book back cover Eat'n Park 1950s Eat'n Park menu Eat'n Park Big Boy comic book back cover Elias Brothers Elias Brothers Big Boy comic book back cover Elias Brothers drive-in menu board Elias Brothers menu Elby's 1950s Elby's menu Elby's paper cup Elby's matchbook cover Franklin's USPTO trademark record with image Photograph with Franklin's sign (logo) Customer notice Frejlach's Print advertisement in Brookfield Citizen, May 4, 1961 Take out box Frisch's Vector format source used Nonexecuted stock certificate displaying Frisch's logo JB's JB's menu 1 JB's menu 2 Print advertisement in Lawrence Journal World, August 16, 1975, p2C Kebo's Kebo's menu 1 Kebo's menu 2 Kebo's matchbook cover Ken's Ken's matchbook cover Ken's Adventures of the Big Boy comic book #151 back cover Kip's Kip's logo on automobile trash bag Kip's Adventures of the Big Boy comic book back cover Lendy's USPTO trademark record with image Graphics displayed at the Lendy's retro website Leo's Leo's matchbook cover Leo's menu Print advertisement from The Spokesman-Review, Spokane WA, January 28, 1971, p5 Manners Manners menu Manners paper placemat Manners Big Boy neon sign Marc's Marc's Big Boy comic book back cover Marc's matchbook cover McDowell's McDowell's uniform patch McDowell's Big Boy comic book back cover McDowell's printed napkin Mr. B's Low resolution source (from a Mr. B's Employee Newsletter Archived from Janie's Big Boy Homepage, which is now defunct. Logo required artistic interpretation; the "B" and "s" appear to be those used in the "Bob's" logo and were applied to the regenerated logo. Shap's Shap's paper placemat Shoney's Shoney's menu insert Shoney's Big Boy comic book back cover 1 Shoney's Big Boy comic book back cover 2 Ted's Ted's matchbook cover Ted's logo on automobile hanging trash bag TJ's TJ's television commercial, date unknown Still image from above TJ's print advertisement in Fayetteville Bulletin Tops Tops print advertisement Tops matchbook cover Tops menu Tote's Tote's paper hat Tote's menu • see also Tunes Print advertisement from Bristol Daily Courier, December 5, 1957, p 34 Tunes Drive-in menu board Tunes matchbook cover Vip's Vip's menu 1 Vip's menu 2 Vip's ashtray Yoda's Yoda's logo on Johnny Weissmuller promotional photograph Traced from print advertisements posted at the Lendy's site. Item 1 on this page Item 2 on this page
Author: composition: Robert Thomas; individual logos: see above, specific designers unknown
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