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Bob's Big Boy food processing plant; machines turning out hamburger patties in Glendale, Calif., 1966

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Title: Bob's Big Boy food processing plant; machines turning out hamburger patties in Glendale, Calif., 1966
Contributor: Fontanini, Steve
Date Created and/or Issued: May 29, 1966
1966-05-29
Publication Information: Los Angeles Times
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archives
Rights Information: US
UCLA Library Special Collections, A1713 Charles E. Young Research Library, Box 951575, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575. Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu. Phone: (310) 825-4988
Description: PATTY MAKERS-Some restaurant chains are using automated equipment at central commissaries to process food items. At Bob's Big Boy plant in Glendale, four hamburger machines turn out more than 500,000 patties per week for delivery to 21 company restaurants in L.A. County. Each machine can make 3,600 per hour. Counting more than 500 franchised units, annual Big Boy volume is $225 million.
Type: image
Format: b&w negative
Identifier: uclalat_1429_b575_232825
ark:/21198/zz0002v2c1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Hamburgers--Processing
Chain restaurants--California, Southern
Food processing plants--California--Los Angeles County
Business
Big Boy Restaurants International LLC
Source: Los Angeles Times Photographic Collection

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