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
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Subject: Chain restaurants--California, Southern, Food processing plants--California--Los Angeles County, Hamburgers--Processing, Business
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., Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
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Contributor: Big Boy Restaurants International LLC (subject), Fontanini, Steve (photographer)
Date
Type: news photographs, StillImage
Format: 1 photograph
Identifier: edu.ucla.library.specialCollections.latimes:1591, uclalat_1429_b575_232825
Source
Language: zxx
Relation: Los Angeles Times Photographic Archive. Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Coverage: Glendale (Calif.)
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