Big Boy brand wants to reopen 28 Frisch's locations; tartar sauce available if asked
An article in the Friday edition of Enquirer says Michigan-based Big Boy wants to reopen 28 former Frisch's locations and more later.
The paper didn't list the locations. However, the company is currently running help wanted ads online.
Seven of the ads are for restaurants in the Dayton area, several in Cincinnati (Delhi, Blue Ash, Beechmont, Colerain) and one in Kentucky (Maysville), so far.
Those ads do not add up to 28 so more to be announced.
What about the tartar sauce? People are commenting at our Cincinnati News Facebook that the Big Boy brand will substitute the thousand island dressing on the double decker with Frisch's-style tartar sauce when asked.
The type of condiment seems to be important to our readers.
Help Wanted ads give clues on Big Boy takeover locations
Owner of 'Big Boy' name wants to open here, Frisch's files suit to stop it
"New Frisch's" is the name of new owners that acquired the Frisch's brand and several locations in 2024.
The group is suing Big Boy Restaurant Group for allegedly violating an agreement that was settled in 2001.
PHOTO: Big Boy's classic burger features two beef patties, on a sesame seed bun with American cheese. Doesn't look like it includes tartar sauce, but it does have a "special sauce", some say it's thousand island dressing.
Readers now living in Michigan say Big Boy will substitute with tartar sauce when asked.
"New Frisch's" acquired
the right to use the Big Boy name in Kentucky, Indiana, and most of Ohio and Tennessee
The lawsuit claims that Big Boy Restaurant Group is negotiating with NNN REIT, the property owner of closed restaurants, to reopen some as simply "Big Boy", according to Google AI.
Big Boy Restaurant Group, LLC, doing business as Big Boy, is an American
casual dining restaurant chain headquartered in Southfield, Michigan. It owns the brand name "Big Boy", Frisch's has to pay that company to use it.
Help Wanted ads give clues on Big Boy's plans in the area. It is seeking staff for locations in Cincinnati and Dayton.
A quick look at the ads ( click ) found only one help wanted listing for a Kentucky location, so far, and that one is in Maysvlle.
In the midst of its reorganization amid its financial troubles, New Frisch's claimed it had discovered that Big Boy, the Southfield, Michigan-based owner of the diner brand nationally outside of Frisch's territory, had been negotiating with its former landlord, Orlando-based NNN Reit, to reopen old Frisch' locations as competing "Big Boys" starting next month, says the Cincinnati Enquirer.
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