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Bob Evans (restaurateur)

Bob Evans, American businessman, founded Bob Evans Restaurants (died 2007)

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Born
May 30, 1918
Died
June 21, 2007
Zodiac sign
Gemini
Birth year
1918

About Bob Evans (restaurateur)

Robert Lewis Evans was an American restaurateur and marketer of pork sausage products. He founded a restaurant chain bearing his name. The company also owns Owens Country Sausage. Local restaurants were not willing to buy Evans' sausage, so he started his own, with the first opening on his farm in 1962. The first of these "new" Bob Evans Restaurants was located in Chillicothe, Ohio. By 2012, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. was a $1.7 billion restaurant and retail food products company with over 500 restaurants in 19 states.

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Bob Evans (restaurateur) timeline

  1. Local restaurants were not willing to buy Evans' sausage, so he started his own, with the first opening on his farm in 1962.
  2. By 2012, Bob Evans Farms, Inc. was a $1.7 billion restaurant and retail food products company with over 500 restaurants in 19 states.

The world when Bob Evans (restaurateur) was born

Bob Evans (restaurateur) was born in 1918. The year snapshot below places that birthday in its cultural and historical setting: the music and films people were following, the headlines shaping public life, and the everyday prices families encountered.

Culture in 1918

  • Best-selling book"The U.P. Trail" – Zane Grey

Headlines and milestones

  • Major sports momentWorld Series played in September due to WWI
  • Top headlineWorld War I ends — Spanish Flu pandemic begins
  • Technology milestoneFirst regular airmail service
  • World population~1.78B

United States snapshot

  • U.S. leaderWoodrow Wilson
  • U.S. population102.0M

1918 versus 2026

These figures put everyday life in Bob Evans (restaurateur)'s birth year beside the site's latest United States snapshot.

Measure19182026
Gas$0.25$3.45/gal
Postage stamp$0.03$0.73
Population102.0M341 million

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