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The Columbus Dispatch : Bob Evans dies at 89

Bob Evans dies at 89
Restaurateur promoted better farming, conservation
Thursday, June 21, 2007 3:30 PM
By Mike Lafferty


THE COLUMBUS DISPATCH
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Bob Evans in 2003
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Bob Evans, who founded a retail sausage and family-restaurant business and became one of the best-known Ohioans of the 20th century, died today. He was 89.
Evans had suffered a stroke in February and was recovering when he contracted an infection and then suffered a collapsed lung. He died at about 12:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Clinic.
The Bob Evans family-style restaurant chain has more than 575 stores in 18 states. The food business has expanded beyond sausages to products ranging from biscuits to salads.



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Evans liked to tell a story about how, several years after he retired, he was stopped by a State Highway Patrol trooper who clocked him speeding. The trooper examined Evans' license and asked him if he were the real Bob Evans.
“I said I was, and he looked at the picture on the license and said, ‘You're not him; he's dead.'
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We used to go right by his original farm on our way home. It was near Jackson and Rio Grande, on the way to Chillicothe. I think the road has moved since then though. On a side note, the only speeding ticket I've ever gotten was going through Rio Grande, damn Ohio Highway troopers, I swear it was a speed trap.....:biggrin:
 
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I had the pleasure of meeting Bob Evans while in college at Ashland University. I was in SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise) at the time, and we would have corporate business speakers come to town and do give speeches to the local business owners. Well, he came to be a speaker for us and I got to sit next to him during lunch.

He was a very pleasant and funny person. He started off his discussion with us (the students) by stating that he was nothing more than a rich hillbilly. He went on to tell us a number of stories about how he got started, and how the most important things with being successful dealt with providing quality, whether it be goods or services.

He also told us how he had helped Colonel Sanders get started by buying a few of his franchises early on, and how they used to hang out together. The colonel had tried starting numerous businesses back in the day, and had trouble getting financial backing due to a number of his early businesses doing poorly.

He mentioned that the colonel really was a former military guy and was a tough son of a gun, even into his sixties. He recalled one specific incident where the two of them were eating at a diner somewhere, and a guy started talking badly to his girlfriend. The colonel apparently interjected, telling the man to stop or he would do something about it. In response, the man challenged the colonel in a "what are you gonna do about it" sort of way. The colonel then proceded to throw the younger man out of the restaurant, in a very literal way.

I also remember that they had just opened a Bob Evans restaurant in Ashland at the time (1994 I think), so we had called to make reservations for lunch there. They of course told us that they didn't take reservations. We told them that the reservations were for Bob Evans himself, but they didn't believe us. I think we eventually had to have is personal secretary (who always traveled with him) call the restaurant to get things squared away.

RIP
 
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RIP Bob

I don't know if it is still there but in the bathroom at the one right by my work, there was a sign on the mirror. Something along the lines of...

To make sure you are washing your hands long enough to get them clean, you should sing one verse of Old McDonald while washing.

Damn song was stuck in my head after every visit to the place.
 
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