Category: Timeline Stories

Frisch’s opens a Big Boy in the Kentucky market.

The first Frisch’s Big Boy restaurant opens on Central Parkway near downtown Cincinnati, with eight counter seats and 60 car spaces for curb service.

Jack C. Maier joins the company as a part-time car-hop and marries Dave’s youngest daughter, Blanche, the following year.

Dave samples the Big Boy double-decked hamburger, created by Bob Wian of Glendale, CA. In what proves to be a momentous decision. Dave makes the Big Boy sandwich using his homemade tartar sauce to replace Mr. Wian’s recipe that called for Thousand Island dressing. Dave’s signature sauce becomes a key staple on Frisch’s menu.

Dave opens the Mainliner, Cincinnati’s first year round drive-in restaurant. The restaurant was named for the first tri-motor passenger plane that operated from nearby Lunken Airport. An image of the airplane was featured on its sign, and still is today.

Dave Frisch and two of his nine siblings, Reuben and Irving, take over restaurant operations following the death of their father.

David Frisch, the ninth of ten children is born to Samuel and Blanch Frisch.