PEERS Foundation – Pot O' Gold
Auction Ends: Mar 17, 2014 10:00 PM EDT

Dining

$20 Bob Evans Gift Card

Item Number
131
Estimated Value
20 USD
Sold
20 USD to js9246cbc
Number of Bids
4  -  Bid History

Item Description

$20. Gift Card toward purchase of any items at Bob Evans. Can be used for food or merchandise.

Item Special Note

Bob Evans Farms got its start when our founder, Bob Evans, began making sausage on his southeastern Ohio farm to serve at a 12-stool diner he owned in nearby Gallipolis in 1948.

"We served a lot of breakfasts, but we couldn't get any decent sausage," Bob recalled. "So I decided to start making my own from hogs raised right on our farm, using all the best parts of the hog, including the hams and tenderloins." The restaurant drew many truck drivers who traveled through the region. "You might say the truck drivers did my research for me," Bob said. "They would tell me that this was the best sausage they ever had, and then buy 10-pound tubs to take home."

These good reports prompted Bob Evans to go into the sausage business. The building where he made the sausage was built with open ends, at the suggestion of his father, so it could be used as a machinery shed if the sausage business failed. But, it didn't fail. In 1953, a group of friends and family recognized the growing demand for Bob's sausage and became business partners by establishing Bob Evans Farms.