Linwood Country Store - Pizza Guy
Linwood Country Store - Pizza Guy Statue!
I was out driving to another drone location and I saw this guy! He stands outside not far from my home. He used to hold a full size pizza. Originally he held a wooden spoon and was an icon for Happy Chef Restaurants, founded in 1963. At one time, Happy Chef had 56 locations in seven states but there are only a few restaurants left now. There were about a dozen of these 18-foot-tall fiberglass Chefs produced from the late 1960s until the early 1980s. When you pushed the button on his base, the Chef told jokes. The company destroyed the Chef statues as their restaurants closed so that they were not used “inappropriately”. However, a few escaped and were repurposed. This former Happy Chef is located at the Linwood Country Store. It was adapted and installed here in the early 2000s for Linwood Pizza. The pizzeria moved but the store that is there now continues to sell pizza and is keeping the statue. A couple of years ago in a winter snow storm the pizza fell off! www.Highergrounddrone.com #forestlakemn #wyomingmn #chisagolakes #centercitymn #stacymn #meinminnesota #explorechisagolakes #lakesareachamber #linwoodmn #happychef #linwoodcountrystore
