Billionaire In A Bag

Northwest Life: Sunday, November 07, 1999

Bill Kossen

IF YOU HAD all the money in the world, where would you eat? Rover's, home of the $200 dinner? Denny's, home of the $2.99 Grand Slam Breakfast? Or Dick's Drive-In, home of a new bag that includes a picture of a man with glasses and the note: "Local billionaire often spotted eating at Dick's." But it's hard to tell which of many local bespectacled billionaires it is. Gates? Allen? The geek down the block?

That's the plan, according to Jim Spady, vice president of the local chain of five restaurants. But he seemed a bit nervous talking about the bag, stressing that the image on the bag isn't anyone in particular, "just clip art," and said such things as "for the record" and "just don't say I said it" and something about an "army of lawyers." Hey, don't worry. We know Bill and Paul have bigger fries to fish.

Wave goodbye to this controversy...

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