It’s interesting how things like that stick with us. When I was a kid, there used to be a place about an hour away called Happy Chef - just a typical dime-a-dozen family-style restaurant, but they had a giant chef statue and I was fascinated by that, but we never had the money to eat out like that.
Internet tells me there’s exactly one left and still open - the very first location, in Mankato, Minnesota:
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Haha, that’s one of my dream cars! I’d see them occasionally in the UK and think that I’d like to have one.