FROM THE ARCHIVE: Interview with Mrs. Fields Cookies founder Debbi Fields in 1984
FROM THE ARCHIVE: Interview with Mrs. Fields Cookies founder Debbi Fields in 1984 KGO Share: Share: SAN MATEO COUNTY, Calif. (KGO) -- Debbi Fields, the founder of the popular Mrs. Fields cookies first opened in Palo Alto in 1977. She was only 26 years old when she spoke to retired ABC7 Arts and Entertainment reporter Don Sanchez in November 1984. By the end of that year, she would have 65 stores and employed 600 employees with projected sales of $20 million. Debbi Fields grew up in Oakland, and credits her (ex) husband Randy, for starting her business. "He was genuinely concerned about whethe...
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