European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - July 4, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Focus Chicago comes to London Story and photo by King Cruger Bureau chief when chicagoan Bob Payton came to London 12 years ago As an advertising he looked around and pretty much liked what he he liked it so much that four years when his Bosses at Walter Thompson told him it was time to return he refused to Payton recalls telling i want to but they do make Lousy pizza Over there was a Burly Guy with a wonderful sense of who desperately missed a kind of Dee dish pizza that then was served Only in Chicago and who also needed to make a living in he went borrowed pounds about now and opened a Dee dish pizza restaurant Britain first the Chicago pizza pie factory in the British capitals West the restaurant was such a Success that it soon moved into larger quarters in Hanover Square and imitation Dee dish pizza joints started springing up we did that restaurant and it but i  eat pizza every Day although he did for 18 months until he began researching the recipe for another of his american loves authentic so i said lets do some Payton told a visitor to the world Headquarters of his my kind of town group of near harrods in fashionable in the course of his ribs the 41yearold Payton ate his Way through 85 rib meals in eight that research resulted in the opening of the Chicago rib Shack at 1 Raphael right next door to his present the Chicago rib Shack was the first to bring barbecued baby Back ribs to London along with onion loaves and deep Fried potato we did the rib restaurant and it but i needed a Good singles bar to hang out at so then we opened Henry Beans but his friends All Call him Hank bar and Grill which is cheeseburgers and Chili and brews sort of like Butch Mcguire in there Are two Henry Beans in one in Abingdon Road off Kensington High Street and another in the heart of not Content to rest on his Payton then opened a seafood restaurant in Payton plaice at 96 Charing Cross a Chicago rib Shack at 5 Rue de Berri in Paris and a Chicago pizza pie factory at 300 Provenza in having made a bundle in the american restaurant business in Payton a just purchased one of England great stately Stapleford Park in Leafy Leicestershire and plans on investing some million pounds about million to turn it into a 35bedroom country hotel and sporting pay tons very upmarket place in the country will open next summer and will offer guests the Chance to try their hand at Fox fishing or Fox Hunting is my sport and this place has the most fabulous stable Block in the whole it will be a sort of Disneyland for grownups where americans can come to experience How the English the very wealthy anyway used to live at the end of the last there has been a Little disquiet about pay tons plans and the Leicestershire press has talked about pizza palaces and United stately but american Bob Payton in front of one of his London the self assured Payton sees this Only As reinforcement of his belief that the British really dont like to see anyone succeed at Here in sort of resented by people who who the hell does he think he is coming Over Here and making All that Money off us in teaching people How to go out and have a Good teaching people that they can take their kids out to the same restaurant and they can All enjoy the English feel that there is something immoral about All said a British Magazine writer once wrote that part of pay tons Success is because he abuses his customers he hides the restaurant Doest put up signs and bans pipes and people love queuing for a whole evening before being herded into a bar the size of a cattle pen where a few Strong drinks soon have them believing Chicago is just around the Payton int a fellow to hide his no matter How unpopular they might be with the Hes been quoted As saying that americans might eat junk food but the English eat junk and that people the English live in such Dull their enjoyment of life has to be had somewhere else where they can forget about their cold unlike people Here go out for a total food is when asked by the English Why it is that americans want to come to England and eat american Payton has a ready my answer to that is that there is no English food that Worth its you can go to los Angeles or Hong Kong and in each of those cities you will find american greek French or but youll never find an English people ask me Why i Knock English its because the Best Cornish pasty is not As Good As the worst rack of Tell me that you can make great Yorkshire pudding and i say so what Payton believes the secret of his Success from having exceedingly mass has been in modifying the american restaurant experience for european i dont like waitresses who come up and i my name is in your waitress today and can i Tell you about today special weve got Lovely breaded Mackerel that done by our that All customers dont want to know our waitresses Wear name tags that Judy so you can Call her Judy if you want but she Doest i my name is Judy and the waitresses dont have a Nice they say hello and goodbye and that Payton said that the most difficult thing about introducing american food into Europe is being Able to get the right people to serve every English person you talk who has been to the remarks on How great the service is in weve gotten work permits Here for our american staff even with million unemployed in the Guy at the Home office the Branch of the British government that issues work permits to foreigners told me that he want giving me the work permits simply because americans come in and expect to see americans working in my but he was doing it because he believes that by offering american service in increasing the Quality of life in the City for the although who has an apartment in knights Ridge and a House in the now chooses to live in he certainly Hast stopped being very much an Payton thinks America is on a real High at the moment and that president Reagan has done a lot to enhance the image of Good wholesome i get a generally Good feeling about much More than i did 12 years ago when i first came he whether America is on a Roll or Payton has no intention of moving Back there for he believes that London is the last outpost of civilized i stay Here because of the Quality of no one messes with you Don get some Guy coming up to you in the Street and can i have a Quarter Ive got an old Bike with a Dinky Little lock on it that been sitting outside the restaurant for seven years and it has never been this is the safest place in the whole no one walks around carrying its just when i want it to be America i go into one of my restaurants and when i want it to be England i go out into the its the Best of All possible stripes Magazine fury