Mars has said the face was originally modeled after a Chicago maitre d' named Frank Brown. In a short-lived 2007 marketing campaign, the company elevated Uncle Ben to chairman of a rice company.

The first Ben’s Original products are now available at retailers throughout the country in the place of Uncle Ben’s rice, parent company ... d’ named Frank Brown. The new packaging no ...

Frank Brown, a head waiter at an exclusive Chicago restaurant, later posed for the Uncle Ben’s portrait which has been seen on boxes of rice products for generations since. The company conceded ...

The name Uncle Ben's was supposedly inspired by a Texas farmer known for his high-quality rice. The company asked the head waiter at a fancy Chicago restaurant, Frank Brown, to pose as the face of ...

Mars Inc. has renamed its Uncle Ben’s rice products “Ben’s Original ... The portrait long used on the box was that of Frank Brown, the maitre d’ of a Chicago restaurant who agreed ...

The face that has appeared on the box of rice since the 1940s is that of Frank Brown, the headwaiter at an exclusive Chicago restaurant who agreed to pose for the portrait. The image of Uncle Ben ...

The company behind Uncle Ben’s rice has officially rebranded the ... was a beloved Chicago chef and waiter named Frank Brown.” The rice product was one of several prominent food products ...

Michigan native, Janice Williams is a graduate of Oakland University where she studied journalism and communication. Upon relocating to New York City, she held internships at celebrity news ...

Earlier this year, the Uncle Ben’s rice brand announced it would change ... but the brand’s image — a Black chef named Frank Brown — and marketing still drew on the historical labor ...

Mars, the owner of the Uncle Ben’s rice brand, released a statement on its website saying it plans to change its “brand identity” citing its “responsibility to take a stand in helping to ...

Mars has said the face was originally modeled after a Chicago maitre d' named Frank Brown. In a short-lived 2007 marketing campaign, the company elevated Uncle Ben to chairman of a rice company.