This book/play presents a day in the life of the original DREAM QUEEN restaurant (a restaurant that grew to become the third largest burger chain in the western hemisphere). Before the book/play begins, 83-year-old Gertie Greenbaum is found dead in a pool of blood and ketchup. Four customers and three employees (each set in his or her own typographic voice and color) give testimony to how Gerite died, and continue their day discussing food, money, religion, politics, love, loss, dreams, memories, and fading aspirations. The text is illuminated with icons and images that evoke the fast food tableau, and the internal projections of the characters.

FRENCH FRIES Written by Dennis Bernstein & Warren Lehrer
Designed by Warren Lehrer, 1984, Visual Studies Workshop Press and EarSay Books
8”x11”x104 pages. Three colors on acid-free Mohawk Superfine. Hardcover [ketchup-resistant faux-leather cloth, die-cut over boards]. Color  separation by Phil Zimmermann.

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SAMPLE SPREADS

a poster announcing a performance of French Fries, designed by Joan Lyons using printers “waste sheets”