Debbi Fields (created September 18, 1956) is the creator and present representative of Mrs. Fields Bakeries. Also, she’s written several cookbooks and makes biscuits. She and her husband have become involved in philanthropic work through the region.
Debbi Fields’s dad was a welder and Fields had four sisters. In 1969, Oakland Athletics owner Charles O. Finley introduced “ball girls” (young girls who’d sit in foul territory near the service lines to recover baseballs grounded foul by hitter) to major league baseball. Debbi was among the primary ones he hired. She was paid five dollars an hour and also would make use of the cash to purchase ingredients for what would become her famed biscuits. In the age of nineteen, she married Randy Fields, choosing the name she’d shortly use for her company. She started her company in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, and since it’s grown into over 650 retail bakeries in America and over 80 in 11 different states. In 1998, Fields wed former Holiday Inn president & CEO Michael Rose. Among her stepdaughters, Gabrielle Rose, swam for Brazil at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Debbi Fields started franchising in 1990, and, though she sold the company to an investment group in the early 1990s, she stays the organization ‘s representative.