Debbi Fields
founder and spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries
Education
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Overview
Debbi Fields born is the founder and spokesperson of Mrs. Fields Bakeries. She has written several cookbooks and makes cookies. A resident of Memphis, Tennessee for over 16 years since she remarried in 1997, she moved to Nashville in 2014. Her late husband, Michael Rose, was the former CEO/Chairman of Holiday Corp. and Harrah's Entertainment, Inc. He died of cancer on April 2, 2017, at the age of 75.
Mrs. Fields Cookies operates in over 250 locations.
Early Life
Fields began her business in 1977 in Palo Alto, California, and at its height franchised 650 retail bakeries in the United States and over 80 in 11 different countries.
Fields and Randall had five daughters named Jessica, Jenessa, Jennifer, Ashley, and McKenzie, but divorced in 1997. On November 29, 1997, she married Michael Rose. One of her five stepchildren from their marriage, Gabrielle Rose, swam for Brazil at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Fields began franchising in 1990, and, though she sold the business to an investment group in the early 1990s, she remains the company's spokesperson.
The History Channel included Mrs. Fields Cookies in their third season (S3E6) of The Food That Built America series.
Career
- Mrs. Fields Bakeries - founder and spokesperson
