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Hardee's Founder Dead at 89

20080624-hardeeobit.jpgWilbur Hardee "died Friday ... in Greenville, N.C., the same town where he opened his first Hardee's location, giving birth to a hamburger franchise that is now a division of St. Louis-based CKE Restaurants Inc. Hardee's has grown to include 1,900 locations across the Midwest and Southeast and 200 international locations."

3 Comments:

Is Hardee's and Carl's Jr. under the same ownership group? In the ABC News obituary of Wilbur Hardee they have a picture of him with the same (orange star) logo that is used by west coast franchise Carl Jr.'s.

Enquiring minds want to know.

Yes. "In 1997, the chain was acquired by CKE Restaurants, the parent company of the Carl's Jr. fast-food restaurant chain. (Imasco retained the few remaining Roy Rogers locations, though CKE is reported to do some supplying of them). Over time, some Hardee's restaurants were converted to serve higher-quality hamburgers and other products available from Carl's Jr., and also took on the Carl's Jr. star logo in the process. Some locations were simply fully-rebranded Carl's Jr., this was a year after Wendy's and Tim Hortons purchased most of the Hardee's stores in Michigan." [Source: Wikipedia]

I love hardees's burgers, definately the best fast food burgers.

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