* 1969 – In Columbus, Ohio, Dave Thomas opens the first Wendy's restaurant.

She later starred as Wendy Conway in the television sitcom Wendy and Me ( 1964 – 1965 ) with George Burns, who also produced the show and played an older man who watched Wendy's exploits upstairs on the TV in his apartment, periodically commenting to the viewers about what he saw.

* Dave Thomas ( American businessman ) ( 1932 – 2002 ), founder, former chairman & spokesperson of the North American Wendy's fast-food chain

* May 24, 2000 – Five employees of a Flushing, Queens, Wendy's restaurant are killed and two are seriously wounded during a robbery that netted the killers $ 2, 400.

The Dew Tour returned to the Rose Quarter again with the Wendy's Invitational on August 12 – 15, 2010, marking the tour's sixth year in Portland, which is the only city that has qualified to host the tour in every year since its inception.

Murphy asked Joyce and Wendy's founder, Dave Thomas ( 1932 – 2002 ), to be present for the opening, which was reportedly the first time the business executives had met.

Businesses include two jewelry stores, and Mr. Lock locksmith, as well as local outlets of New York NY Deli Cafe, Wendy's, LaRosa's Pizza, National City Bank, Fifth Third Bank, Walgreens, and Kroger ( headquartered in Cincinnati ).

International brands dominant in North America include Wendy's, the number three burger chain in the USA ; Dunkin ' Donuts, a New England based chain ; automobile oriented Sonic Drive-In's from Oklahoma City ; Starbucks, Seattle-born coffee-based fast food beverage corporation ; KFC, a part of the largest restaurant conglomerate in the world, Yum!

International Paper is the largest producer of plastic lids and paper cups, manufacturing for the fast-food giants McDonald's, Wendy's, Subway and coffee giant Starbucks.

The Montague " combo store " concept eventually led to an informal partnership between Tim Hortons and Wendy's, and several years later Wendy's would merge the companies, in exchange for Joyce accepting Wendy's stock — Joyce thus became the largest single shareholder of Wendy's, even larger than Thomas himself.

In order to appeal to as many demographic groups as possible and better compete with its competitor Wendy's, Burger King added a multi-tiered value menu in 1993 with items priced at 99 ¢, $ 1. 99 and $ 2. 99 ( USD ).

First airing on January 10, 1984, the Wendy's commercial portrayed a fictional fast-food competitor entitled " Big Bun ", where three elderly ladies are served an enormous novelty hamburger bun topped with a minuscule hamburger patty.

Although chips were already a popular dish in most Commonwealth countries, the thin style of French fries has been popularized worldwide in part by U. S .- based fast food chains such as McDonald's, Burger King, Wendy's, and Arby's.

** Dave Thomas, American fast food entrepreneur ( Wendy's ) ( b. 1932 )

In 1997, when US comedian Ellen DeGeneres came out of the closet on her popular sitcom, many sponsors, such as the Wendy's fast food chain, pulled their advertising.

" advertising campaign for the Wendy's fast food restaurant chain, created by the Dancer Fitzgerald Sample advertising agency.

The phrase originated as a slogan for the fast food chain Wendy's.

Neighboring fast food restaurant advertisement signs in Bowling Green, Kentucky for Wendy's, KFC, Krystal ( restaurant ) | Krystal and Taco Bell

In 2006, he appeared in a commercial for Wendy's fast food.

During the early 1990s, Danny Murphy, a franchise owner of both Tim Hortons coffee shops and Wendy's fast food restaurants in Prince Edward Island wanted to combine both franchises under one roof in a new development in Montague.

Besides American Chinese restaurants, popular fast food restaurants such as McDonald's, Burger King, and Wendy's carry their own brand of sweet and sour sauce packets.

Originally, the show wanted 11 contestants, 10 from the nationwide search, and another from a contest that was being sponsored by the popular fast food chain Wendy's.

* In the movie Coming to America, the address of McDowell's restaurant is 8507 Queens Boulevard in Elmhurst, which is currently a Wendy's fast food restaurant.

She mimes her trumpet solo " Genevieve " to a rendition by jazz trumpeter Kenny Baker, before falling fast asleep moments later, to Wendy's great amusement.

The episode features cultural references to two chains of fast food restaurants, Wendy's and McDonald's, as well as a reference to the 1981 arcade video game Ms. Pac-Man.

These toys, collectively known as " Glo Friends ", were so successful that American fast food chain Wendy's in 1989 also released a series of 12 soft vinyl toys to advertise their chain.

As a result of this fast food joints like Pizza Hut, Wendy's, Church's Chicken, Burger King and even a mall have opened in the municipality.

Fast food companies such as KFC, Wendy's, and Burger King have been targeted.

There are some major food chains in Roanoke such as Subway, Wendy's, Taco Bell, Taco Bueno, Sonic, Chili's, McDonald's, and Dickey's Barbecue.

It houses eateries including The Falcon's Nest food court, The Bowling Greenery, Starbucks, Wendy's, and The Black Swamp Pub.

A mall-style food court is also located in the complex with restaurants like Wendy's, Cold Stone Creamery, Taco Bell, and Subway.

Mainstream restaurants and fast-food businesses such as Wendy's, McDonald's and more, as well as legendary food stops like Johnny's Lunch, known for their Texas hots and cited on ESPN in an interview with former NY Yankees Pitcher Randy Johnson citing it to be his favorite restaurant, make the village a " feeding frenzy ".

* 8 Dave Thomas, 69, US entrepreneur, founder of Wendy's hamburger restaurants.

The phrase first came to public attention as a U. S. television commercial for the Wendy's chain of hamburger restaurants in 1984.

A second round of related commercials showed actual customers who had ordered a Whopper instead being provided with a Big Mac from McDonald's or a hamburger from Wendy's.

At the time of his death, there were more than 6, 000 Wendy's restaurants operating in North America.

There are several fast-food restaurants including: Kentucky Fried Chicken, Bojangles, Papa John's, Wilco, Maryland Fried Chicken, Advanced Auto Parts, Hardee's, Subway, Pizza Hut, Domino's Pizza, Wendy's, and McDonald's.

* Besides Lambert's Cafe, other Sikeston restaurants include Arby's, Applebee's, Buffalo Wild Wings, Burger King, Dairy Queen, Domino's Pizza, Hardee's, Jay's Chicken, Kirby's Sandwich Shop, KFC, Long John Silver's / A & W, Mexican Villa ( open since 1977 ), McDonald's, Papa Murphy's, Pizza Inn, Pizza Hut, Sonic Drive-In, Subway, Ruby Tuesday in Miner, Taco John's, Taco Bell, and Wendy's.

However, after the Prego commercial aired on television in 1985, Wendy's management decided to terminate her contract, contending that the Prego commercial implies " that Clara found the beef at somewhere other than Wendy's restaurants ".

" as a promotion for Wendy's restaurants ' famous advertising campaign featuring Clara Peller.

Wendy's restaurants had a Jetsons kids ' meal tie-in.

* 1995: Hardee's sells 45 company-owned Roy Rogers restaurants in New York region to Wendy's International Inc.

The Frosty is the signature frozen dairy dessert of Wendy's fast-food restaurants.

In 2006, Wendy's sold the roughly 300-location Baja Fresh chain for $ 31 million to a private investor consortium that operates other restaurants, including Sweet Factory, La Salsa, Cinnabon and Denny's.

The family owns franchises for Wendy's restaurants in South Carolina.

The Wendy's franchise was granted to Joseph F. Desmond by founder Dave Thomas in 1972, and Desmond has since built JEM into an organization that currently () owns and operates 23 Wendy's restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area and California Central Valley.

The Chicago area boasts more hot dog restaurants than McDonald's, Wendy's, and Burger King restaurants combined.

Notably, these restaurants include: Kelsey's, Ruby Tuesday, Dairy Queen, Wendy's, Burger King, Tim Hortons, Montana's Cookhouse, Boston Pizza ( the biggest of all the Boston Pizza locations in Canada ), Rainforest Cafe, Mama Mia's, Hard Rock Cafe Niagara, Planet Hollywood, and a Pizza Pizza Restaurant.

His Shagg E. Dawg character was used on information cards about endangered species that were included with kid's meals from Wendy's fast-food restaurants in 1993.