CARL'S JR. TAKES OVER EAST'S HARDEE'S RESTAURANT CHAIN : HOT OFF THE GRILL.Byline: Estes Thompson Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Carl's Jr. will spread its sloppy burgers in the East and get a new breakfast menu in its parent company's $327 million purchase of Hardee's. Restaurants will have the Hardee's and Carl's Jr. names under the deal announced Monday. Hardee's - the fourth-biggest burger chain behind McDonald's, Burger King and Wendy's - will become a subsidiary of Carl's Jr. parent, CKE CKE Clock Enable (memory signal) CKE Carl Karcher Enterprises, Inc. (restaurant chain) CKE Certified Kitchen Design Educator CKE Catia Knowledge Engineering CKE Content and Knowledge Engineering Restaurants. Hardee's owner, Montreal-based Imasco Ltd., reported last week that the chain lost $7.9 million in the first quarter, a 20 percent increase from a year earlier. Hardee's slack sales could be reversed by a plan already in the works to convert from frying food to grilling, said H. Stephen McManus Stephen "Mick" McManus (born 10 September 1982), is a professional footballer who plays in defence and is captain of Celtic F.C. McManus grew up following Partick Thistle and cites his early hero as Chic Charnley, an enigmatic Thistle player of the time who longed to play for , who stays as Hardee's Food Systems president. He said many customers were turned off years ago when Hardee's changed to frying. ``Those of you who know us thought more of us when we were char-grilling burgers,'' McManus said at a news conference. ``That's the roots of Hardee's and part of the success that Carl's has had.'' Hardee's sales last year totaled $2.98 billion. CKE had $742 million, including sales from its Rally's, Green Burrito Green Burrito is an American fast-food restaurant chain run by CKE Restaurants, Inc., located mostly on the Western Half of the United States in Pacific, Mountain and West Coast regions, and serves fast-food Mexican food. , Taco Bueno Taco Bueno is a U.S.-based fast food restaurant chain that specializes in Mexican food. Founded in Abilene, Texas in 1967, the chain has stores in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, and Arkansas with concentrations in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, Abilene, , JB's, HomeTown Buffet HomeTown Buffet is a buffet-style, sit-down restaurant chain headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota with locations throughout the United States. Its wide selection of food include pizza, hot dogs, hot wings, sliced ham among many others. and Galaxy Diner restaurants. William P. Foley II, chairman of Anaheim-based CKE, said Hardee's offered too many menu items and that those that don't sell will be eliminated during test marketing. McManus said Hardee's fried chicken Fried chicken is chicken which is dipped in a breading mixture and then deep fried, pan fried or pressure fried. The breading seals in the juices but also absorbs the fat of the fryer, which is sometimes seen as unhealthy. would be eliminated in the first test market of the combined companies in Peoria, Ill. Carl's menu features large burgers that are advertised with a slogan, ``If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face.'' One ad features construction workers eating on a scaffolding, where the burger drippings narrowly miss pedestrians but hit a pigeon. The merger creates a chain of 3,828 restaurants - 3,152 Hardee's outlets in 40 states and 10 foreign countries and 676 Carl's Jr. outlets, primarily in California. CAPTION(S): Photo |
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