Dave Thomas, a successful Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise owner in Columbus, Ohio, and a protege of founder Colonel Harlan Sanders, was struggling in 1969 to find a name for a new hamburger concept ...

Thomas-Morse, who was actually born Melinda Thomas but went by the nickname of "Wendy," said her father expressed his remorse in a conversation they had before his death in 2002. “It was the first ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Dave Thomas built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into the world's third-largest fast-food chain, but his real fame came from the more than 800 television ads he made over the years ...

McDonald's got its name from the two brothers who founded it: Richard and Maurice McDonald. They named it after themselves, which makes sense: It's their restaurant. Wendy's is also named after a real ...

David "Dave" Thomas (born May 20, 1949) is a Canadian comedian and actor. He was born in St. Catharines, Ontario, but moved to Durham, North Carolina where his father, John E. Thomas, attended Duke ...

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Wendy's is one of the biggest fast-food chains in the county, but if its founder Dave Thomas had named it a few years later, the restaurant might have been called something totally different. Before ...

D.C. leaders cut the ribbon on the new Mamie “Peanut” Johnson Plaza on Monday afternoon, hoping the transformation of one of the city’s most dangerous intersections makes commutes safer. The plaza, ...

(FOX NEWS) -- One wonders if Ronald McDonald Jr. has the same problem. Wendy Thomas-Morse, the daughter of Wendy's founder Dave Thomas, revealed in a recent interview that her father once apologized ...