Dave Thomas was vocal about his regret in naming his groundbreaking hit restaurant Wendy's after his daughter, Melinda "Wendy" Thomas. The restaurant's namesake spoke about this regularly in ...

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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world's most successful fast-food enterprises, has died. He was 69.

This story first appeared in The Journal Gazette on May 1, 1998. Somehow, you expect him to bound into the room, all smiles and animation, patting people on the back, going from table to table, asking ...

A Wendy’s Frosty a day for over a year with the purchase of a $3 keychain that benefits charity? Sounds good. Beginning earlier this November, which is National Adoption Month, Wendy’s brought back ...

America lost more than a businessman Monday night when Dave Thomas, patriarch of the fast food giant Wendy’s, died at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, at the age of 69. It lost a social activist, ...