The logo for the fast food chain Wendy's is based on a real person, and that little girl has grown up to look unrecognizable ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio — Dave Thomas, the folksy founder of the Wendy's hamburger chain whose homespun commercials helped turn it into one of the world's top fast-food enterprises, died Tuesday of liver ...

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, ...

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.