Friday, October 8, 2010

Dave Thomas

-Dave thomas lifted himself out of poverty by creating wendy's
-A great american story about hard work
-Born in 1932
-When dave was 5 years old his mother died
-was not yet a teenager but was doing a full time job
-had a dream to have a chain of restaraunts
-quit highschool to work and live
-was willing to work extra
-he joined the army and learned to cook
-were married after a year af meeting laurane
-was a veteran in the food buisness when he was 23
-revolutionized the carry home food
-had 4 children in 6 years
-dave worked for kentucky fried chicken for a while
-sold his restaraunts for millions of dollars
-decided to make old fassioned hambergers
-called it wendys after his daughters nickname
-first day it opened it was a huge success
-his life was work
-in its first 2 years there were over 500 wendys
-never got to have fun as a kid so decided to have fun in his old age
-decided to go with quality over quantity

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