ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Wendy’s Founder Dave Thomas was born in New Jersey in 1932 and died in January 2002. Read his biography and the story of his legacy – from founding the first Wendy’s in Ohio in 1969 to establishing the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption.

Detailed explanation-2: -On November 15, 1969, Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy’s Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurant in Columbus, Ohio. His boyhood dream was coming true.

Detailed explanation-3: -In December 1996, the portly Thomas had quadruple bypass surgery. Though he soon returned to his busy schedule of making commercials, he began undergoing kidney dialysis in early 2001. On January 8, 2002, at the age of 69, Thomas died of liver cancer at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Detailed explanation-4: -But Thomas later regretted his decision to name what would become a fast-food empire after his daughter, believing it put too much attention and pressure on her . “She’s lost some of her privacy, ” he said in his autobiography.

Detailed explanation-5: -The nation’s third-largest hamburger chain was started by the late Dave Thomas.