Dave Thomas (Wendys)

Dave Thomas came from poverty. He is the creater of wendys resturant chains.  He was born in Alantic city and his parents werent married when they had him and it was the middle of the depression. when he was 5 his adoptive mother died and his father was extremely strict. Daves dad had 3 more wives after the adoptive wife that died.His father wasnt a loving man but he did what he needed to for Dave. his father started to help working on the atomic bomb in Oak Ridge. He got a job at Regus which was  a family owned resturants. He worked when he was 12 and did the night shift and went to school still. Dave wanted to show his dad he could do this and make money. He said when he was young that he would have a chain of resturants.
He quit high school at 15 and moved out to the local YMCA and became a bus boy at the local resturant. Phil Clauss was the owner of the resturant and was amazed that Dave wanted to work hard and was enjoying it unlike other young guys who just wanted to work get paid and leave. 1950 Dave joined the army and went to Germany on the occupation tour and he became a cook there but had some bad experiences with baking. In 1953 he returned to Fort Wayne Idiana and met a waiter where he worked. Dave and Lorraine were married a year later.In 1954 Dave was a vetern in the resturant business at age 22. In 6 years him and lorraine had 4 children. Soon Dave met Harland Sanders also known as Colnel Sanders and was selling his recipe for chicken but those that bought it had to pay 5 cent royalties for each piece of chicken that they sold. Dave and Colnel became good friends.Dave eventually went out and started selling the  the Kentucky fried chicken products and going around to these stores that had been set up and was the regional manager. He only knew work and didnt have time to play or enjoy family time.He sold his own Kentucky fried chicken stores back to the company and then became a millionaire. By the 1960's he was a successful millionaire but he didnt want to retire then . He had a deep love for Hamburgers.He named his company after his daughter Wendy and the logo is from his daughter too. The first Wendys was opened in Colombus Ohio.He didnt have much time for family and things like that his life was pretty much all work.In the first 6 years there were 100 Wendys then the next year there were 500.They were opening more stores then McDonalds and they were adding new things all the time.Wheres the beef was the kinda Wendys statement that put them on the map for advertising . This slogan was even used in the presidential election of 74.In the late 80's Dave started to settle down and do things he wanted to do instead of overworking.They really worked on the quality of the burgers .