-Borned in Atlantic city
-Founder of Wendy's
-Mother died when he was 5 years old
-Also willing to work harder
-Served in the military as a cook
-Had 4 children in 6 years
-In the mid-1950s, Kentucky Fried Chicken founder Harland Sanders came to Fort Wayne to find restaurateurs with established businesses in order to try to sell KFC franchises to them
-In the first 6 years there where 100 Wendy's restaurants
-Dave Thomas created Drive -Thrus
-Thomas opened his first Wendy's in Columbus, Ohio, in 1969. (This original restaurant would remain operational until March 2, 2007, when it was closed due to lagging sales.) Thomas named the restaurant after his eight-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, whose nickname was Wendy, stemming from the child's inability to say her own name at a young age.
-Thomas, who considered ending his schooling the greatest mistake of his life, did not graduate from high school until 1993 when he obtained a GED
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