Task: Text Simplification
Input (English): the company opened twice as many canadian outlets as mcdonald 's " wendy 's confirms tim hortons ipo by march " , ottawa business journal , december 1 , 2005 , and system-wide sales also surpassed those of mcdonald 's canadian operations as of 2002.
Output (English): the company opened twice as many canadian outlets as mcdonald 's canadian operations as of 2002.