Carl's Jr.

Carl's Jr., is an American-based fast-food restaurant chain, predominantly operates in the Western and Southwestern states. As of 2013 it has started expanding or is already in Canada, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Denmark, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, Ecuador, Turkey and China. CKE Restaurants, Inc owns the chain.
Carl Karcher founded the predecessor of Carl's Jr. in 1941; he jump-started his operations with the opening of his first restaurant, a sit-down full-service location called Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque. As this grew wildly successful, he decided to open up a chain of smaller restaurants called Carl's, with more limited menus. In 1954, the chain was renamed Carl's Jr. and the fast-food chain took off. In combination with its sibling restaurant-chain Hardee's, Carl's Jr. is in the top ten fast-food chains in the United States after Subway (33,000+ locations), McDonald's (32,000+ locations), KFC (17,000 locations), Burger King (11,500+ locations), Wendy's (6,700+ locations), Taco Bell (6000+ locations), Popeyes (1900 locations), Chick-fil-A (1700 locations) and Church's Chicken (1600+ locations).
== See also ==
* Hardee's
* List of Carl's Jr Playgrounds 
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