Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas opened the company’s first restaurant in 1969 in Columbus, Ohio, and named it after his daughter. Its advertising campaign in the 1980s, featuring a customer looking at a competing company’s hamburger, popularized the phrase “Where’s the Beef?” and boosted ...
When Jim Disbrow and Scott Lowery were living in Ohio in 1982, they had a hankering for Buffalo-style wings--only they realized there was nowhere to satiate their craving. As a result, the two men opened their own restaurant and Buffalo Wild Wings has since turned into an international craz...