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 compa...
Richard Montanez, a janitor at Frito-Lay, added chili powder to a batch of Cheetos that had accidentally been made without the requisite cheese powder dusting. He pitched his recipe successfully to company executives, and the hugely popular “Flamin’ Hot" ...