On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the hardees blueberry biscuit title. Hardee’s Restaurants LLC is an American fast-food restaurant chain operated by CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc.

In April 1997, CKE Restaurants Holdings, Inc. 327 million to Montreal-based Imasco Limited for Hardee’s. 3,152 Hardee’s outlets in 40 states and 10 foreign countries and 676 Carl’s Jr. Greenville, North Carolina, on September 3, 1960. According to Wilber Hardee, Gardner and Rawls won a controlling share of the company from him during a game of poker. After realizing that he had lost control over his namesake company, Hardee sold his remaining shares to them as well.

Rawls, who bought out Wilber Hardee and began establishing franchises in 1961. According to Jack Laughery, CEO of Hardee’s from 1975 to 1990, “Leonard put together an organization with relatively little capital. If it weren’t for him and Jim Gardner, there wouldn’t be anything of Hardee’s Food Systems. Rawls and Gardner sold their first franchises to a small group of longtime friends and acquaintances who formed their own companies and over time, built hundreds more franchised locations. Hardee’s Food Systems went public in 1963 with Rawls as president. Gardner, who was vice president, had political ambitions and left the company when he was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1966.

Strawberry milkshakes were created from vanilla by addition of a berry syrup which had to be mixed with a spindle. At the end of the 1960s, the corporation operated nearly 200 restaurants in the Midwest and Southwestern U. Around this same time, Hardee’s began an expansion into the mid-Atlantic states, notably Southeastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey, and Delaware. During the mid-and-late 1970s, Hardee’s saw rapid chain growth and high profits on the strength of its two key sandwiches: the “Big Twin” and the “Big Deluxe”. Hardee’s was purchased by Canadian company Imasco Limited in 1981. Imasco converted many locations to Hardee’s restaurants and let franchises and locations near existing Hardee’s locations convert to other brands. A new management team, in the early 1980s, seeking to cut costs, changed the signature burger recipe and eliminated the flagship menu item, the Big Twin.