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Carl Nicholas Karcher SMOM (January 16, 1917 – January 11, 2008) was an American businessman who founded the Carl's Jr. hamburger chain, now owned by parent company Snow Star LP.
Jan 12, 2008 · Carl Karcher, who parlayed a single hot dog pushcart into a chain of more than 1,000 fast-food restaurants bearing his name, died Friday. He was 90.
On January 11, 2008, Carl Karcher, the founder of hamburger chain Carl's Jr., died at the age of 90. A spokeswoman for CKE Restaurants said Karcher suffered from Parkinson's disease and was being treated for Parkinson's-related pneumonia when he died at St. Jude Medical Center in Fullerton, California .
Jan 13, 2008 · ANAHEIM, Calif. (AP) Carl N. Karcher, who parlayed a $325 investment in a hot dog cart into one of the largest hamburger chains in the western United States, died Friday. He was 90.
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Jan 21, 2008 · Karcher, considered one of the last of the fast-food industry’s founding fathers and one of the few whose own name came to symbolize a far-flung restaurant empire, died Jan. 11, six days short of...
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Jan 13, 2008 · FULLERTON Calif. Fast-food legend Carl N. Karcher, whose $326 investment to launch a Los Angeles hot dog cart in 1941 grew into the 3,000-plus-branch CKE Restaurants system, died at the St....
Jan 11, 2008 · ANAHEIM — Carl N. Karcher, who parlayed a $325 investment in a hot-dog cart into one of the largest hamburger chains in the West died Friday. He was 90.
Jul 21, 2016 · July 21, 2016 at 10:19 a.m. The company that would become a fast-food burger empire ironically got its start 75 years ago selling hot dogs. On July 17, 1941, Carl Karcher sold 10-cent hot dogs,...
Apr 22, 2024 · Founded in 1941, Carl's Jr. has been a West Coast favorite for over 80 years, known for our iconic charbroiled burgers. Today, we have more than 1,000 locations across the U.S. and serves 28 countries worldwide.
Jan 11, 2008 · Founder of one of the largest hamburger chains in the western United States, Carl's Jr. Drive-in Barbecue. Karcher was a deeply religious man and father of 12, who started out as a bread truck driver in south Los Angeles. He bought a $325 hot-dog push cart, having to borrow $311 to pay for it.
