Dave Thomas, 69, the jowly and bespectacled founder of the Wendy's restaurant chain whose avuncular presence in hundreds of television commercials since 1989 made him one of the country's most ...

Dave Thomas' Original Wendy's Closed Its Doors In 2007. The experience of eating at the first Wendy's was quite a bit different when it opened in Columbus, Ohio, back in 1969.

NPR's Chris Arnold reports that Dave Thomas, the founder of Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers, died today at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. He was 69 and had lived with cancer for the last ...

Wendy Thomas-Morse, the daughter of Wendy’s founder Dave Thomas, revealed in a recent interview that her father regretted naming his hamburger chain “Wendy’s.” (iStock) ...

This article was corrected on Jan. 20, 2002. Dave Thomas, the high school dropout who was adopted as an infant and went on to found and build up Wendy’s Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the ...

Construction began Wednesday on transforming “Dave Thomas Circle,” a confusing intersection in Northeast Washington that has long tested the patience of D.C. motorists. The $41 million project ...

A hazardous D.C. intersection once informally referred to as “Dave Thomas Circle” will be renamed to honor female African American baseball pioneer Mamie “Peanut” Johnson, officials said ...