Hardee's

Founded in 1960, Hardee's Food Systems Inc. is a restaurant offering a wide range of breakfast, charbroiled burgers, chicken, sides, desserts and more. Based in Quincy, Ill., it offers a variety of charbroiled burgers, such as Texas Toast Bacon Cheese Thickburger, Cheeseburger Thickburger, Mushroom and Swiss Thickburger, Frisco Thickburger, regular cheese burger and hamburger kids meal, to name a few. Hardee's Food Systems Inc. is a subsidiary of CKE Restaurants Inc. that operates 3,149 franchised, licensed restaurants in 42 states and in 18 countries, including 1,239 Carl's Jr. restaurants and 1,898 Hardee's restaurants.