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W hen Dave Thomas founded Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers in Columbus, Ohio in 1969, he already had years of experience in the fast food industry. Most notably, he had learned a lot from Colonel ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) - Dave Thomas, the portly pitchman whose homespun ads built Wendy's Old-Fashioned Hamburgers into one of the world's most successful fast-food enterprises, has died. He was 69.

He opened his first Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers in Columbus a year later. He named the restaurant after his 8-year-old daughter Melinda Lou, nicknamed Wendy by her siblings. The chain now has ...