Isn't present day Carl's Jr. just Hardee's by another name? Hardee's began as a burger joint as well.

According to research from the University of Guelph, hotdogs are comparatively uncommon in fast food because hotdogs are harder to cook consistently and have a shorter window of enjoyability which makes them less suited to fast food than hamburgers.

> Isn’t present day Carl’s Jr. just Hardee’s by another name?

The corporate parent of Carl’s Jr. bought Hardee’s in 1997, but Carl’s stayed pretty much the same.

Yeah, I was thinking of the ubiquity of "street food hot dogs" which are now basically gone (Costco still has hot dogs, however, and baseball stadiums are required to have hot dogs).

How much of that is health code enforcement rather than demand?

That’s just it - health code enforcement got better and now you can’t feed people sawdust and rat.

Lucky Dog in New Orleans would like a word.

I think Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. were bought by the same company and then evolved towards each other.

Carl's Jr was 'transferred' to CKE (Carl Karcher Enterprises) which then acquired Hardees, and Hardees became Carl's Jr in everything but name (as far as I can tell). What was interesting is the absolute numbers: The "merger" created a chain of 3,828 restaurants – 3,152 Hardee's outlets in 40 states and 10 foreign countries and 676 Carl's Jr. outlets primarily in California.