"Colonel Sanders saved me" -- Wendy's founder Dave Thomas on KFC icon
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Uploaded by Engardio on Dec 31, 2008
Dave Thomas was the founder of Wendy's. He began his career at age 25 after an unlikely meeting with Colonel Sanders of Kentucky Fried Chicken. Thomas was interviewed by Joel Engardio in June 1997 for the POV magazine column "When I Was 25" where successful people talk about their formative days.
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if dave was alive today he would be kicking ass all over the place. Wendy's has went from my favorite place to eat to a place that just disgusts me.
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Dave your the man
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Fascinating insight into these founding figures! if I ever visit the states I'll have to go to Wendys to see what its like.
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2:49 Me too Dave, Me too. Hot and juicy, indeed.
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Kfc is still really good to me..... but they both did stop serving as much food as they used to .
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You think so!!!????
For me, KFC pretty much went downhill in the late 80's and their system isn't the same as what the Colonel had in place. The chicken doesn't taste the same and they use different oil and the gravy isn't the same. Pretty much KFC is second rate chicken when compare to Popeye's Chicken... The funny part for me is the fact that Church's Chicken has better Chicken and cheaper prices than both Popeye's and KFC. But back in the day KFC was the best chicken in US.
1 year ago 2
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@teetertotter68 ------IDK but KFC still doing very well the man taught us alot
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he was like the Colonle he gave a lot away to help others not even knowing of his emmnit death
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@teetertotter68 wendys been bad
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I grew up with Dave Thomas in a way. From 16 to 18 I worked for Wendy's. I worked everything from the grill, to the cash register. I even appeared in a "Wendy's World" training video. Then after college at age 23 I returned to Wendy's as a manager,, going from shift sup, to Asistant manger to GM. Eventually I went on to use my degree as a teacher but I learned many good disciplines at Wendy's, hard work, loyalty, and diplomacy. White red green white red green yellow!
parisideon 2 years ago 14
They were both geniuses. When they passed, their franchises went bad.
teetertotter68 1 year ago 13