Carl's Jr. is an American fast-food restaurant chain located mostly in the Southern, Western, and Southwestern United States. It is also in the process of expanding into Canada, Mexico, Malaysia, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam, and China. It was founded in 1941 by Carl N. Karcher, and is owned by CKE Restaurants, Inc. Carl Karcher's business was jumpstarted with the opening of his first restaurant, Carl’s Drive-In Barbeque. As this grew wildly successful, he decided to open up smaller chains of Carl's. In 1954, he changed the name to Carl's Jr. and the fast-food chain took off. Combined with its sibling restaurant chain Hardee's, Carl's Jr. is the #5 US fast food chain in size after Subway (33,000+ locations), McDonald's (32,000+ locations), Burger King (11,500+ locations) and Wendy's (6,700+ locations).
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