“We don’t need illegals or immigrant workers.”
Carl’s didn’t use them when I moved to California. It was still America in the late ‘60s, before our global oriented politicians flooded California with the third world.
Carl’s counter help were high school girls. The cooks were adults paid well enough to make a career out of it. The company wasn’t spending its money on soft porn ads. It didn’t need to advertise, the food quality sold itself.
Carl’s Jr/Hardee’s is an oddball in the Fast Food industry...
Two separate companies that are now the same but retain separate identity even though their menus are virtually identical.
I Grew up in the south where Hardee’s existed, they were always kinds the 3rd or 4th tier, but they had one thing the others didn’t a killer hot ham and cheese.... sadly the original is gone off most menus and they have a big hot ham and cheese which is not nearly as good... bun, cheese, ham ratios are all out of whack. Still one of my favorite fast food items when I can find a restaurant that still has the original.
For a while they had Roy Rodgers Chicken as well...
Hardee’s/Carl’s Jr is now just the place known for rediculously over the top burgers and poorly produced commercials with girls in bikinis.