Actually, they're now the same company, or at least run by the same parent company. Check out their menus.
I do remember Hardee's back in the day. At first, they had great burgers. Then they expended their menu, and the quality of their burgers went way down. Great fried chicken, but their burgers sucked. After the "merger," they began concentrating on their burgers again, and they're not too bad now.
However, they've got AWESOME commercials. Makes liberals' heads explode!
Mark
see my reply #26, I googled and found that they were purchased in the 1990s, lol.