Matches in DBpedia 2015-10 for { ?s ?p "Carl's Jr. is an American-based fast-food restaurant chain operating in the Western and Southwestern states. As of 2015 it has started expanding or is already in Canada, India, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Denmark, Guatemala, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Turkey, Indonesia, United Kingdom, China, The Bahamas, Mexico, and Japan. CKE Restaurants, Inc owns the chain.Carl Karcher founded the predecessor of Carl's Jr. in 1941; he jump-started his operations with the opening of his first restaurant, a sit-down full-service location called Carl's Drive-In Barbeque. As this grew wildly successful, he decided to open up a chain of smaller restaurants called Carl's, with more limited menus. In 1954, the chain was renamed Carl's Jr. and the fast-food chain took off.The parent company, CKE Restaurants, Inc., purchased the Hardee's chain in 1997, and is slowly amalgamating the two chains.In 2012, Nation's Restaurant News rated Carl's Jr. as the #37 foodservice chain in the United States based on sales through 2011. Hardee's was listed at #28. If the two chains sales were combined, they would have been at #15. In 2013, QSR listed Carl's Jr. at #24 and Hardee's at #20; if combined they would have been listed at #14."@en }
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- Carls_Jr. abstract "Carl's Jr. is an American-based fast-food restaurant chain operating in the Western and Southwestern states. As of 2015 it has started expanding or is already in Canada, India, Dominican Republic, Brazil, Puerto Rico, Malaysia, Denmark, Guatemala, Costa Rica, New Zealand, Singapore, Russia, Vietnam, Thailand, Panama, Colombia, Ecuador, Turkey, Indonesia, United Kingdom, China, The Bahamas, Mexico, and Japan. CKE Restaurants, Inc owns the chain.Carl Karcher founded the predecessor of Carl's Jr. in 1941; he jump-started his operations with the opening of his first restaurant, a sit-down full-service location called Carl's Drive-In Barbeque. As this grew wildly successful, he decided to open up a chain of smaller restaurants called Carl's, with more limited menus. In 1954, the chain was renamed Carl's Jr. and the fast-food chain took off.The parent company, CKE Restaurants, Inc., purchased the Hardee's chain in 1997, and is slowly amalgamating the two chains.In 2012, Nation's Restaurant News rated Carl's Jr. as the #37 foodservice chain in the United States based on sales through 2011. Hardee's was listed at #28. If the two chains sales were combined, they would have been at #15. In 2013, QSR listed Carl's Jr. at #24 and Hardee's at #20; if combined they would have been listed at #14.".