25 Fascinating Facts About Fast Food Chains-- Part 2: A Burger King and Wendy By Any Other Name

7.  There's an Illinois mom and pop restaurant legally named "Burger King."  In Mattoon, Illinois.  Turned their Frigid Queen ice cream place into Burger King  1959 and received a trademark for it.  When the big Burger King expanded into the state  in 1961, a dispute arose.  The big Burger King is allowed to use the name elsewhere on the state, but not withing twenty miles of Mattoon.

8.  Burger King is also called "Hungry Jack's" in Australia.  The name Burger King had already been trademarked by a restaurant in Adelaide.

9.  Burger King grants celebrities exclusive  "Gold Cards" for free burgers.  Free burgers for life.  George Lucas and Jay Leno have them, but I don't!!  What Gives!!??

10.  Burger King sponsored a couple's wedding in 2015.  A man named Joel Burger was marrying a woman named Jane King.  I don't get it?

11.  Wendy's founder Dave Thomas was once a successful KFC restauranteur.

12. There is  a real Wendy.  Dave Thomas named his store after his red-haired, pig-tailed daughter Melinda Lou.  She had trouble pronouncing her name as a child, saying "Wenda."  This turned into "Wendy," and the rest is history.

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Love Them Whoppers.  --RoadBurg