After the successes of the s, management boldly set goals for the year 1, Carl's Jr. Unfortunately, the company would fall far short of these figures. Carl Karcher remained chairman and CEO. To reach their lofty goals, the Karchers needed to accelerate Carl's Jr.
The following year the Carl's Jr. That same year several locations began to offer hour service. In , Carl's Jr. In the mids, Carl's Jr. Earlier in the decade the chain had successfully introduced a Western Bacon Cheeseburger and a Charbroiler Chicken Sandwich.
Each came with a choice of baked potato, fried zucchini, or wedge-cut potatoes and garlic toast. The dinners were served on platters rather than paper plates, and customers were provided with silverware, not plastic utensils. Unfortunately, the charbroiler dinners created a host of problems: the need to install dishwashers, traffic backups at the drive-thrus thanks to the length of time it took to prepare the dinners, and general customer confusion over what Carl's Jr. In , the chain abandoned the dinners in another return to roots; restaurants signs which had read "Carl's Jr.
Restaurant" were changed back to "Carl's Jr. Charbroiled Hamburgers. Compounding the company's difficulty was the chain's expansion into Texas, which began in , just as the state economy was entering a prolonged depression.
Texas had been chosen as the first state in a national roll-out of the Carl's Jr. The three dozen units established there never came close to meeting sales expectations and by early Carl's Jr.
The company decided to limit the areas where it would build company-owned stores to California and Arizona and also converted a number of company-owned units to franchised units.
Over the next few years, national expansion was placed on the back burner; instead more than older Carl's Jr. Carl Karcher credited the turnaround in part to the hiring of Raymond Perry as vice-president of operations; Perry had more than 20 years of restaurant experience, including serving as president of Straw Hat Pizza. The Securities and Exchange Commission SEC filed a lawsuit against Carl Karcher in April alleging that in late he had tipped off relatives to an upcoming announcement that profits were expected to drop by half.
As if all these problems were not enough, the Carl's Jr. Carl Karcher was a dedicated conservative Republican and had served as the party's finance chairman for Orange County, one of the most conservative counties in the country. His support for right-wing Republican John Schmitz, who had tried in the s to ban homosexuals from teaching in public schools, came to the attention of gay rights groups. And Karcher's adamant opposition to abortion--a result of his devout Catholicism--led to demonstrations at Carl's Jr.
In opposition from gay and abortion rights groups led students at California State University, Northridge, to narrowly vote down the establishment of a Carl's Jr.
Meanwhile, Carl's Jr. In a license agreement was signed with the Friendly Corporation of Osaka, Japan, to develop at least 30 Carl's Jr. In a new joint venture agreement with MBf was signed and called for Carl's Jr. In October Carl Karcher Enterprises signed an agreement with a third licensee, Valores Matalicos, to expand the chain into Mexico.
The early s were marked by turbulence in the management ranks at Carl Karcher Enterprises. Perry had been considered an heir apparent to the aging Karcher, but was abruptly dismissed from his number three position in Then Don Karcher died of cancer the following year. Carl Karcher began to lose control of the company board at the same time he was experiencing personal financial difficulties. Karcher and Doyle clashed throughout , most notably over a Karcher proposal to test dual-branded restaurants featuring both Carl's Jr.
If approved by the board, Karcher's financial problems would have reportedly been solved. In August the board rejected the proposal, which led Karcher to threaten a proxy fight to oust certain board members. In October the board voted Karcher out as chairman for interfering with long-term management strategy, replacing him with long-time board member Elizabeth A.
Two months later Karcher was back on the board but with the more or less honorary title of chairman emeritus. To regain his seat and to solve his financial woes Karcher struck a deal with a partnership led by William P. Foley II, an entrepreneur who had built Fidelity National Title into the nation's fourth-largest title insurance company. The partnership then controlled about 25 percent of the stock, gaining Foley a seat on the board. When sales continued to drop during fiscal , Foley stepped in to challenge Doyle's leadership.
Also in the new board received shareholder approval for a new corporate structure, which created a new parent company called CKE Restaurants, Inc. Then in a further twist CKE decided early in to abandon the dual branding with Green Burrito and instead develop a dual concept with its own Mexican concept called Picante Grill.
Twenty-two of them were operating in fiscal and posted sales 25 percent sales higher than when the units were simply Carl's Jr. Remarkably, Foley and Thompson had turned the Carl's Jr. The defining move toward improvement came in mid when the chain abandoned value pricing and developed a new advertising campaign which emphasized quality and quantity through the slogan "If it doesn't get all over the place, it doesn't belong in your face.
With Carl's Jr. This stake was increased to 18 percent later in and CKE also began managing 28 Rally's in California and Arizona. The two companies also agreed not to compete against each other in the same markets--Rally's was primarily located in the southeastern United States--and Rally's borrowed Carl's Jr.
CKE quickly made Summit profitable again but just as quickly determined that it did not want to focus on family dining and so would likely divest most of these holdings and earn a profit in the process. The deal returned CKE not only to the Mexican food sector that the company abandoned when it gave up on Taco de Carlos but also to that nettlesome state of Texas, which was where Casa Bonita was headquartered and where it operated 67 Taco Bueno units.
CKE followed up by acquiring a 10 percent stake in the unit Checkers in February In April CKE helped to craft a proposed merger of Checkers and Rally's, which if consummated would combine the similar chains into a single system of nearly 1, units.
CKE's stock split 3-for-2 in January and the company announced an amendment to its dual-brand agreement with GB Foods whereby the original unit commitment was increased to a minimum of stores, with a minimum of 60 restaurants to be converted each year over a five-year span. But the company announced a real blockbuster in April when it said it would acquire Hardee's Food Systems Inc. Its U. CKE planned to test dual-branded Carl's Jr.
After a few years of Foley's leadership, CKE was barely recognizable as the same company. With the addition of the Hardee's brand, it was even questionable whether Carl's Jr. Future prospects appeared bright for this multi-brand giant, although somewhat difficult to predict given the dynamism of the mids.
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