Wilber Hardee
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| Born | August 15, 1918 |
| Died | June 20, 2008 (aged 89) |
| Resting place | Pinewood Memorial Park, Greenville, North Carolina, U.S. |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
Wilber Hardee (August 15, 1918 – June 20, 2008) was an American businessman who founded the American fast-food restaurant chain Hardee's, located mostly in the Midwest and Southeast regions.
Biography
[edit | edit source]Hardee was born in Martin County, North Carolina, on August 15, 1918. Raised on his family's farm, he eventually left the family business to become a musician and later a grill cook. Hardee joined the United States Navy during World War II, but upon his uncle's death, he returned to the United States. After returning he met and married Kathryn Roebuck in 1945.[1]
With his wife, he opened a series of restaurants and inns in North Carolina, including the Do Drop Inn, the Port Terminal Inn, and the Silo Restaurant. He studied the things that the public seemed to respond to the most at existing quick-serve restaurants at the time and an idea formed that would evolve into the first Hardee's restaurant concept. On September 3, 1960, he opened the first Hardee's location in Greenville, NC.[2]
Hardee died in his home town of Greenville, North Carolina, on June 20, 2008, and was cremated two days later.[1][2] His cremains are inurned in Greenville at Pinewood Memorial Park in the Floral Garden 4 Section.[3]
See also
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Wilber Hardee at Find a GraveLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- The Hardee's Story
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- 1918 births
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- CKE Restaurants
- American business executives in the food industry
- Fast-food chain founders
- People from Martin County, North Carolina
- 20th-century American businesspeople
- People from Greenville, North Carolina
- United States Navy personnel of World War II
- American business biography, 1910s birth stubs