With there sophisticated direction, their prices have risen.

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Hardees took that route a few years ago: improving their decor, shifting toward a more premium product, and naturally, raising their prices. It was devastating for their business model. Hardees is a shell of its former self. For example, there used to be at least a half-dozen Hardees in a town as little as La Crosse; now there is only one.

It will be interesting to see how long McDonalds' can pull off the new look. Maybe they have a better marketing crew than Hardees had.

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Hardees? I never see them. Didn't know they still existed. Like Bob's Big Boy, I'd be surprised if they still existed.

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Carl's Jr it might be called in your area.

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As yes. There are tons of them here. I forgot that they're owned by the same parent company.

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lots of them in IL.

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We still have a McDowell's Big Boy. Pizza burgers flying style & chicken with fries and gravy. You can feel your arteries hardening. We still have a Hardees too.

Anybody still have A&W's. That drive up diner was classic America - but it's pretty much over now.

I don't get the McDonalds health makeover, that's not where I'm going to eat healthy - ever!

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There's a few A&W's here.. Most of them are connected with either a KFC or a Long John Silvers. I love me all three of them fast food joints.

And Hardee's is pretty slim 'round these parts.. There's one in Mora (hour north of the TC), and one in Anoka (a northern suburb), but that's all I know of. It sucks because I miss those heart-attack burgers (Monster Burger w/ double cheese and bacon).

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That is because they're all owned by Yum! Brands, along with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell. We have one A&W and one KFC in our entire area, though they are not co-located. We have no Long John Silver's -- and I have never heard of WingStreet, Pasta Bravo, or East Dawning, the brands that round out Yum!'s portfolio.

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Wing Street is Yum's attempt to take a Pizza Hut and at least partially turn it into a Buffalo Wild Wings. My daughter worked at an area PH when the edict came down from on high. Most of them are Corp owned and not local independent franchises.

I think the plan was to be both PH and BWW in one. Just as you see LJS. KFC and TB combined in some manner.

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