{"id":12655,"date":"2017-05-31T06:00:04","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/premierfoodsafety_OLD\/?p=12655"},"modified":"2017-05-31T06:00:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T13:00:04","slug":"the-immeasurable-legacy-of-dave-thomas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/the-immeasurable-legacy-of-dave-thomas\/","title":{"rendered":"The Immeasurable Legacy of Dave Thomas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"richsummary\">\n<p id=\"abstract\">Dave Thomas was a humble man who considered himself to simply be a hamburger cook.  However, he was much more than that to many people.  The Wendy&#8217;s founder also made sure that bringing awareness to the plight of foster children was on his to-do list.  AS an adoptee himself, this mission was particularly close to his heart.  He took the same care in developing his corporation that he did with his philanthropic missions &#8212; subtle but eager to be successful.<\/p>\n<p id=\"takeawayheader\">Key Takeaways:<\/p>\n<ul id=\"takeaways\">\n<li id=\"takeaway1\">Dave Thomas and Wendy&#8217;s changed how fast food treated quality.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway2\">Dave Thomas helped to erase the stigma surrounding adoption and making it more socially acceptable.<\/li>\n<li id=\"takeaway3\">Wendy&#8217;s Wonderful Kids is a new initiative that targets moving the children that have been in foster care the longest into permanent homes.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p id=\"quote\">&#8220;Through a commitment to quality and Thomas\u2019s ever-present guiding hand, Wendy\u2019s had quickly caught up to the more established competitors.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"readmoretext\">Read more: <\/span><a id=\"source\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/competition\/immeasurable-legacy-dave-thomas\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/competition\/immeasurable-legacy-dave-thomas<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"task_trail\" style=\"display:none\">(abstract 3SU800BH86SVXELL69HDE23GRX7QUZ 3VBEN272MKZQSWXW4AM3T7DAWP1SG4 A1FZ3BW8I5T2YD)(authorquote 3DWNFENNE3VFUTNTWD6M4XT0EQYJ4N 374TNBHA8BVE173J6CJ4575DJXCYQP A1DCGB72N1UIPT)(keypoints 3THR0FZ95PTPTCLBIIX8YACXZBALOI 339ANSOTR52604QJPPD4NXZGVP3KIT AH7PYE40HM7TW)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dave Thomas was a humble man who considered himself to simply be a hamburger cook. However, he was much more than that to many people. The Wendy&#8217;s founder also made sure that bringing awareness to the plight of foster children was on his to-do list. AS an adoptee himself, this mission was particularly close to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8139,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12655"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12655\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/premierfoodsafety.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}