The parent company of Carl’s Jr., which was originally headquartered in Anaheim, is now leaving the city for good. CKE Restaurants Holdings will move the local operations to its new home base in Franklin, Tenn., where it switched its headquarters two years ago, the Orange County Register reported. The paper reported an unidentified employee who said the switch would be finalized by January and that most of the remaining 60 or so Anaheim jobs are being outsourced to India or the Philippines, though the company neither confirmed nor denied the timing and job relocations.
— Hannah Mitchell
Taco Bell’s Thailand franchisee plans to open its first location in Bangkok by early next year, local news reports said. Thoresen Thai Agencies Public Co., Thailand’s Pizza Hut franchisee, started hiring employees for the restaurant in a mall along the elevated Bangkok Mass Transit System. Irvine-based Taco Bell has said it wants to vastly expand overseas under International President Liz Williams, and has begun working in India, Brazil, Spain and other countries with large, well-capitalized organizations as franchisees. Thoresen Thai Chief Executive Chalermchai Mahagitsiri told a Thai website that Taco Bell will succeed “because the strong flavors meet the palate of Asian people.”
— Paul Hughes
