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Default Carl’s Jr. Headquarters Leaves California for Texas

Carl's Jr. started here in Anaheim, Ca about three blocks from Disneyland. The company will no longer be adding new Carl's Jrs here in Calif because it's too expensive. Saying it takes close to two years of paperwork to start building whereas it takes six weeks in Texas. Yup, the libs here are killing business, it should make them proud.



Carl’s Jr. Headquarters Leaves California for Texas
As the CEO joins the “conga-line” of jobs and businesses leaving California, let’s say adios to the headquarters of Carl’s Junior, the Mexi/burger chain.
And who could blame them for taking 500 highly-paid taxpaying big-dog salaries out of state that hates on meat and dotes on tofu so much?
Look how Texas just rolled out the welcome mat for a California company (again.) Jerry Brown has been so busy worrying about how to force a big tax increase on California,did he even NOTICE that he’s chasing away yet one more company? Does he care?
Via Allison Wollam at Houston Business Journal:
Carl’s Jr. may be packing up its California headquarters and moving to the more “business friendly” Lone Star State.
I caught up this week with Andrew Puzder, CEO of CKE Restaurants, Inc., the parent company of Carl’s Jr., on his last day of a tour throughout Texas.
Puzder said he was approached by the state to consider moving his company to Texas and said he met with Gov. Rick Perry during his trip to discuss a possible move.
“I’m always looking to do the best thing for the company,” he said. “If there are compelling business reasons to relocate the company, we would be silly not to do it.”
He said Houston, San Antonio and Dallas would be his top choices if he chose to relocate the company (sorry, Austin).
“If we decided to move, Houston would definitely be a market that we’d consider, based on the success that we’ve already had here,” he said.
The headquarter move would bring about 500 new jobs to Texas, said Puzder.
I gave Puzder a call while he was visiting the first Houston-area store and he was downright giddy about the response Houstonians have given the burger chain.
“People in Houston love their meat, and I think they’re really enjoying the quality of our food,” he said. “Can’t you hear all of the happy customers in the background?”
The first local store, at 8491 Highway 6 N. at West Road, set a company record in domestic and international sales during the store’s opening week on Jan. 14. Sales topped $117,000, beating the $115,536-sale mark made at the Leon Valley, Texas, restaurant in November 2009.
Puzder is planning to build on that success while the concept is gaining notoriety in the local market. He said plans call for at least 30 company- and franchisee-owned restaurants in the Houston market over the next three years and for 300 locations in Texas in the next 10 years.
500 new corporate jobs in Texas with executives who will need houses and cars and clothes and STUFF……so do you think Houston or Texas will be giving Carl’s any Californeee/eco-whiny/feminazi crap about:
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