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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc.

is in the Food Industry

Last Fiscal Year Sales:$187.1M

Private
US

Dow Jones Description

Wellspring is trying to win this game of Checkers. Founded in 1986 and headquartered in Tampa, FL, Checkers Drive-In Restaurants, Inc. develops, owns, operates, and franchises the country's largest chain of drive-through fast food restaurants. The company has about 800 restaurants in 20 US states, about 200 of them company-owned. They operate under the Checkers and Rally's Hamburgers brands, and typically have a A�double drive-through' format, allowing them to capitalize on the fact that most fast food sales come from drivers. It offers hamburgers, hot dogs, fries, soft drinks, and milkshakes. The company had 2005 revenue of about $187.2 million and employs about 4,000 people. In October 2005, the company's Rally's brand was named Best Drive-Thru in America 2005 by QSR Magazine, the leading trade publication for the quick service restaurant category.

President & CEO

Keith E. Sirois

Number of Employees 4,000

Contact Information

4300 W Cypress St Ste 600

Tampa, Florida 33607-4159

www.checkers.co...

1 813 283 7000

Peer Companies

NAICS Code Full-Service Restaurants: 722110

Recent Events

CheckersÂ®/Rally`sÂ® Selects McLane for Distribution

11/04/09 - Licensing / Contract - View Story

News & Analysis

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Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Plans to Merge with Rally's Chain.

- 1999-01-31

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 30 -- Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. will try a third time to merge with Rally's Hamburgers Inc. Checkers also will try to boost its flagging stock price through a reverse stock split. Each share of Rally's stock...

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Checkers' CEO Drives Double Successes: First Quarter Profits and Increased Same Store Sales

- 1998-05-01

CLEARWATER, Fla.--BUSINESS WIRE--May 1, 1998-- First quarterly profit since 1994 Citing his new management team's success in improving restaurant margins and sales, President and Chief Executive Officer Jay Gillespie announced a first quarterly profit since the...

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Rally's Checkers, CKE, FNF make executive changes

- 1997-10-20

LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- Executive office changeovers follow last month's stock-swap deal at Rally's Hamburgers Inc., Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc., CKE Restaurants Inc. and Fidelity National Financial Inc. Industry veteran James "Jay" Gillespie was named chief executive of Rally's and Checkers, replacing Checkers' chief executive, Tom Thompson, who remains...

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Checkers, Rally's Drive-Through Hamburger Chains to Merge.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)

- 1997-03-26

CLEARWATER, Fla.--Mar. 26--Checkers Drive-In Restaurants Inc. has agreed to merge with another chain of double-drive-through hamburger restaurants, Rally's Hamburgers Inc. The merger of Clearwater-based Checkers and Louisville, Ky.-based Rally's, both founded in the mid-1980s, is a combination of equals. As...

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California's CKE Restaurants Vows to Rescue Troubled Checkers Drive-Ins.(Originated from St. Petersburg Times, Fla.)

- 1996-12-10

Dec. 10--When Checkers Drive-In Restaurants went public in 1991, it was a small fry competing with the burger giants. The Clearwater company pledged low-cost burgers in a hurry from a no- frills drive-through. The idea was a hit, and the chain expanded...

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio)	Position
Keith E. Sirois	President & CEO
S. Patric Plumley	CFO & Treasurer
Todd Lindsey	Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Robert D. Wright	Executive Vice President, Company and Franchise Operations
Michael Arrowsmith	Senior Vice President of Development
Steven Cohen	Senior Vice President, HR
Adam Noyes	Vice President, Purchasing, Operations
Brian Doster	General Counsel, Vice President & Secretary
Richard Turer	Vice President, Marketing
Ron Levondosky	Vice President, Franchise
David Crawford	Director, Marketing
Kim Francis	Director, Communications
Gloria Valdes	Manager, Risk Management
Jean Kelly	Coordinator, Marketing

Board of Directors

Name (plus bio)	Position
Peter C. O'Hara	Chairman
Burt Sugarman	Board of Directors
David Gotterer	Board of Directors
Gary Lieberthal	Board of Directors
Terry N. Christensen	Board of Directors
Willie D. Davis	Board of Directors

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