By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News By Paul D. Colford, Daily News, New York Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
The death last Friday of Wilber Hardee, 89, founder of the Hardee's chain of burger joints, prompted Gawker.com to take note of the oddly large number of recent deaths of really, really old fast-food moguls. To wit: JR Simplot, 99, died in May. He invented the processed...