FRANKLIN, Tenn. — CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc., the parent company of Carl's Jr.® and Hardee's®, announces the appointment of Joe Guith as its new CEO, effective immediately.
Guith joins CKE with experience in franchising, restaurant management, and the expansion of consumer brands. Previously, he served as CEO of Church's Texas Chicken, where he successfully repositioned the brand and built stronger relationships with the franchisee community, leading to significant improvements in unit-level profitability, record sales, and traffic growth, the company notes, adding that these changes led to expanding the Church's Texas Chicken footprint to more than 1. . .