{"id":9886,"date":"2006-10-16T06:33:31","date_gmt":"2006-10-16T13:33:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/2006\/10\/16\/the-case-of-the-disappearing-wendys.html"},"modified":"2006-10-16T06:33:31","modified_gmt":"2006-10-16T13:33:31","slug":"the_case_of_the_disappear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2006\/10\/16\/the_case_of_the_disappear.html","title":{"rendered":"The Case of the Disappearing Wendy&#8217;s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Driving on errands on Friday and &#8230; poof.  The Wendy&#8217;s at County Line and Quebec was gone.<\/p>\n<p>Well, not gone-gone  But, like magic, all the signage was removed, and all the windows shuttered up.  And not cheap 4&#215;8 plywood kind of shuttered, but very nicely sealed with painted external wood paneling,  Very elegant, almost like it had rolled big security shutters across all its windows.<\/p>\n<p>Then, a few minutes later, we saw that another Wendy&#8217;s on Yosemite was closed, in just the same way.  Though later that evening we saw another Wendy&#8217;s on Santa Fe open.<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbus.bizjournals.com\/columbus\/stories\/2006\/10\/09\/daily24.html\" target=\"_blank\">this article<\/a>, Wendy&#8217;s is closing &#8220;up to 40 company-owned restaurants over the next six months.&#8221;  Not sure if this is part of that or something different (that was the only item I could find via Google).  In either case, I have to complement Wendy&#8217;s on the very professional-looking shuttering of those two stores, and express my hopes that someone will open up something in the one we first<br \/>\nnoticed some time soon; it&#8217;s way too convenient a location for us (on our way to the freeway) for it to remain closed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Driving on errands on Friday and &#8230; poof. The Wendy&#8217;s at County Line and Quebec was gone. 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