March 25, 2026
Although many U.S.-based chain restaurants have locations overseas, there are no Wendy’s in the European Union. The fast-food giant cannot get into the market because the “Wendy’s” trademark in the EU belongs to a Dutch businessman who started a mom-and-pop eatery named Wendy’s Fish & Chips in 1988.
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An easy group dinner or a tasty midnight snack, pizza is a staple in the U.S. Americans love pizza so much that they eat 100 acres of pizza a day. (If you don’t measure your pizza consumption in acres, that’s about 350 slices of pizza per second!) Did you ever wonder how this Italian flatbread—now
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