Photo: Hardee'sFamous Star with Cheese
The burger Hardee’s shares with Carl’s Jr. A charbroiled patty with cheese, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickles and special sauce on a sesame bun. It is the chain’s everyday burger, lighter than a Thickburger and a better bet if you want a classic fast-food cheeseburger with a bit of grill flavour.
The story
This burger is on the menu because of a takeover. CKE Restaurants, which owns Carl’s Jr., bought Hardee’s in 1997 and spent the following years moving Californian items onto Southern menus, the Star line included. The two chains still share a star logo, several burgers and an open charbroiler, while keeping separate names and separate personalities — Hardee’s the family restaurant with the scratch-made biscuits, Carl’s Jr. the one that ran the provocative adverts.
What’s inside
Make it at home
There is no copycat of the Famous Star with Cheese yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.
- Shares beef, a special sauce and cheese
McDonald's Big Mac (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese Deluxe (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McDonald's McFeast (Copycat) - Shares beef and cheese
McDLT
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About Hardee's
Wilber Hardee opened his first restaurant in Greenville, North Carolina, in 1960, and Hardee’s became a Southern institution largely thanks to something it started making in 1977: biscuits made from scratch every morning. In 1997 it was bought by the company behind Carl’s Jr., so the two chains share a star logo and several burgers, but Hardee’s has kept its own, more family-friendly personality.
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