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Dave’s Triple

    Three square patties and three slices of cheese under the same fresh toppings. This is where the burger stops being about balance and starts being about sheer size. It is a lot of beef, and the lettuce and tomato do their best to pretend otherwise. Best shared, or ordered on a day you have skipped lunch.

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    The story

    Wendy’s opened in 1969 offering the same burger in one, two and three patties, which was unusual at a time when rivals sold one size and gave anything bigger a different name. The logic was Dave Thomas’s: the patty is thin and square, so stacking is the natural way to scale it, and the customer picks the size rather than the marketing department. The triple is the end of that line, and it stayed on the menu even as the singles and doubles were renamed around it.

    What’s inside

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    There is no copycat of the Dave’s Triple yet. Until there is, these recipes on the site come closest to it, judged by what goes into the bun.

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    About Wendy's

    • United States
    • Since 1969
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    Dave Thomas opened the first Wendy’s in Columbus, Ohio, in November 1969 and named it after his daughter Melinda, whose childhood nickname was Wendy. His big idea was that fast food did not have to mean frozen and flavourless, and his most visible idea was the square patty: the corners stick out past the round bun so you can see the beef, and the company still repeats his line that Wendy’s does not cut corners.

    Around 7,000 restaurants, most of them in the United States, and a growing presence in the UK.

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