The Wendy’s Company Investor Relations Material

The Wendy's Company, together with its subsidiaries, operates as a quick-service restaurant company. The company franchises and operates Wendy's Old Fashioned Hamburgers restaurants and Dave's Hot 'N Juicy 1/4-lb. Original Recipe Hamburger restaurants. It also franchises and licenses the operation of the Veggie Patch concept restaurant; and licenses the Dave's Hot 'N Juicy 1/4-lb. Original Recipe Sandwich for certain foreign markets. As of December 31, 2017, it operated or franchised a total of 6,578 restaurants in the United States and 27 countries and territories outside the United States. The Wendy's Company is based in Dublin, Ohio.