Like many of the businesses I have written posts about, it came to me as a surprise that Wendy’s was in fact a Christian business. Wendy’s was founded the year 1969 in Columbus Ohio by Dave Thomas, who was first inspired to start his own restaurant when he was 8 years old. Admittedly, Wendy’s is not quite as commercially successful as Chick-Fi-La (very few chains are). Despite this the fast food chain still does it’s best to implement Christian principles into the very essence of it’s core. Wendy’s proudly shares it’s core values on their site, openly stating how it influences the way they do business. On the Wendy’s website, under the Core-Values page, they discuss in great detail how they aim to exhibit all the fruits of the spirit in their business.

Listed under their personal principles and expectations for themselves is to look for ways to give back to the community. One of the most successful ways Wendy’s has achieved this has been with the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption’s mission is to help find more homes for foster children. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption helps foster kids in both the United States and Canada. The Wendy’s corporation directly funds the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption with proceeds and have been running it since 1992. The Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption does everything they can to help ease the issues and pains that the foster system has, focusing on how they can do the most for the children in it. One of the things I love about these posts is that I get to discover new businesses with Christian principles every time I write a post. The funny thig being that more often than not, the businesses I thought I was familiar with, like Hobby Lobby and Wendy’s, surprise me with their Christian values. With every business that surprises me that way, I am presented all the more reason to give them my business.