Quote Originally Posted by nightflier
Well here's another reason you could boycott Carl's Jr.: over the years there have been numerous allegations of racism, sexist and homophobia against Carl Karcher, the founder, who "has an exceptionally long history of funding and/or sitting on the boards of anti-choice, homophobic and racist organizations." Apparently this culture permeated the company and there have been numerous successful lawsuits by employees against higher-level management. He's retired now, but some of his comments and actions were such an embarrassment to the company that they made every effort to distance themselves from him towards the end, and I think it was in 1993 that they fired him.
Where I live we don't have CARL JR's, so therefore I have never seen the commercial, until this: