The fast-food chain Hardee’s is coming back to Connecticut after more than 20 years, its parent company announced.
Over the next 18 months, Hardee’s will open restaurants in New Jersey and New York before turning northward to Massachusetts and Connecticut, it said, though it didn’t specify where.
The chain hopes to open 200 locations in the next five years, with a final goal of 1,000.
Hardee’s used to have locations in the Northeast, but closed them in the 1980s to Roy Rogers. In 1997, Hardee’s was acquired by CKE Restaurants Holdings Inc. of Carpinteria, Calif.
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The Northeast re-expansion will be led by franchisee Bhupen “Bob” Patel.