By now, everyone in Columbus knows that Wendy’s was acquired by Nelson Peltz, CEO of Atlanta based Triarc Companies. Dave Thomas founded Wendy’s in 1969 here in Columbus where his original store remained open until March of 2007.
The sale of the company marks the loss of a local institution and the end of an era in Columbus. It also has the folks in Dublin a bit nervous about their jobs.
When a company as large as Wendy’s falters, there may be many reasons why and it helps to be an insider to know for sure. But as an outsider, I would guess that among the things that contributed to Wendy’s losing control of its company were the deaths of key executives–notably Dave Thomas–and a french fry problem.
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While trolling the Internet for information about neighborhoods and real estate, my wife stumbled upon this little bit of information.
I don’t know if your children use “my space”, but there is a New Albany page that may give you and your children some insight. The school monitors the pages (I think?), anyway we monitor our daughters page and apparently many teens use these pages to talk to other kids when their families may be moving.
We are moving to California this summer and my daughter and I used “my space” to reach out to the student population at her prospective high school. As with any high school, the children seem to divide people up into groups or cliques, but I don’t know that it’s possible to avoid that anywhere, but thankfully those groups are not “the have’s and the have nots” and are not based on race or or religious affiliation. It tends to be more divided based on interests and extracurricular activities.
I remember when I had to move to a new school. It was a difficult experience. Trying to meet people who wouldn’t beat you up was hard enough, much less finding friends.
Many parents move into a home when their children are school age and don’t think about moving to another school district until their kids graduate from high school or college for fear of destabilizing their children’s social connections.
Could family mobility increase as a result of kids being able to find peer groups through a social networking site before they have to relocate physically?
Food for thought.
-Allen
