A fast food restaurant franchise with two locations in North Central Washington has announced it is closing hundreds of locations nationwide in the months ahead.

Dublin, Ohio-based Wendy's says it will close around 300 of its 6,011 U.S. restaurants due to declining sales and general financial underperformance.

CBS News reports the company's interim CEO, Ken Cook, recently told investors that the closures would begin before the end of the year and continue into 2026.

Wendy's is among several big-name fast food restaurants that have seen a drop in revenues over the past few years due to lower-income consumers being increasingly priced out of their offerings by rising food costs.

The announcement of Wendy's latest round of closures comes in the wake of its shuttering of 240 locations acro

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