Before his death, Wendy's founder Dave Thomas apologized to his daughter Wendy Thomas Morse for naming his burger chain after her. TOimages - stock.adobe.com

Just like Wendy’s burgers, she thought she’d be treated like a square.

Having a multinational food corporation named after you might sound like anyone’s dream. However, Wendy Thomas Morse felt that being the face of her father’s burger franchise was so “awkward” that she kept her mascot status a secret from others.

“I mean, there were times I didn’t want people to know because I didn’t want them to have assumptions,” the 64-year-old fast food scion told PEOPLE . “I guess my assumption was that they wouldn’t think I was cool or hip or whatever at the time.”

Morse was eight years old when her father, Dave Thomas, decided to name

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