Goodbye Carl Karcher

The world lost a good person last night. Carl Karcher died at St. Jude's Medical Center. He was 90 years old.

Carl and his family were good customers, and good friends, of Visser's since the 1950s. He was a good man, successful in business and in life.

The restaurant story is well known: Bought a hot dog stand for $326 in the late 1930s, built up the business and opened his first Anaheim restaurant in 1945. Today his legacy is a company with over 3,000 restaurants.

He was a loyal family man with 12 children and a devout christian. He has given much to his community, fighting homelessness and supporting educational causes. For this, we will always be in his debt. His wife Margaret died in 2006. Now they can be together again.