Wendy's Fingers Bigger Reward

Wendy's (WEN Quote) doubled its reward for information about how a human finger wound up in a bowl of its chili.

The company said it will pay $100,000 to the first person offering "verifiable information into the origin of the foreign object found in a bowl of chili" last month at a Wendy's in San Jose, Calif. Wendy's, the Dublin, Ohio, hamburger chain, offered $50,000 last week for info on the case, which has been widely publicized and has hurt sales in Northern California.

"Our brand reputation has been affected nationally," President Tom Mueller said in a postclose press release Friday. "We are determined to find out what really happened in this incident." ...