22 More Laid Off at Karcher Enterprises Corporate Office

Carl Karcher Enterprises, owner of the Carl’s Jr. fast-food chain, has laid off 22 employees at its corporate headquarters in Anaheim, representing at least the second job reduction this year.

The layoffs, which took effect Monday, represent about 6% of Karcher’s remaining corporate staff, according to a prepared statement from the company. The figures indicate that there are about 360 corporate staff employees--down from 500 in January, when Karcher announced that 35 corporate employees were being laid off. Company officials could not be reached to explain what happened to about 100 other employees who were on the corporate staff in January.

Karcher Enterprises--owner, operator or franchiser of 461 Carl’s Jr. restaurants--saw its net income for the 1986 fiscal year ended Jan. 31 fall 57% to $5 million from $11.6 million. Revenues fell 2.4% to $327 million from $335 million in the same period.

The company’s stock, which sold at a peak of $45 per share in October, 1983, closed Tuesday at $15.375 per share.

Besides the layoffs, the company has shuffled management twice in the last 16 months and has sold all 15 of its stores in San Antonio, Tex., to Burger King Corp.

The company, which employs more than 14,000 people throughout its chain, is concentrating on its core market in the West and on remodeling its restaurants “while de-emphasizing in-house support services,” Don Karcher, the company’s president, said in a prepared statement.