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Exhibit
23.1
CONSENT
OF INDEPENDENT REGISTERED PUBLIC ACCOUNTING FIRM
The Board
of Directors
CKE
Restaurants, Inc.:
We
consent to the incorporation by reference in the registration statements on Form
S-3 (No. 333-111284), on Form S-4 (No. 333-75880), and on Form S-8 (Nos.
333-126681, 333-104957, 333-83666, 333-76884, 333-41266, 333-83601, 333-12399,
002-86142-01, 033-31190-01, 033-53089-01, 033-56313, 033-55337, 333-144225,
333-157699 and 333-160599) of CKE Restaurants, Inc., of our reports dated March
24, 2010, with respect to the consolidated balance sheets of CKE Restaurants,
Inc. and subsidiaries as of January 31, 2010 and 2009, and the related
consolidated statements of income, stockholders' equity, and cash flows for each
of the years in the three-year period ended January 31, 2010, and the
effectiveness of internal control over financial reporting as of January 31,
2010, which reports appear in the January 31, 2010, annual report on Form 10-K
of CKE Restaurants, Inc.
Our
report on the consolidated financial statements refers to changes in the
Company’s method of accounting for uncertainties in income taxes in fiscal 2008
and in its method of presenting earnings per share in fiscal 2010 due to the
adoption of new accounting pronouncements.
/s/ KPMG
LLP
Irvine,
California
March 24,
2010