LIMITED POWER OF ATTORNEY

    KNOWN ALL BY THESE
PRESENTS, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints Hilary
Burkemper, signing singly, the undersigned's true and lawful
attorney-in-fact to:

(1) Execute for and on behalf of the undersigned,
in the undersigned's capacity as an officer and/or director of CKE
Restaurants, Inc. (the "Company"), a Form 3, Statement of Beneficial
Ownership of Securities, a Form 4, Statement of Changes in Beneficial
Ownership of Securities, or a Form 5, Annual Statement of Changes in
Beneficial Ownership, in accoradance with Section 16(a) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules thereunder;

(2) Do and perform any
and all acts for an on behalf of the undersigned which may be necessary or
desirable to complete and execute such Form 3 or Form 4 or Form 5 report(s)
and to timely file such Form(s) with the United States Securities and
Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority; and


(3) Take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the
foregoing which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit
to, in the best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it
being understood that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on
behalf of the undersigned pusuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in
such form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such
attorney-in-fact may approve in such attorney-in-fact's discretion.


The undersigned hereby grants to such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever
requisite, necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the
rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as
the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of
substitution or revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such
attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes,
shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this Power of Attorney
and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that
the foregoing attorney-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request
of the undersigned, is not assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of
the undersigned's responsibility to comply with Section 16 of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

This Power of Attorney shall remain
in full force and effect until revoked by the undersigned in a signed
writing delivered to the foregoing attorney-in-fact.

IN WITNESS
WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be executed
this 21st day of November 2003.


									   /s/ Theodore Abajian

						Signature


[Acknowledged in the presence of a notary public]




STATE OF CALIFORNIA

COUNTY OF SANTA BARBARA




	On November 21, 2003, before me, D Sorich, the undersigned
Notary Public, personally appeared Theodore Abajian, personally known to
me, or proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence, to be the person
whose name is subscribed to the within instrument and acknowledged to me
that he executed the same in his authority capacity, and that by his
signature on the instrument the person, or the entity upon behalf of which
the person acted, executed the instrument.

WITNESS my hand and offical
seal.



									  /s/ D Sorich

						Notary Public



									   September 16, 2005

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