Burger King
 Logo since December 21, 2020 | |
| Company type | Subsidiary |
|---|---|
| Industry | Restaurants |
| Genre | Fast food restaurant |
| Predecessor | Insta-Burger King |
| Founded | Insta-Burger King: 1953 Jacksonville, Florida Burger King: 1954 Miami, Florida |
| Founder | Insta-Burger King: Keith J. Kramer and Matthew Burns Burger King: David Edgerton and James McLamore |
| Headquarters | 5505 Blue Lagoon Drive, Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States |
Number of locations | 17,796 (2018) |
Area served | Global |
Key people | |
| Products | |
| Revenue | 1,970,000,000 United States dollar (2012)  |
| 117,700,001 United States dollar (2012) | |
| Parent | Restaurant Brands International |
| Website | www |
| Footnotes / references [2][3] | |
Burger King (often just called BK) is a American chain of fast food restaurants that comes from the United States.[4] It sells hamburgers, French fries, and soft drinks. It was created in 1954 in Miami, Florida, by James McLamore and David Edgerton.[5] Edgerton bought a restaurant named Insta Burger King and changed it to Burger King. More than 34 thousand people work for the company.
There are more than 18,000 Burger King restaurants world-wide in 100 countries, and almost all of them are franchises.[6] But in Australia, since the name "Burger King" was already trademarked there, BK franchises there are called Hungry Jack's.
Burger King is owned mostly by 3G Capital, a Brazilian investment company. But it is also owned by shareholders and used to publicly trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the ticker BKW.[7] In 2014, the chain's operations was merged with that of Tim Hortons from Canada, under the name Restaurant Brands International (NYSE: QSR).[8] Burger King is an American global chain of hamburger fast food restaurants. Headquartered in the unincorporated area of Miami-Dade County, Florida, the company was founded in 1953 as Insta-Burger King, a Jacksonville, Florida–based restaurant chain.
References
[change | change source]- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Burger King 2015 10-K". sec.gov. Retrieved 12 April 2019.
- ↑ "RBI 10K report" (PDF). rbi.com. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 18, 2019. Retrieved April 1, 2019.
- ↑ "Restaurant Brand International: Burger King". rbi.com. Retrieved April 1, 2019.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ "hamburger.com". www.hamburger.com. Archived from the original on 2018-04-18. Retrieved 2018-04-13.
- ↑ Hershey, Robert D. (April 16, 2018). "David Edgerton, a Founder of Burger King, Is Dead at 90". The New York Times. Retrieved July 16, 2020.
- ↑ "Number of Burger King restaurants worldwide from 2009 to 2017". Statista. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ "Burger King Worldwide, Inc. Announces Close of Transaction with Justice Holdings Limited". Business Wire. 20 June 2012. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
- ↑ Brownell, Claire (26 August 2014). "Burger King Worldwide Inc announces deal to buy Tim Hortons". Financial Post. Retrieved 13 April 2018.
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