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Company type | Subsidiary |
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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 15,000 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.