(FranchisePick.Com Franchise Blog) Monsters & Critics reports the rather bizarre genesis of the Burger King product placement in the movie Iron Man.
One might think this is a bogus story to justify a paid product placement, except for the fact that Downey describes the Burger King burger as so “disgusting” it inspired him to […]
(FranchisePick.com) On the heels of the embarrassing allegations of dirty tricks that led to the firing of two senior BK executives (See: Blogger Kings Caught Telling Whoppers), Burger King Corporation and The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) recently announced plans to work together to improve wages and working conditions for the farmworkers who harvest tomatoes […]
(FranchisePick.Com) What a drag it is getting videotaped… You can’t make this stuff up: An armed drag queen climbed through the drive-thru window of a New Orleans Burger King, robbed it, then escaped through the same window. While they didn’t catch her (him?), they did capture the whole thing on videotape.
According to a report on […]
(FranchisePick.Com) Corporate blogging shills and sock puppeteers take heed: In the blogosphere, honesty is the best policy.
Just ask former Burger King VP Steve Grover and former spokesman Keva Silversmith, who were recently fired for “sock puppetry”: online shill posting of pro-company comments under a fake identity. In the BK case, the two also indulged […]
Will 300 Burger Kings in China Lead to Global Annihilation & the End of Mankind?
No way! The Chinese will only be allowed to work there, not eat there.
Absolutely! The weight of 1 million+ increasingly obese Chinese will throw off the Earth’s orbit & send us careening into the sun.
Quite the opposite! The weight […]
(FranchisePick.Com) While there are only 12 BK’s in China currently, Reuters reports that US fast food giant Burger King has announced plans to open several hundred restaurants over the next three years. About About 90 percent of the Burger King outlets in China will be franchised and 10 percent will be corporately owned.
Burger […]
(FranchisePick.Com) A bitter & costly battle with NY franchise owners forces Burger King to disclose its secret retail strategy: Give away the food, screw’m on the Coke.
Siblings Luan & Elizabeth Sadik have been operating Burger Kings for more than a decade, but haven’t turned a profit since 2001. They claim that BK’s 99-cent […]
(FranchisePick) Fast food franchise giant Burger King has hired Mobliss to create mobile phone games that include the company’s mascot, The King. The games, which will be promoted in-store, are part of Burger King’s efforts to move past ad placement to more branded, progressive content.
According to ClickZ:
Mobile game and content provider Mobliss has been […]
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