Burger King
April 28th, 2008 at 2:29 pm (Uncategorized, Health, Food)
Usually when it concerns favorite restaurant people have a huge range of answers. It depends on many things: the quality and taste of food, customer service, premises and place where the restaurant is located. But all this is relative and subjective because tastes differ. But sometimes you really need to know more or to have some advice in order to visit a new place. But what if this is not a new place but good old American fast food restaurant chain, which one would you personally choose? Maybe it will be Burger King?
About the company. Burger King is worldwide chain of hamburger fast food restaurants that was founded by James McLamore and David Edgerton in 1954 in suburban Miami, Florida. The company specializes in fast food offering hamburgers, French fries, milkshakes, various salads. The Whopper is Burger King’s signature hamburger. Net income of the company is $ 148 million. There are 37,000 employees in Burger King. There are Burger King fast food restaurants in 65 countries across the globe. The company is the second largest chain of hamburger fast food restaurants in the whole world and has more that 11,200 locations. Burger King is considered to be a socially responsible corporation.
About fast food. The fast food has become a part of our modern life and it makes no sense to deny it. All the truthful surveys of the scientists that state that fast food is very dangerous and shortens our life do not stay in our memory for a long time. Everything has become very fast: the rhythm, the pace, the relationships, the thoughts and finally, the food. And if the results of such a nutrition do not appear that fast, we just refuse to believe or just to remember them. It is easy and comfortable to have some snack on you way somewhere and it does not take much time. That is why we still go to such places as Burger King.
Brothers McDonald introduced this “Speedee Service System” that is the basis of all fast food industry nowadays. There are 31,000 locations of Burger King inside the US and 20,000 more across the world. It is surely expanding. Burger King specializes in selling different burgers, French fries, breakfast items, beverages, desserts. There is a restaurant in every developed country and it is a symbol of the expansion of the American culture all over the world.