Rank: 9
Total Units: 11283
Industry: Food: Restaurants
Year established: 1954
Year franchising: 1961
Country: United States of America
Total Countries: 69
Website: www.burgerking.com
Description: Burger King was number four on our Top 500 Franchises in 2005. It has franchised since 1957 after it opened its first restaurant in Miami in 1954. It now has more than 11,800 restaurants worldwide.
The burger franchise was named “Advertiser of the Decade” by Adweek in 2008, as well as being the second largest fast food hamburger chain in the world. Every day, over 11 million people visit a Burger King restaurant somewhere in the world.
Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING® restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations, Ad Week named it one of the top three industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades and it was recently recognized by Interbrand on its top 100 Best Global Brands list.
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