BurgerKing
| 2:00PM 4/04/2012
Burger King is dusting off its crown and going public again. The world's No. 2 hamburger chain, which is in the midst of overhauling its menu and stores, says it expects to relist its shares on the New York Stock Exchange within the next three months.
| 10:30AM 4/02/2012
When Burger King set about to fix its ailing empire, the fast food giant started by scrutinizing everything on the menu -- even the mayonnaise.
| 1:30PM 8/19/2011
It's no longer good to be the King. In a bid to stay within striking distance of rival McDonald's (MCD), Burger King (BKC) has given its plastic King ad mascot the royal flush. Going forward, the nation's No. 2 fast food chain is featuring commercials that highlight fresh ingredients to signify a...
| 2:00PM 2/18/2010
It was too good to be true.
Fast food giant Burger King is planning to bump the price of its $1 double cheeseburger -- a cost that had franchise owners up in arms -- by 19 cents in April. In its place, the company will remove a 5-cent slice of cheese and offer hungry customers a sandwich with two...
| 7:00AM 2/17/2010
Have you ever been ordering a Whopper and suddenly get a craving for a hot mocha coffee? Now you can have both! Burger King and Seattle's Best Coffee, a subsidy of Starbucks, are joining up to sell coffee in around 7,250 Burger King restaurants across the United States by September 2010. The...
| 1:45PM 1/22/2010
Burger King, having saturated the kid's market with its many trinket giveaways, is now taking the first step toward bringing a fun house mentality to its adult customers by serving up suds with its Whoppers.
In Miami Beach, the chain will open a new version of its Whopper Bar concept next month,...
| 3:30PM 1/04/2010
The New York Times reports that one of the main suppliers of processed beef filler to fast food restaurants like McDonald's and Burger King -- not to mention school lunch and grocery store meat -- had been using ammonia as a means of killing E. coli O157:H7 and salmonella.
Yes. Ammonia.
Years...
| 12:00PM 12/10/2009
There's some good news for fast food lovers.
With a tight economy forcing consumers to eat at home instead of going out, fast food chains are slashing their prices to keep cash registers ringing. And the slashing trend should continue in 2010, according to USA Today.
McDonald's is rolling out a...
| 2:00PM 11/11/2009
Consumers are notoriously fickle in their allegiances and interests -- remember those food-assembly kitchens that were all the rage a few years ago? But the recession has sobered buying habits, and increasingly, more companies are viewing Americans' recent conversion to thrift as a long-term trend,...
| 3:45PM 10/29/2009
Would you eat chicken imported from China? Overwhelmingly, 96% of WalletPop readers say they wouldn't touch the stuff.
Now that a 2004 ban on chicken imported from China has been lifted, it could be awfully tempting for some of America's favorite fast-food chains to buy the cheap meat. We asked...