All Burger King articles – Page 22
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News
NY fast food employees in pay protest
Employees at a significant number of quick-service restaurants around New York City staged a protest yesterday, calling for higher wages and the ability to unionise.Organizers of the one-day strike — called “Fast Food Forward,” claimed that hundreds of quick-service employees had joined the protest, setting up pickets in front of ...
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Opinion
University challenge
Inside Track by Mark WingettYoung people are important. Not for the purposes of this article in a “we are the world, we are the future” kind of way, but on an economic level. They are key to numerous markets, whether that is fashion and technology or eating and drinking out.Without ...
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Coffee and fast food boosts Euro Garages
Euro Garages, the Blackburn-based forecourt operator, has reported an 8% rise in full-year EBITDA to £13m driven by a strong performance across its Starbucks, Subway and Burger King franchises.The group said that turnover for the year to the end of July climbed 3% to £314m, with sales across its Starbucks, ...
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Weekend Press
Weekend press round-up, 17-18 November
Financial results and company newsEnterprise Inns profits fallPoor weather and Olympic disruption are expected to have caused a 13% to 14% fall in pre-tax profits for Enterprise Inns, when the pub group announces its full-year results on Tuesday. Sales in the year to September 2012 were down on the previous ...
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Customer satisfaction on the rise
Customer satisfaction with restaurants in the United Kingdom is on an upswing, with limited-service restaurants achieving an all-time high score for customer satisfaction, with 76 points out of 100 during the second quarter of the year, according to the latest National Customer Satisfaction Index (NCSI).The report found that full-service restaurants’ ...
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Food-on-the-go driving eating-out market
Quality food-on-the-go has become the key growth area in the UK’s eating out market with concepts consistently emerging in transport hubs and shopping centres as well as high streets locations, as consumers increasingly eat when they want, where they want, according to leading foodservice consultancy HorizonsThe group’s the latest Ones ...
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BK to remodel UK estate
Burger King will remodel all of its c.500 UK and Ireland restaurants over the next couple of years, after recently relaunching its Leicester Square site.The new-look restaurant features digital menu boards, digital screens above the entrance and a dedicated BK Café area.At the same time, the burger chain has appointed ...
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Fast food operators dominate franchise growth
Fast-food operators, including McDonald’s, KFC and Subway, dominated the top 10 in terms of worldwide sales in the latest international franchises list produced by the Franchise Times.The 12th annual publication of the list placed McDonald’s first with $77.3bn worldwide sales, with KFC in 3rd with $19.4bn sales, Subway 4th ($15.2bn) ...