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  • Is "Burger King" About to Bite It ?

    From c186282@21:1/5 to All on Thu Apr 17 17:46:38 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.food

    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/yourmoney/article-14618287/burger-king-closures-franchisee-bankruptcy-locations.html

    Burger King fans in Florida and Georgia could soon see more
    locations shutter, as one of the fast food chain’s major
    franchisees has filed for bankruptcy.

    Consolidated Burger Holdings, which operated 75 restaurants
    across the two states, quietly closed nearly 20 locations
    before filing for Chapter 11 protection last week.

    That brings its total store count down to 57 — and more
    closures could be on the way as it looks to cut costs
    during bankruptcy.

    The filing comes after other major Burger King franchisees,
    including TOMS King and Meridian Restaurants, also filed
    for bankruptcy in the last two years.

    Consolidated says it still plans to upgrade and remodel
    some restaurants, but it’s also looking to sell off
    assets through a court-supervised sale.

    . . .

    BK hasn't been as smart as its rivals alas.

    Awhile back they spent a fortune "updating the
    look" of the places - but NOT the food. Their
    items got smaller and smaller and the burgers
    tasted more and more of burnt hockey pucks.

    The last things I ever bought there were the
    fish sandwiches - and then even the fish got
    smaller to the point of not being worth it.

    McD at least kept the food semi-edible and
    Wendy's did that even better.

    So ... if the corp goes under it's THEIR fault,
    not 'inflation', not Trump, it's the QUALITY
    they didn't bother to maintain.

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  • From c186282@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Fri Apr 18 01:00:26 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.food

    On 4/17/25 10:44 PM, Governor Swill wrote:
    On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:46:38 -0400, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

    So ... if the corp goes under it's THEIR fault,
    not 'inflation', not Trump, it's the QUALITY
    they didn't bother to maintain.

    Agreed. BK's food used to be much better. More and fresher toppings
    in your whopper, hot sizzling burgers. Fast food doesn't work with
    big menus. KISS

    Agree.

    Kinda rare between me and ye huh ? :-)

    BK burgers became just awful - even the bigger ones.
    The fries ain't great either. Onion rings ... so-so.
    McD fries are still the best, but Wendy's burgers
    and chik are better.

    Anyway, I can't/won't eat that kind of food anymore.
    What a drag it is getting old ........

    There ARE some newer start-ups competing with the
    old fast-food spectrum that, so far, get good
    reviews. Not nearly so MANY however - not two or
    three in every town.

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Fri Apr 18 07:23:33 2025
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    Governor Swill wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    On Thu, 17 Apr 2025 17:46:38 -0400, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

    So ... if the corp goes under it's THEIR fault,
    not 'inflation', not Trump, it's the QUALITY
    they didn't bother to maintain.

    Agreed. BK's food used to be much better. More and fresher toppings
    in your whopper, hot sizzling burgers. Fast food doesn't work with
    big menus. KISS

    I haven't had a Whopper in a long time. I'd pay a dime or two for extra tomato and extra onion. I had an Impossible Whopper once; not bad!

    Sometimes the smell coming from a Burger King is mouth-watering. Other times
    it smells like a burning candle.

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    One entrusted by A with the secrets of B, confided to himself by C.
    -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"

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  • From Chris Ahlstrom@21:1/5 to Governor Swill on Fri Apr 18 07:25:46 2025
    XPost: alt.politics.usa, alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.food

    Governor Swill wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

    On Fri, 18 Apr 2025 01:00:26 -0400, c186282 <[email protected]> wrote:

    <snip>

    Mom wanted Hardee's for lunch today. Drive thru, lunch for two,
    thirty bucks. Three blocks later we had cold, pale, soggy fries, limp lettuce in the chicken wraps and a barely warm burger with cold bacon.

    Thirty bucks.

    Biden! :-D

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    Continent, a part of the maine; if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea,
    Europe is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as well as if
    a Mannor of thy friends or of thine owne were; any mans death diminishes
    me, because I am involved in Mankinde; And therefore never send to know
    for whom the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
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