In Seoul, the Big Mac has to compete with Burger King's Whopper, Lotte Burger (a local rival) and South Korean alternatives.
Monday's appropriation of Burger King's Twitter account was a relatively mild example of cybersecurity problems, which are causing increasing concern in Washington and for industry.
After the incident, a credit-card company shut down Burger Me's account and put a hold on thousands of dollars in incoming payments, says Rich Griffith, its former owner.
Supersizing a meal at McDonald's, Burger King or Kentucky Fried Chicken costs a consumer only 67 cents out of pocket.
She points out that even global brands such as Starbucks, which recently opened its first branches in India, have had to adapt for Indian customers, serving up a tikka panini, while McDonald's offers a McAloo Tikki burger.
The bulk of a burger's cost depends on local inputs such as rent and wages, which tend to be lower in poor countries.
McDonald's new Made-For-You marketing is a shameless ripoff of Burger King's Have-It-Your-Way promotion.
Way back in 1962, the company's first president, Harry Sonneborn, talked Ray Kroc into buying a Chicago burger palace called Hottinger's.
After years of playing second griddle to Iron Chef Michael Symon, the Food Network star finally netted a victory in the South Beach Wine and Food Festival's build-a-better-burger competition.
"I think it's a positive thing that Burger King is moving out, " he said.
As a teen, she worked at a Wendy's burger joint and paid for college by teaching aerobics, piling up credit-card debt and getting loans and grants.
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Arby's, Chili's, Denny's, McDonald's, IHOP and Burger King are within a five-minute drive.
Roughly 92% of Burger King's units already are franchised, a figure that takes into account one large refranchising deal completed last month.
Peltz merged his holding company, Triarc, with burger chain Wendy's in 2008 and remains a major shareholder and chairman of the group.
One such conservative told me my bacon and Parmesan burger is really a sausage patty because it's made with pork.
Adding to Starbucks' woes, and further emphasising its similarity with McDonald's, the burger chain is about to launch a direct attack of its own.
So, will U.S. burger-flippers be able to run to a dealership anytime soon and roll home in a brand-new Tata?
That's why a local, grass-fed burger shouldn't be a guilty indulgence.
While the desire to pair humor with a commercial message has a long history in advertising-- Burger King's creepy King character and Bud Light's "Real Men of Genius" being sterling examples--the PR industry has demonstrated a sluggish embrace of yucks as a vehicle to deliver a message about companies, brands or issues.
To cook them, a worker tosses frozen patties onto a grill with a top steel plate that lowers to exactly the burger's height.
When every publication with a food critic named the burger at the original Father's Office in Santa Monica the best in America (and by extension, the world), it became impossible to get in.
The appeal-hearing decision means Burger will be free to return to action in South Africa's final Pool A game against the USA on 30 September.
The new results correlate well with Milgram's: 70 percent of the 40 participants were willing to continue after 150 volts, compared with 82.5 percent in Milgram's study -- a difference that is not statistically significant, Burger said.
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In this bastion of mass consumerism, where a meal can easily cost the equivalent of an average day's wages, some parents can be seen watching their children gobble a burger while they eat nothing.
Turnover at McDonald's has sunk every month since late last year as a result of sliding burger sales.
At Yum Brands' three main chains, U.S. average same-store sales growth softened last year after the first quarter. (They rose an estimated 2% for the year.) In a move that can be seen as desperate, McDonald's and Burger King keep extending those 99-cent add-ons in an attempt to boost sales.
McDonald's said it could introduce the baguette burger again if the initial six-week run is a success.
Burger King is a no-show in Brazil, where there are now 700 McDonald's.
Somebody hacked Burger King's Twitter account on Monday, posting obscene messages and changing its profile picture to a McDonald's logo.
Sales rose 5.8% at the restaurant chain's European outlets in 2006, boosted by the UK launch of a new bacon burger and a prize game in Germany.
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