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Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd. is an Australian fast food franchise of the Burger King Corporation. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of Competitive Foods Australia (with licensing from Restaurant Brands International), a privately held company owned by Jack Cowin.
Hungry Jack's is the exclusive Australian master franchisee of Burger King Corporation. Competitive Foods Australia owns over 400 Hungry Jack's stores. [1] When Burger King decided to expand its operations into Australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a man running a small takeaway food shop in Adelaide. Thus ...
Cowin brought KFC to Australia, founded and owns Hungry Jack's, which is the Burger King franchise in Australia, [1] and has at various stages controlled the Domino's Pizza franchise in Australia prior to its 2005 listing on the ASX.
Hungry Jack's won the case, [164] [165] [166] and Burger King eventually left the country. [167] Hungry Jack's took ownership of the former Burger King locations and subsequently renamed the remaining Burger King locations as Hungry Jack's. [161] [168] As of June 2019, Burger King had 83 stores operating in New Zealand. [169]
After losing a lawsuit filed against it by Hungry Jack's ownership, the company ceded the territory to its franchisee. [23] Hungry Jack's is now the only Burger King brand in Australia; Cowin's company Hungry Jack's PTY is the master franchise and thus is now responsible for overseeing the operations in Australia, with Burger King only ...
Burger King Corporation v Hungry Jack's [1] (2001) 69 NSWLR 558 was an Australian court case decided in the New South Wales Court of Appeal on 21 June 2001, concerning a dispute between United States–based fast food chain Burger King, and its Australian franchisee Hungry Jack's.
This is a list of notable restaurant chains in Australia. A restaurant chain is a set of related restaurants with the same name in many different locations that are either under shared corporate ownership (e.g., McDonald's in the U.S.) or franchising agreements.
The company was based in Balcatta, Western Australia and employed 6,956 people. As owner of Red Rooster and Chicken Treat it was the joint fifth largest fast food operator in Australia after McDonald's, KFC, Hungry Jack's and Subway, with 450 outlets. [1]