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Peter Mark Robinson (born April 18, 1957 [1]) is an American author, research fellow, television host and former speechwriter for then-Vice President George H. W. Bush and President Ronald Reagan. He is currently the host of Uncommon Knowledge , an interview show by Stanford 's Hoover Institution .
David Russell Edgerton Jr. (May 26, 1927 – April 3, 2018) [1] was an American entrepreneur and co-founder of Burger King, in what would become the second-largest burger chain after McDonald's. [2] After serving as a manager of another restaurant, Howard Johnson's , on March 1, 1954, he opened a franchise outlet of the restaurant chain Insta ...
Burger King Holdings was the parent company of Burger King when it went public in 2002. [68] Burger King derived its income from several sources, including property rental and sales through company owned restaurants; [68] however, a substantial portion of its revenue was dependent on franchise fees. [68]
A man who was convicted of pointing a gun at Burger King drive-thru worker who wouldn’t accept drugs for payment and later shooting at other people elsewhere the same night has been sentenced to ...
2006: Burger King is listed on the NYSE with the stock symbol BKC when the chain goes public in an IPO. [5] 2009: Company opens its 12,000th store, located in Beijing. [95] 2010: Brazil-based 3G Capital acquires Burger King in a deal worth $3.26 bn/BRL$5.6 bn. [5] [96] 2011: Burger King begins a yearlong revamp of its menu and advertising ...
By 2001 and nearly eighteen years of stagnant growth, many of Burger King's franchises were in some sort of financial distress. The lack of growth severely impacted BKC's largest franchise, the nearly 400 store AmeriKing; by 2001 the company, which until this point had been struggling under a nearly $300 million debt load and been shedding store across the US, was forced to enter Chapter 11 ...
The Subservient Chicken is an advertising program created to promote international fast food restaurant chain Burger King's TenderCrisp chicken sandwich and their "Have it Your Way" campaign. Created for the Miami -based advertising firm Crispin Porter + Bogusky (CP+B) by The Barbarian Group , the program featured a viral marketing website ...
Also known in the United States and Canada as The First Cut, it was Robinson's first novel not to feature Inspector Alan Banks. Although seemingly unrelated to the Banks series, Caedmon's Song is revisited in Robinson's Inspector Alan Banks novel Friend of the Devil , wherein the story is brought together with that from an earlier Banks novel ...