Ukraine war: Burger King still open in Russia despite pledge to exit
Ukraine war: Burger King still open in Russia despite pledge to exit
The owner of the fast-food brand says there are "no new updates" on its pledge to leave Russia.
Restaurant Brands International owns Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeye's Chicken, and Firehouse Subs
Fuck RBI, they are lying war profiteers putting tax revenue in the hand of the Kremlin which it uses to fund it's war of genocide in Ukraine. Do not eat in any of their restaurants
Especially with firehouse subs having such a purpose washed image/mission, you think they'd be smarter.
War profiteer is an interesting way to look at it. If a company doesn't cut ties with warmonger countries, they are war profiteers ?
They should also get away from US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of the "developed" countries that are historically exploiting poor countries ?
They sell fucking burguers, if they manage to not put too much garbage in the food to save money, they are doing enough.
Are you also telling us how much they own of those Burger King franchises in Russia they are supposed to shut down?
They are getting paid 100% of the franchise fees of their Russian businesses.
You don’t own franchise partners by definition. They are individually owned restaurants that pay you a fee to use your brand (name, menu, marketing, etc.).
„Shutting down“ here means: Don’t renew these franchise contracts. The restaurants will continue to exist, but they will have to rebrand and be less lucrative.
I thought burger king staying was the punishment
Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.
Don't like it, don't go there. Tell them why.
Personally I'm boycotting them. Not because of any moral justification, but because they sell overpriced disappointing mulch.
Literally worst fast food joint and the only people I've met who claim otherwise have objectively bad taste.
Like no joke, objectively, "I love a butter and cheese sandwich on wonderbread", British, wouldn't know flavor if it ripped their tongue out.
And yet they invented the sticky toffee pudding. Two extremes
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Have some lemme.ee gold friend
Fucking savage 😂
Absolutely brilliant description.
Say anything remotely negative about Dictatorship 1 and Dictatorship 2, and they come scrambling out of the woodwork with a long rant full of lies, stupidity, and revisionism and a couple of those cringe ass, unnecessarily large emojis to go with it. Honestly sick of them. Individual instance filtering can’t come fast enough.
Yuuuuup.
That's one way to defeat Russia. Have them eat garbage food.
Slow news day I assume?
No news means good news. Maybe that's just me being pessimistic tho.
AFAIK, the situation with Burger King, is that unlike McDonalds, BK doesn't have much leverage over Russian franchisee's. They can try and say "close the stores, we're leaving", but the actual store owners would just say "no" and re-brand them back to "Rostik's". They don't really have any assets in Russia so there's nothing really to sell either, but they do still receive the franchise fees. So pulling out would only benefit Russia
Rostik's is actually what KFC was, and the funny thing about it is KFC has the similar franchise structure in Russia, they officially left, told all franchisees to change names back to Rostik's, but the biggest one just said "no" even to that, as KFC's contract that includes the rights to use the name expires only in 2035.
Burger King will never see a single cent from me, fucking traitors
Extend that to all companies and capitalism is over party.
Good.
I simply don't get this mentality. I'm sure you do realize, that companies such as Microsoft still operate in Russia. You think all people over there are running Linux? Aside from how unbelievably stupid your take is, guess they are traitors too. But you'll still keep using their OS and Office suite for millenia to come.
My condolences to the Russians.
Спасибо за поддержку. Мы стараемся держаться и попытаемся пережить это неописуемое горе.
They're making too much money. Corporations are not beholden to nations, silly Americans.
On all the shorts etc showing sanction life in Russia, not one has mentioned burger King is still there.
Can Burger King pull out of the US first? Absolutely the worst fast food chain ever. The only reason anybody goes to BK is if McDonald's is on fire.
Personally I prefer Burger King over McDonald's. Haven't been since the first BK opened in my city.
This is the best summary I could come up with:
David Shear, RBI's president, said in March 2022 that Burger King's main operator in Russia had "refused" to shut the outlets following the first attacks on Ukraine.
Steven Tian, part of a team of researchers at Yale University who track what companies have done in response to the Ukraine war, argued using franchise agreements as an "excuse" was a "convenient smokescreen".
Mark Dixon, founder of the Moral Rating Agency, which campaigns against firms doing business in Russia, called for RBI to disclose what specific actions it had taken in its attempts to leave.
David Bond, partner at law firm Fieldfisher, said RBI's 15% stake meant it could not simply "dictate terms" to its fellow shareholders to require them to close Burger King branches.
He also suggested companies that franchise out their brands would be reluctant to simply walk away from deals as it could lead to "dire consequences", including being sued for breach of contract, as well as reputational damage.
But he said consequences aside, there was nothing stopping RBI from terminating the franchise arrangement if it was adamant it wanted to do so, though added it might not result in the Burger King brand ceasing to exist in Russia.
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I’ve already boycotted Burger King just for how aggressively bad their advertising song is.
I boycott burger king because it's disgusting
If BK food in the US is any indication of the quality in Russia, let them stay open. Worst of the worst as far as fast food goes. It's economic warfare with none of the war crimes! /s
Every time someone complains about hexbear they make their emojis 1 pixel bigger
Ukraine: Have it Russia's way.
Their burgers are trash compared to what they used to be - so fine - feed the Russians trash. About not keeping their word to leave Russia... does anyone here believe anything corporate has to say?
and even the taste remained the same - shit with sauce
let them eat that poison idgaf
I know the answer to my question, don't bother. But let's all try to come back to the really basic common sense. Burger king topic in a war news channel? For real?
Yo those chips look fresh
Who the fuck cares who is still open in Russia. Theres plenty of companiess still open in Israel where's the outrage over that?
You know you can care about multiple things at once, right?
OK?
So you say I should ignore all the injustice in the world just because I cannot care about all of them?
That's just stupid
why can't you care about all of them. Also how is burger king selling burgers injustice?
Ah, classic case of whataboutism. Go troll somewhere else.
Uhh you're on my server dummy
