Canada has been and continues to be a big part of BURGER KING® success. Due to the close proximity to the City of Detroit, Windsor and the spill of U.S. advertising into the market, Windsor, Ontario was chosen to become the first “Home of the Whopper” In Canada. The first Canadian BURGER KING® opened on Tecumseh Road in Windsor, Ontario in 1969 and the first franchised restaurant opened in Kingston in November 1976. We have grown today to over 300 BURGER KING® restaurants throughout every province of which 173 are franchised. Since 1998, BURGER KING® has experienced tremendous growth with over 120 BURGER KING® restaurants being opened in Canada.Canada has also been a strong innovator for the BURGER KING® brand by introducing menu items such as Poutine and the great tasting flame broiled BK VEGGIE® Canada has also been an innovator in restaurant design with its now familiar 30’ high tower structure, which usually houses a two story children’s playground.
Burger King Restaurants of Canada Inc. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Burger King Corporation. Burger King Holdings, Inc. is the parent company of Burger King Corporation. ABOUT BURGER KING HOLDINGS, INC.The BURGER KING® system operates more than 11,800 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING® restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations and Ad Week named it one of the top three industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades. To learn more about Burger King Corp., please visit the company's Web site at www.bk.com.
ABOUT BURGER KING HOLDINGS, INC.
The BURGER KING® system operates more than 11,800 restaurants in all 50 states and in 74 countries and U.S. territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING® restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. In 2008, Fortune magazine ranked Burger King Corp. among America's 1,000 largest corporations and Ad Week named it one of the top three industry-changing advertisers within the last three decades. To learn more about Burger King Corp., please visit the company's Web site at www.bk.com
