Which company owns hungry jacks

Simplifying the name to Burger King, the fast food restaurant created its flagship burger, the Whopper, in Today Burger King has 17, locations around the world. You can walk into a Burger King anywhere and be assured of getting the Whopper — as you know it — the way you want it:. When Burger King got to Australia in , it discovered there was already a local restaurant there called Burger King. So the local Burger King franchisee — who was Canadian, by the way — chose to go with the name Hungry Jack's instead.

And when you walked into a Hungry Jack's restaurant, it was virtually identical to Burger King locations in every way — except name. Over the years, Hungry Jack's tried to purchase the trademark from the local Burger King, but failed. Then, in the mids, the Burger King trademark in Australia expired. Burger King's international head office immediately opened up dozens of locations in Australia.

There was just one problem. The company couldn't use the BK name because it was already trademarked. Mr Cowin chose Hungry Jack, a pancake-mix brand name owned by then-parent company Pillsbury, adding the apostrophe and the 's' to make it sound cosier. Mr Cowin bought the franchise and opened his first store in Innaloo, a suburb of Perth, on the 18 April The entrepreneur's ensuing success has echoes of the tale of McDonald's franchisee Ray Kroc, a former milkshake salesman whose dizzying rise to riches 30 years earlier was chronicled in recent Weinstein Brothers twisted epic The Founder.

In , it entered Victoria by buying up and converting 11 struggling Wendy's restaurants. Mr Cowin was now a big fish, and Burger King was starting to get uncomfortable. By the time the nineties began, the cracks in the relationship had begun to show.

Hungry Jack's was the company's largest franchisee outside the States and was expanding amid ongoing disputes. During the late s, there were around 80 Burger King outlets in Australia as the US parent tried to reclaim the territory and name, once the Adelaide trademark had expired. Eventually, after much legal wrangling, Cowin prevailed but he chose to keep the unique Australian name.

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