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Burger King says Russian operator ‘refused’ to close hundreds of restaurants
washingtonpost.com/ ^ | Aaron Gregg

Posted on 03/18/2022 11:50:41 AM PDT by BenLurkin

The operator of hundreds of Burger King locations in Russia has “refused” to close them down, stymying the restaurant operator’s attempts to leave the country.

Restaurant Brands International, the Toronto-based entity behind Burger King, Tim Horton’s, and other fast food chains, owns just 15 percent of Russia’s Burger King joint venture. The rest is controlled by a group of investors led by Alexander Kolobov, a Russian businessman who is responsible for day-to-day management of the roughly 800 Burger King locations there.

RBI international president David Shear said in a letter to employees Thursday that the company had contacted Kolobov to demand that all Russian Burger Kings cease operations, and Kolobov refused. It has proved difficult to withdraw from the complicated web of business agreements the company established there 10 years ago, he said.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, meanwhile, has vowed to nationalize businesses that try to pull out of the country. And many corporations are stuck there because of complicated legal agreements that put local control of individual stores in the hands of Russians.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: burgerking; fastfood; mcdonalds; philsokolof; russia
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To: BobL

Dead drop, LOL... “About the beef tallow, makes a much better fry”. Be sure to encrypt it.


61 posted on 03/18/2022 1:09:21 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: Lazamataz

So you got her to rescind the restraining order?


62 posted on 03/18/2022 1:12:24 PM PDT by mouse_35
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To: DesertRhino

How’s Arabic for the encryption:

“حول الشحم البقري ، يجعل قلي أفضل بكثير”

Not even Arabs can read that.


63 posted on 03/18/2022 1:13:49 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: Hot Tabasco
Franken oil.

Bet he kicked off faster...

64 posted on 03/18/2022 1:15:00 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: BobL

I don’t want to live in a world where a burger griddle in Russia can be disabled by Palo Alto through a back door.

“Drop the bomb, kill them all...”

Colonel Kurtz


65 posted on 03/18/2022 1:15:29 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
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To: DesertRhino

“I don’t want to live in a world where a burger griddle in Russia can be disabled by Palo Alto through a back door.”

Neither do I, but we likely already live in a country where are farm tractors can be disabled by a keystroke in Palo Alto or DC.


66 posted on 03/18/2022 1:17:29 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: blackdog

I wonder how pickled beets work on a hamburger?


67 posted on 03/18/2022 1:17:48 PM PDT by FarCenter
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To: BobL

I’m ready to believe you!


68 posted on 03/18/2022 1:24:31 PM PDT by Lazamataz (The forces of fascism and oppression are on the move in North America. We cannot let tyranny stand!)
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To: FarCenter

I love them. Pile them on. Funny how taste changes with age and experience.


69 posted on 03/18/2022 1:28:30 PM PDT by blackdog (Today's "disinformation" most often turns out to be tomorrow's facts. )
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To: DesertRhino
How? They are buying the ingredients locally. They have no ability to shut them down if the local government won’t play ball.

That is partially true, the franchise owners do pay for the ingredients from local suppliers.

But who pays for the advertising? Not the franchisee....

Who supplies the franchisee with all the McDonald's labeled packaging in every burger, fries or delivery bag? Not the local supplier....

And once the Corporation shuts them down, if they want to stay in business they're going to have to change their business name to Ivan's Burgers.......

So how is that going to work out when you are now on your own without any support from the US based corporation?

Give it up dude.......

70 posted on 03/18/2022 1:32:36 PM PDT by Hot Tabasco
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To: skeeter

Why close them ? Just continue operating them and if push comes to shove just change the name to Burger Queen and continue to serve the same stuff which most likely is produced locally anyway and forget about the “Guidance” via US which collects the royalties for using the name.


71 posted on 03/18/2022 1:34:26 PM PDT by saintgermaine (Saintgermain the time traveler)
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To: DesertRhino; Lazamataz
Psssst - Charlotte McKinney is free, and lookin' for a man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM3_0pHpoas

Be careful what you wish for, though...  winking face face with tears of joy face with tears of joy

72 posted on 03/18/2022 1:37:09 PM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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When this is over I hope the Russian people remember all the companies that punished them for the actions of their government and refuse to do business with them.

When a company turned their back on Rush he never allowed them to return.

73 posted on 03/18/2022 1:44:46 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: BenLurkin

I watched a couple of YouTube videos last night where people were inline to get their last McDonald’s dinner. It really makes you realize how insane it is. Not that McDonald’s is worth eating but still.


74 posted on 03/18/2022 1:49:52 PM PDT by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped)
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To: NorseViking

I remember seeing Colonel Sanders face large on the famous Arbat Street in Moscow. I never ate at that one but I did eat at the TGI Fridays in Moscow. The quality control was very good.


75 posted on 03/18/2022 1:57:06 PM PDT by Monterrosa-24 (To the barricades !!!)
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To: NorseViking

I n his address on Wednesday, Putin said Russia will respect private ownership of foreign firms. Earlier, he voiced support of another idea – to introduce external management, so foreign firms could be run by partners in Russia.

The Ministry of Economy is developing a bill to regulate the procedure.


76 posted on 03/18/2022 2:03:04 PM PDT by caww ( )
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To: yesthatjallen

“When a company turned their back on Rush he never allowed them to return.”

What’s your Sleep Number?

I think he mentioned them by name, as they screamed the loudest, but he never, ever, let them back. And the thing was, the HUGE boycotts against them consisted of 10 people in someone’s garage using bots to look like a million people. Rush traced it, showed it to the companies, but some, like Sleep Number, responded: “We just don’t want any trouble”.

After that crap, no company ever tried that stunt again.


77 posted on 03/18/2022 2:13:04 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BenLurkin
Those franchise owners did nothing wrong and Burger King's virtue whining doesn't allow Burger King to change the contract.

If a korporation could change the contract on a woke, virtue whining whim, they'd do it all the time.

Just because the bastardized courts allow it in marriage contracts doesn't mean korporations can do it as well.

78 posted on 03/18/2022 2:14:00 PM PDT by T.B. Yoits
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To: Georgia Girl 2

“I watched a couple of YouTube videos last night where people were inline to get their last McDonald’s dinner. It really makes you realize how insane it is.”

Not from the viewpoint of the Deep State/Soros/DNC bunch. They really need to get rid of Putin and his entire structure there, and it won’t be as easy as Ukraine, as they’re wise to them. In Ukraine, all it took was busing in some of the Azov’s and having them light up an otherwise peaceful protest. Once the claims were made that the government was shooting peaceful protesters for sport, it was mission accomplished.

With Russia, the same bunch doesn’t have the infrastructure or access to a paramilitary group ready to light things up, which is why there was large anti-war rallies there, but without any violence (arrests, yes, but no shootings).

So, on to Plan B, which is to crash civilian morale by taking away icons like McDonald’s and Burger King, along with crashing the economy.


79 posted on 03/18/2022 2:24:36 PM PDT by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart, I just don't tell anyone.)
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To: BenLurkin

Closing restaurants isn’t a very good punishment Doesn’t hurt putin at all.


80 posted on 03/18/2022 2:38:40 PM PDT by I want the USA back (Government is to be feared much more than the chicom virus.)
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