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Some of fast food’s splashiest plant-based chicken rollouts have seriously impressed us in the past. First, there was the debut of Impossible Chicken Nuggets in 2021, a product that managed to capture the brothy flavor of real cooked poultry and deliver both crunch and chew without tasting springy or spongy. (Burger King tested these nuggets at various locations last fall.) Then, KFC released Beyond Fried Chicken in January 2022; these were essentially nuggets as well, and tasted “pretty spectacular,” according to our taste test. Both of these, however, were small-format chick’n products. The Impossible Original Chick’n Sandwich at Burger King...

Just shortly after the news that one in three Burger King burgers sold in Belgium is meat-free, and in some locations even one in two, BK reveals that from now on, almost the entire Burger King range, including the popular classics, will be served on a plant-based basis in Austria. The fast-food giant has already demonstrated what the future could look like in an experiment in a restaurant in Vienna’s Margaretengürtel, where plant-based products became the new normal. Those who ordered without expressing a special request for “meat” received a veggie burger. And those who wanted to eat the popular...

Mexico’s army and National Guard announced Thursday what they called a “historic” seizure of over a half-ton of fentanyl at a warehouse in the northern city of Culiacan...nearly 1,200 pounds...it is pressed into pills made to look like Xanax, Adderall or Oxycodone, or mixed into other drugs...Soldiers also found a half-ton of meth in the July 2 raid, as well as cocaine, opium and at least 70 tons of precursor chemicals.

"There's still barbecue stains that kinda look like blood." 😳It's not every day that you find an abandoned vintage Burger King hiding in not-so-plain sight. But that's exactly what happened to a group of people who made a peculiar discovery at the Concord Mall in Wilmington, Delaware. On June 28, Twitter user @RealJezebelley shared a photo of the retro space, which looks like it could have easily doubled as a restaurant set for your favorite '80s or '90s sitcom. The photo was taken in April of this year by Jonathon Pruitt and shows lots of pastel tabletops, retro decor, and...

The Austrian advertising agency behind Burger King Austria's Pride Whopper campaign has apologized following backlash on social media. On Saturday, agency Jung von Matt Donau posted an apology to its LinkedIn page, acknowledging that the agency did not engage with Austria's queer community enough before launching the Pride Whopper — burgers that feature either two sesame-seed top buns or two bottom buns rather than one of each — as part of Burger King Austria's Pride Month campaign. "Time to be proud," read the ad. "We've heard your voices and listened carefully," Jung von Matt Donau wrote on LinkedIn. "The Pride...

Burger King Austria is celebrating Pride Month by introducing the “Pride Whopper,” a hamburger that comes with either two top or two bottom buns. The new item uses mealtime to promote “equal love and equal rights,” a translation of the fast-food chain’s Austrian website said. We are setting an example for individuality and freedom and stand for a respectful interaction with each other,” the website translation says. “Equal rights. Empathy. Understanding. No matter where you come from, no matter who you love, no matter what you look like or what you believe in: Time to be proud.” The burger features...

He says he went into the restaurant and found nobody in the kitchen, and no customers in the building.If you've tried to order from a fast-food restaurant recently, you may have noticed a longer wait for service. A Pittsburgh's Action News 4 viewer shared a video of one local restaurant with not a single employee or customer inside. (Click the video player above to watch.) "Showed up to this Burger King on Noblestown Road, and there is nobody in here. Nobody in here. Went to the drive-through, nothing," he says in the video. In the video, Lazz Tantalo described his...

A petition against the campaign stated, ‘They’re mocking the Eucharist and the death of Christ in the most sacred time for Christians.’ MADRID (LifeSiteNews) – The Burger King fast-food chain has apologized to Spanish Catholics following a blasphemous Holy Week ad campaign that mocked Christ’s words at the Last Supper. “Take and eat all of it (Tomad y comed todos de él). It’s meat-free,” stated one of the two advertisements included in the controversial Holy Week campaign. They were meant to promote Burger King’s new range of vegetarian options, hoping to appeal particularly to Catholics who do not eat meat...

Burger King has been accused of deliberately using its ads to mislead customers as to the size of its burgers in a federal filing representing more than 100 patrons who say the fast-food giant's marketing practices constitute 'consumer fraud.' The class-action suit, filed Monday in US District Court in Miami, claims Burger King brass, through a rash of recent ads for some of its menu items, knowingly deceived customers with images of mammoth-sized menu items noticeably larger than their real-world counterparts. According to the 26-page filing, the fast-food firm 'overstated' several of its menu items - including the iconic Whopper...

The owner of Burger King has said the operator of its 800 stores in Russia has “refused” to close them, despite its demand to suspend trading after the invasion of Ukraine. Last week, Burger King, which is owned by Restaurant Brands International (RBI), said it had suspended all supply chain, operational and marketing support for the Russian operation. RBI has been unable to close the operations directly, as rivals such as McDonald’s have done, because of a complicated legal contract with its main franchisee partner, Alexander Kolobov, with whom it has run the joint venture in Russia for a decade....

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...

A teenager who was working the drive-thru at a Milwaukee Burger King when she was shot and killed in an apparent robbery may have staged the incident with her best friend and her best friend's father, court documents allege.

The man suspected of murdering a 19-year-old Burger King employee earlier this week ranted about social justice and demanded reparations as police officers escorted him out of an East Harlem police station. Winston Glynn, 30, is accused of murdering 19-year-old Burger King employee Kristal Bayron-Nieves during a robbery in the early hours of Sunday morning. As officers led Glynn out of the police station into a police vehicle, video captured Glynn shouting social justice slogans at an angry crowd who gathered outside the station. Winston Glynn was arrested by “The Greatest Detectives in the World” for the murder of a...

The family of a young woman gunned down at a Manhattan Burger King demanded justice Saturday as they thanked supporters at a makeshift memorial. Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, was killed during a robbery while working the night shift last week. Her mother, Kristie Nieves, 36, clutched a big teddy bear handed to her by a supporter. She came to the crime scene, walking distance from the family’s home, with a sister, brother-in-law and cousins. She began speaking to reporters and well-wishers but did not get far. “Thank you everyone and everyone who supported me including my family” she said, growing increasingly...

The man suspected of murdering a 19-year-old Burger King employee earlier this week ranted about social justice and demanded reparations as police officers escorted him out of an East Harlem police station. Winston Glynn, 30, is accused of murdering 19-year-old Burger King employee Kristal Bayron-Nieves during a robbery in the early hours of Sunday morning.

A teen girl was gunned down and killed during a robbery while working her shift at a Harlem Burger King - with the killer making off with only $100. Kristal Bayron-Nieves, 19, was working as a cashier at the Burger King at 116th Street and Lexington Avenue in East Harlem around early Sunday morning when an armed robber entered the restaurant at around 1am. The gunman pistol-whipped a male customer before punching a female manager in the face. Bayron-Nieves, who just started the job three weeks ago, gave the robber $100 cash from the drawer, an eyewitness said, according to...

When you’re looking for a new job, every little advantage over other candidates helps. But is your vaccination status now an advantage you should disclose during the screening or interview process? On one hand, being vaccinated isn’t a job skill; but on the other hand, being unvaccinated is a public health liability that can’t be shrugged off by employers. The unvaccinated are already at a disadvantage A Biden administration vaccine mandate for businesses with 100 or more employees is expected to drop in the next few weeks, but many larger companies like Google, Walmart, and United Airlines already imposed workplace-based...

JACKSON, MI – A sign at a Michigan Burger King restaurant encouraging people to honk if they’re against wearing masks and getting a COVID-19 vaccination is being investigated by the corporation. The sign in front of the building on East Michigan Avenue in Jackson displayed a message Aug. 5 that read, “Honk if you are against forced mask & forced jab.” “We’ve been in communication with the franchisee who is further investigating this incident,” a corporate Burger King spokesperson said in a statement. “Protecting the health and safety of team members and guests has been our top priority since the...

PITTSBURGH — Pittsburgh police responded to the Burger King in the Pittsburgh’s South Side Sunday night, saying workers allegedly walked out on the job. Police responded to the restaurant on East Carson Street and discovered it was unlocked with no employees inside. A city spokesperson says it appears the employees walked off the job. Police stayed until they could get ahold of someone to secure the building. However, Burger King employees reported that they were just too short staffed to operate so the manager closed up early... And forgot to lock the door behind him.

Tennessee police arrested two people accused of shooting up a Burger King after a dispute over a spicy chicken sandwich. Tavarus McKinney, 22, and Keona Halliburton, 20, reportedly got into a fight June 6 with employees at a Memphis Burger King after Halliburton complained that her sandwich had too much hot sauce on it. The pair left the restaurant, only to return a few minutes later and start shooting, injuring two people, according to FOX 13 Memphis. Four witnesses identified McKinney and Halliburton to police, and they were arrested Wednesday. McKinney’s background check reportedly revealed nine previous cases and 10...