Why You Won’t Recognize Burger King

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Why You Won’t Recognize Burger King

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Across America’s landscape, several fast-food retailer brands are visible enough that they are almost part of that landscape. Among them were McDonald’s, Starbucks and … Burger King. One reason they were recognizable is that their logos remained essentially the same for decades. Their store configurations have as well. In the case of Burger King, this will no longer be true.
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The company will change the way many of its stores look. Management believes this will “refresh” the brand. However, sometimes taking away something old and familiar does not work.
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According to CNN, Tom Curtis, president of Burger King US & Canada, said people will “start to see something different in 2024.” (See 25 of the biggest product flops of the past decade.)

There may be a reason for this. Burger King is no longer king. Its store count trails well below Subways, Starbucks and KFC. Pizza Hut and Domino’s are about the same size. The field is so crowded that there is very little chance to catch its largest competition.
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Another challenge for the company is that the value of its competition is much larger. The parent company, Restaurant Brands International, has a market cap of $29 billion. McDonald’s is $183 billion, and Starbucks has a $106 billion market cap. It is another measure by which Burger King will not catch its competition.

It will take much more than changing the look of its stores to turn things around.

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About the Author Douglas A. McIntyre →

Douglas A. McIntyre is the co-founder, chief executive officer and editor in chief of 24/7 Wall St. and 24/7 Tempo. He has held these jobs since 2006.

McIntyre has written thousands of articles for 24/7 Wall St. He is an expert on corporate finance, the automotive industry, media companies and international finance. He has edited articles on national demographics, sports, personal income and travel.

His work has been quoted or mentioned in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, NBC News, Time, The New Yorker, HuffPost USA Today, Business Insider, Yahoo, AOL, MarketWatch, The Atlantic, Bloomberg, New York Post, Chicago Tribune, Forbes, The Guardian and many other major publications. McIntyre has been a guest on CNBC, the BBC and television and radio stations across the country.

A magna cum laude graduate of Harvard College, McIntyre also was president of The Harvard Advocate. Founded in 1866, the Advocate is the oldest college publication in the United States.

TheStreet.com, Comps.com and Edgar Online are some of the public companies for which McIntyre served on the board of directors. He was a Vicinity Corporation board member when the company was sold to Microsoft in 2002. He served on the audit committees of some of these companies.

McIntyre has been the CEO of FutureSource, a provider of trading terminals and news to commodities and futures traders. He was president of Switchboard, the online phone directory company. He served as chairman and CEO of On2 Technologies, the video compression company that provided video compression software for Adobe’s Flash. Google bought On2 in 2009.

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