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History

Main article: History of Burger King

The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville, Florida as Insta-Burger King. The original founders and owners, Kieth J. Kramer and his wife's uncle Matthew Burns, opened their first stores around a piece of equipment known as the Insta-Broiler. The Insta-Broiler oven proved so successful at cooking burgers, they required all of their franchises to carry the device. After the original company began to falter in 1959, it was purchased by the Miami, Florida franchisees James McLamore and David R. Edgerton who renamed the company Burger King. The duo ran the company as an independent entity for eight years, eventually expanding to over 250 location in the United States, when they sold it to the Pillsbury Company in 1967.

Under Pillsbury, the company underwent several attempts at reorganization or restructuring in the late 1970s and early 1980s. While these efforts were effective in the short term, many of them were eventually discarded resulting in Burger King falling into a fiscal slump that damaged financial performance of both Burger King and its parent. Poor operating performance and ineffectual leadership continued to bog the company down for many years, even after it was acquired in 1989 by the British alcoholic conglomerate Grand Metropolitan and its successor Diageo. Eventually, the institutional neglect of the brand by Diageo damaged the company to the point where major franchises were driven out of business and its total value was significantly decreased. Diageo eventually decided to divest itself of the money loosing chain and put the company up for sale in 2000.

In 2002, a troika of private equity firms led by TPG Capital, L.P with associates Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners agreed to purchase BK from Diageo for $1.5 billion (USD), with the sale becoming complete in December of that year. The new owners, through several new CEOs, have since moved to revitalize and reorganize the company, the first major move was to re-name the BK parent as Burger King Brands. The investment group initially planned to take BK public within the two years of the acquisition, however this action was delayed until 2006 due to several reasons. On 1 February 2006, it was announced that TPG planned to take Burger King public by issuing an Initial Public Offering (IPO). Between March 2004 and March 2009, the company experienced a score of consecutive profitable quarters that were credited with successfully re-energizing the company, however with the slowing of the economy during the financial crisis of 2007-2010 the company's business has declined while its immediate competitions, McDonald's, has grown.

Franchises

Main article: Burger King franchises

When Burger King Corporation began franchising in 1959, it relied on a regional franchising model where franchisees would purchase the right to open stores within a defined geographic region. These franchise agreements granted BKC very little oversight control over its franchisees and resulted in issues of product quality control, store image and design and operations procedures.

This model remained in place until 1978 when the company hired McDonald's executive Donald N. Smith to help revamp the company. Smith initiated a restructuring of all future franchising agreements, disallowing new owners from living more than one hour from their restaurants, preventing corporations from owning franchises and prohibiting franchisees from operating other chains. This new policy effectively limited the size of franchisees and prevented larger franchises from challenging Burger King Corporation as Chart House had. Smith also sought to have BKC be the primary owner of new locations and rent or lease the restaurants to its franchises. This policy would allow the company to take over the operations of failing stores or evict those owners who would not conform to the company guidelines and policies. However, by 1988 BKC parent Pillsbury had relaxed many of Smith's changes, scaled back on construction of new locations and stalling growth. Neglect of Burger King by new owner Grand Met, and its successor Diageo, further hurt the standing of the brand, causing yet more financial damage to BK franchises.

By 2001 and nearly eighteen years of stagnant growth, many of its franchises were in some sort of financial distress. The lack of growth severely impacted BKC's largest franchise, the nearly 400 store AmeriKing; by 2001 the company, which until this point had been struggling under a nearly $300 million debt load and been shedding store across the US, was forced to enter Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The failure of AmeriKing deeply affected the value of the BKC, and put negotiations between Diaego and the TPC Capital-lead group on hold. The developments eventually forced Diaego to lower the total selling price of BKC by almost three quarters of a billion dollars. After the sale, newly appointed CEO Bradley Blum initiated a program to help the roughly 20% of its franchises, including its four largest, who were in financial distress, bankruptcy or had ceased operations altogether. Partnering with the California-based Trinity Capital, LLC, the company established the Franchisee Financial Restructuring Initiative, a program to address the financial issues facing BK's financially distressed franchisees. The initiative was designed to assist franchisees in restructuring their businesses in order to meet financial obligations, focus on restaurant operational excellence, reinvest in their operations and return to profitability.

Individual owners also took advantage of the AmeriKing failure; one of BK's regional owners, Miami-based Al Cabrera, purchased 130 stores located primarily in the Chicago and the upper mid-west region, from the failed company for a bargain basement price of $16 million, or approximately 88% of their original value. The new company, which started out as Core Value Partners and eventually became Heartland Foods, also purchased 120 additional stores from distressed owners and completely revamped them. The resulting purchases made Mr. Cabrerra BKB's largest minority franchisee and Heartland one of BKH's top franchises. By 2006, the company was valued at over $150 million, and was sold to New Yorkased GSO Capital Partners. Other purchasers included a three way group of NFL athletes Kevin Faulk, Marcus Allen and Michael Strahan who collectively purchased 17 stores in the cities of Norfolk and Richmond, Virginia; and Cincinnati-based franchisee Dave Devoy, who purchased 32 AmeriKing stores. After investing in new decor, equipment and staff retraining, many of the formerly failing stores have shown growth upwards of 20%.

Legal issues

Main article: Burger King legal issues

The Hoots' family Burger King restaurant in Mattoon, Illinois, one subject of major litigation by Burger King.

Burger King has been involved in several legal disputes and cases, as both plaintiff and defendant, in the years since its founding in 1954. Situations involving these many legal topics have affected almost every aspect of the company's operations. Depending on the ownership and executive staff at the time of these incidents, the company's responses to these challenges have ranged from a conciliatory dialog with its critics and litigants to a more aggressive opposition with questionable tactics and negative consequences. The company's response to these various issues has drawn praise, scorn, and accusations of political appeasement from different parties over the years.

Controversies and disputes with groups such as People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) over the welfare of animals, governmental and social agencies over health issues and compliance with nutritional labeling laws, and unions and trade groups over labor relations and laws. These situations have touched on legal and moral concepts such as animal rights, corporate responsibility, ethics, and social justice. While the majority of the disputes did not result in lawsuits, in many of the cases the situations raised legal questions, dealt with legal compliance, or resulted in legal remedies such as changes in contractual procedure or binding agreements between parties. The resolutions to these legal matters have often altered the way the company interacts and negotiates contracts with its suppliers and franchisees or how it does business with the public.

Further controversies have occurred during the company's expansion in the Middle East. The opening of a Burger King location in the Israeli-occupied territories lead to a breach of contract dispute between Burger King and its Israeli franchise; the dispute eventually erupted into a geopolitical conflagration involving Muslim and Jewish groups on multiple continents over the application of and adherence to international law. The case eventually elicited reactions from the members of the 22-nation Arab League; the Islamic countries within the League made a joint threat to the company of legal sanctions including the revocation of Burger King's business licenses within the member states' territories. A related issue involving members of the Islamic faith over the interpretation of the Muslim version of canon law, Shariah, regarding the promotional artwork on a dessert package in the United Kingdom raised issues of cultural sensitivity, and, with the former example, posed a larger question about the lengths that companies must go to insure the smooth operation of their businesses in the communities they serve.

A trademark dispute involving the owners of the identically named Burger King in Mattoon, Illinois led to a federal lawsuit; the case's outcome helped define the scope of the Lanham act and trademark law in the United States. An existing trademark held by a shop of the same name in South Australia forced the company to change its name in Australia, while another state trademark in Texas forced the company to abandon its signature product, the Whopper, in several counties around San Antonio. Legal decisions from other suits have set contractual law precedents in regards to long-arm statutes, the limitations of franchise agreements, and ethical business practices; many of these decisions have helped define general business dealings that continue to shape the entire marketplace.

Charitable contributions and services

Burger King has two of its own in-house national charitable organizations and programs. One is the Have It Your Way Foundation, a U.S.-based non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation with multiple focuses on hunger alleviation, disease prevention and community education through scholarship programs at colleges in the US. The other charitable organization is the McLamore Foundation, also a non-profit, 501(c)(3) corporation that provides scholarships to students in the US and its territories. Additionally, there is an optional literacy program that partners individual restaurants with community schools in the US.

In various regions across the United States, Burger King and its franchises have aligned themselves with several charitable organizations that support research and treatment of juvenile cancer. Each year these coalitions hold a fund raising drive called A Chance for Kids, in which Burger King restaurants sell lottery-style scratch cards for $1. Each card produces a winning prize that is usually a food or beverage product, but includes (rarer) items such as shopping sprees or trips. In the Northeast, BK has affiliated itself with the Major League Baseball team the Boston Red Sox and its charitable foundation, the Jimmy Fund. The group runs the contest in Boston. In the New York city area it operates the contest in association with the Burger King Children's Charities of Metro New York and the New York Yankees. Funds raised in these areas go to support the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute located in Boston. In Nebraska, the company is affiliated with the Liz's Legacy Cancer Fund BK Beat Cancer for Kids program at the UNMC Eppley Cancer Center at the University of Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha. In the Pittsburgh region it funded the establishment of the Burger King Cancer Caring Center, a support organization for the families and friends of cancer patients.

Products

Main article: Burger King products

The Whopper sandwich, Burger King's signature product

When the company began, its menu consisted predominantly of hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks, and desserts. In 1957, BK added its signature item, the Whopper. This quarter pound hamburger was created by Burger King founders James McLamore and David Edgerton as a way to differentiate BK from other burger outlets at the time. The sandwich became famous enough that BK eventually adopted the motto "Home of the Whopper".

One of Donald N. Smith's first changes to the menu was the addition of the Burger King Specialty sandwich line in 1979, which significantly expanded the breadth of the BK menu with many non-hamburger sandwiches including new chicken and fish offerings. The new specialty sandwich line was one of the first attempts to target a specific demographic, in this case adults 18-34, members of which would be willing to spend more on a higher quality product. One of Smith's other significant contribution to the menu was the addition of a breakfast product line, which until this time was not a market Burger King had entered. Besides the addition of the Croissan'Wich in 1983, the breakfast menu remained almost identical to the McDonald's offerings until a menu revamp in 1985. This expansion introduced BK's Am Express product line which added new products such as French toast sticks and Mini-muffins.

As the company expanded both inside and outside the US, it introduced localized versions of its products that conform to regional tastes and cultural or religious beliefs. International variations add ingredients such as teriyaki or beetroot and fried egg to the Whopper, beer in Germany, Italy and Spain, and halal or kosher products in the middle East and Israel. To generate additional sales, BK will occasionally introduce limited time offers (LTOs) that are versions of its core products or new products intended for either long or short term sales. Items such as the Texas Double Whopper and various sandwiches made with mushrooms and Swiss cheese have been rotated in and out of its menu for several years while products such as its 1993 offering, a Meatloaf Specialty Sandwich and limited table service along with special dinner platters, failed to generate interest and were discontinued.

A meal including small french fries, a Whopper, Jr., a drink, and packets of Heinz ketchup

In order to appeal to as many demographic groups as possible and better compete with its fast food restaurant competitor Wendy's, Burger King added a multi-tiered value menu in 1993 with items priced at 99, $1.99 and $2.99 (USD). The project, called Operation Phoenix, was an attempt to add not only a value menu but a line of value meals. The tiered menu was replaced with a more standard value menu in 1998, while the value meals were separated into their own menu segment. This value menu featured seven products: Whopper Jr., 5 piece Chicken Tenders, a bacon cheeseburger, medium sized french fries, medium soft drink, medium onion rings and small shake. In 2002 and 2006, BK revamped its value menu adding and removing several different products such as chili and its Rodeo Cheeseburger. Many of these items have since been discontinued, modified or relegated to a regional menu option. To better appeal to a more adult palate and demographic, BK introduced several new products to its menu in 2003, including several new or revamped chicken products, a new salad line and its BK Joe brand of coffee. Some of the new products, including its Enormous Omelet Sandwich line and the BK Stacker line, brought negative attention due the large portion size, amounts of unhealthy fats and trans-fats. Many of these products feature higher quality ingredients like whole chicken breast, Angus beef, natural cheeses such as Cheddar and pepper jack. Again, not all these products, such as the BK Baguette line, have met corporate sales expectations.

Advertising

Main article: Burger King advertising

A Burger King advertisement on a bus stop in Seoul, South Korea.

Burger King has employed varied advertising programs, both successful and unsuccessful, since its foundation in 1954. During the 1970s, output included a memorable jingle, the inspiration for its current mascot the Burger King and several well known and parodied slogans such as Have it your way and It takes two hands to handle a Whopper. Burger King introduced the first attack ad in the fast food industry with the help of then unknown Sarah Michelle Gellar in 1981. The television spot, which claimed BK burgers were larger than competitor McDonald's, so enraged executives at McDonald's parent company, they sued all parties involved. Starting in the early 1980s and running through approximately 2001, BK engaged a series of ad agencies that produced many unsuccessful slogans and programs, including its biggest advertising flop Where's Herb?.

Burger King was a pioneer in the advertising practice known as the product tie-in with a successful partnering with George Lucas' Lucasfilm, Ltd. to promote the 1977 film Star Wars in which BK sold a set of glasses featuring the main characters from the film. This promotion was one of the first in the fast food industry and set the pattern that continues to the present. BK's early success in the field was overshadowed by a 1982 deal between McDonald's and the Walt Disney Company to promote Disney's animated films beginning in the mid 1980s and running through the early 1990s. In 1994 Disney switched from McDonald's to Burger King, signing a ten film promotional contract which would include such top ten films as Aladdin (1992), Beauty and the Beast (1991), The Lion King (1994) and Toy Story (1995). A partnership in association with the Pokmon franchise at the height of its popularity in 1999 was one of the most successful in the industry, rivaled only by McDonald's/Ty Beanie Babies cross-promotion in 19992000.

Shortly after the acquisition of Burger King by TPG Capital, L.P. in 2002, its newly hired CEO Bradley (Brad) Blum set about turning around fortunes of the company by initiating an overhaul its flailing advertising programs. One of the first moves by the company was to reinstate its famous Have it your way slogan as the corporate motto. BK handed the effort off to its new advertising agency, Miami-based Crispin Porter + Bogusky (abbreviated as CP+B). CP+B was known for having a hip, subversive tack when creating campaigns for its clients, exactly what BK was looking for. One of CP+B strategies was to revive the Burger King character used during BKs 1970s/1980s Burger King Kingdom children's advertising campaign as a caricatured variation now simply called "the King". The farcical nature of the Burger King centered advertisements inspired an internet meme where the King is photoshopped into unusual situations that are either comical or menacing, many times followed with the phrase Where is your God now?.

Additionally, CP+B created a series new characters like the Subservient Chicken and the faux nu metal band Coq Roq featured in a series of viral web-based advertisements on sites such as MySpace and various BK corporate pages to compliment the various television and print promotional campaigns. One of the more unique promotions that CP+B devised was the creation of a series of three advergames for the Xbox 360. Featuring company celebrity spokesman Brooke Burke, the games sold more than 2 million copies, placing them as one of the top selling games along with another Xbox 360 hit, Gears of War. These innovative ad campaigns, coupled with other new promotions and a series of new product introductions, drew considerable positive and negative attention to BK and helped TPG and its partners realize about $367 million in dividends.

Headquarters

Company headquarters in unincorporated Miami-Dade County, Florida

Burger King is headquartered in a nine-story office tower by Miami International Airport. Elaine Walker of the Miami Herald stated that the headquarters has a "Burger King" sign that drivers on Florida State Road 836 "can't miss." In addition the chain planned to build a neon sign on the roof to advertise the brand to passengers landing at the airport. 130 employees began working at the Burger King headquarters on Monday July 8, 2002, with the remainder to move in phrases in August 2002. Prior to the moving to its current headquarters in 2002, Burger King had considered moving away from the Miami area; Miami-Dade County politicians and leaders lobbied against this, and Burger King stayed in the area.

The company's previous headquarters were in a southern Dade County campus described by Walker as "sprawling" and "virtually hidden away." The former headquarters were located in the Cutler census-designated place; since then the area incorporated into the Village of Palmetto Bay. The former Burger King headquarters as of 2007 houses rental offices for several companies.

By 2006 Burger King had announced that it planned to move its headquarters to a proposed office building in Coral Gables. By 2007 Burger King instead renewed the lease in its existing headquarters for 15 years. Burger King planned to consolidate employees working at an area near Miami International Airport and at a Dadeland Mall-area facility into the current headquarters by June of that year. Instead Bacardi USA leased the headquarter complex, a 15-story building.

International operations

Countries with Burger King restaurants

Key:

Red: Current BK countries

Orange: Former BK countries

Yellow: Hungry Jack's countries

Burger King has a longstanding presence at U.S. Army and U.S. Air Force installations worldwide, dating back to the 1980s under a contract with Army and Air Force Exchange Service. Today, while other chains such as Taco Bell, Popeye's, and Subway have a presence on military bases, virtually every major Army and Air Force installation hosts a BK restaurant.

Countries currently with Burger King locations

 Afghanistan (Army and Air Force Exchange Service)

 Andorra

 Argentina

 Austria

 Australia (known as Hungry Jack's)

 Bangladesh

 Bahamas

 Bahrain

 Bolivia

 Brazil

 Bulgaria

 Canada

 Colombia (Reentered March 2008)

 Chile

 Czech Republic

 People's Republic of China ()

 Hong Kong ()

 Costa Rica

 Cyprus

 Denmark

 Dominican Republic

 Ecuador

 Egypt

 El Salvador

 Faroe Islands

 Germany

 Gibraltar

 Guatemala

 Guyana

 Honduras

 Hungary

 India

 Indonesia

 Iraq (AAFES)

 Ireland

 Israel

 Italy

 Jamaica

 Japan

 Jordan

 Kuwait

 Lebanon

 Malaysia

 Malta

 Mexico

 Netherlands

 Aruba

 Netherlands Antilles

 Curaao

 Sint Maarten

 New Zealand

 Nicaragua

 Norway

 Oman

 Panama

 Paraguay

 Peru

 Philippines

 Poland

 Portugal (Franchised by Ibersol Group)

 Romania

 Russia (Franchised by Shokoladnitsa)

 Moscow

 Qatar

 South Korea

 Saudi Arabia ( )

 Singapore

 Spain

 Saint Lucia

 Sweden

 Switzerland

 Republic of China ()

 Thailand

 Trinidad and Tobago

 Turkey

 United Arab Emirates

 United Kingdom

 Cayman Islands

 United States

 Guam

 Puerto Rico

 Uruguay

 Venezuela

Countries formerly with Burger King restaurants

 Australia: Burger King branded restaurants operated 19972003 violating franchise agreements, sold and rebranded to Australian Burger King franchise Hungry Jack's following legal action

 Finland: Burger King operated in Helsinki for a short period in 1980s

 France: Burger King decided to leave France in 1997 and closed their 39 French outlets in 1998

 Greece: Burger King operated in Greece for a short period in the early 1990s

 Ukraine: Burger King operated in Kiev for a short period in 2006.

 United States Virgin Islands: Burger King left both St. Croix and St. Thomas in 1997

 Iceland: Burger King has closed its doors on the 31st of December 2008. news link

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^ Megan Steintrager (2000-11-05). "Middle East Muddle". Nations Restaurant News. http://www.allbusiness.com/retail-trade/eating-drinking-places/4284932-1.html. Retrieved 2008-06-24. "... and the Arab League has threatened to revoke contracts for 84 Burger Kings throughout the Middle East." 

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^ Edward Rothestien (2006-02-20). "History Illuminates the Rage of Muslims". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/20/arts/20conn.html?scp=1&sq=Burger+King+Islam+Ice+Cream&st=nyt. Retrieved 2008-06-04. "Today's Iconoclasts want to oppose all attempts to display forbidden images, whatever their provenance. And for a variety of reasons, many in the West readily defer. Last fall, for example, Burger King withdrew its ice cream from restaurants in Britain after receiving complaints from Muslims that the swirling illustration on the package resembled the name of Allah." 

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Annual revenue  $2.05 billion USD (2006)  Employees 340,000 (2005)  Stock symbol NYSE: BKC  Website burgerking.com

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Hamburger

A&W  Arctic Circle  Big Boy  Burger King  Burgerville  Carl's Jr.  Checkers/Rally's  Cook Out  Culver's  Fatburger  Five Guys  Hardee's  In-N-Out Burger  Jack in the Box  Johnny Rockets  Krystal  Maid-Rite  McDonald's  Nation's Giant Hamburgers  Roy Rogers  Sonic Drive-In  Steak n Shake  Tommy's  Wendy's  Whataburger  White Castle  Winstead's  Zippy's

Pizza

Boston Pizza  CiCi's Pizza  Domino's  Donatos Pizza  Hungry Howie's Pizza  Little Caesars  Mazzio's  Papa Gino's  Papa John's  Peter Piper Pizza  Pizza Hut  Pizzeria Regina  Rocky Rococo  Round Table Pizza  Sal's Pizza  Sbarro  Shakey's Pizza

Chicken

Bojangles' Famous Chicken 'n Biscuits  Boston Market  Brown's  Chick-fil-A  Chicken Express  Church's Chicken  El Pollo Loco  Kentucky Fried Chicken  Pollo Tropical  Popeyes  Raising Cane's  Zaxby's

Asian-Pacific foods

Jollibee (Filipino)  L&L Hawaiian Barbecue  Lee's Sandwiches (Vietnamese)  Manchu Wok (Chinese)  Panda Express (Chinese)  Pick Up Stix (Chinese)  Sarku Japan (Japanese)  Yoshinoya (Japanese)

Ice cream

Baskin-Robbins  Ben & Jerry's  Braum's  Brigham's Ice Cream  Bruster's  Carvel  Cold Stone Creamery  Culver's  Dairy Queen  Dippin' Dots  Friendly's  Fosters Freeze  Hagen-Dazs  Marble Slab Creamery  Newport Creamery  Tastee-Freez

Frozen yogurt

Pinkberry  Red Mango  TCBY  Yogen Frz

Sandwich

Arby's  Blimpie  Cos  D'Angelo Sandwich Shops  Firehouse Subs  Hogi Yogi  Jason's Deli  Jersey Mike's Subs  Jimmy John's  Kelly's Roast Beef  Milio's Sandwiches  Panera Bread  Potbelly Sandwich Works  Quiznos  Rax Roast Beef  Schlotzsky's  Subway  Tropical Smoothie Cafe  Tubby's  Which Wich?

Seafood

Arthur Treacher's  Captain D's  Ivar's  Long John Silver's

Hot dog

James Coney Island  Hot Dog on a Stick  Nathan's Famous  Portillo's  Wienerschnitzel

Mexican-style food

Baja Fresh  Boloco  Cafe Rio  California Tortilla  Chipotle Mexican Grill  Del Taco  Freebirds World Burrito  Mighty Taco  Moe's Southwest Grill  Qdoba Mexican Grill  Rubio's Fresh Mexican Grill  Taco Bell  Taco Bueno  Taco Cabana  Taco John's  Taco Mayo  Taco Tico  Taco Time

Baked goods

Au Bon Pain  Auntie Anne's  Bruegger's  Cinnabon  Dunkin' Donuts  Einstein Bros. Bagels  Krispy Kreme  Mrs. Field's Cookies  Pretzel Time  Shipley Do-Nuts  T.J. Cinnamons  Tim Hortons  Winchell's Donuts

Beverages

Caribou Coffee  The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf  Coffee Beanery  Dunn Bros  Jamba Juice  Orange Julius  Peet's Coffee & Tea  Planet Smoothie  Seattle's Best Coffee  Smoothie King  Starbucks  Tully's Coffee   Biggby Coffee

Defunct

Burger Chef  Carrols  Druther's  Gino's Hamburgers  Naugles  Red Barn  Sandy's

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Food chains in the United Kingdom

Coffeehouse:

AMT Coffee  Caff Nero  Caff Ritazza  Coffee Republic  Costa Coffee  Gloria Jean's Coffees  Starbucks

Fast food restaurants:

Bagel Nash  Baskin-Robbins  Burger King  Chicken Cottage  Dixy Chicken  Domino's Pizza  Favorite Chicken  KFC  Krispy Kreme  Little Chef  McDonald's  Millie's Cookies  Papa John's Pizza  Pizza Hut  Sbarro   Shakeaway  Spudulike  Wimpy  Yogen Frz 

Casual dining:

Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses  Beefeater  Bella Italia  Brewers Fayre  Caf Rouge  Carluccio's  Chiquito  Damon's  Fine Burger Company  Frankie & Benny's  Gourmet Burger Kitchen  Hard Rock Cafe  Harry Ramsden's  Harvester  Hooters  Hungry Horse  Loch Fyne  Nando's  Outback Steakhouse  PizzaExpress  Planet Hollywood  Prezzo  Rainforest Cafe  Romano's Macaroni Grill  Strada  Taybarns  T.G.I. Friday's  Wagamama  YO! Sushi  Zizzi

Sandwich shops:

Bakers Oven  EAT.  Greggs  O'Briens  Pret A Manger  Quiznos  Sayers   Subway  Upper Crust

Pub chains:

All Bar One  Firkin Brewery  Scream Pubs  Slug and Lettuce  Walkabout  Wetherspoons  Yates's

Former chains:

ABC  Arby's  A&W Restaurants  Berni Inn  Benjys  Blimpie  Chili's  Dunkin' Donuts  Happy Eater  Long John Silver's  Lyons Corner Houses  Pasta Hut  Popeye's  Quick  Schlotzsky's  Taco Bell  Wendy's

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Restaurant chains in Ireland

Fast-food restaurants

Abrakebabra  Apache Pizza  Burger King  Domino's Pizza  Four Star Pizza  KFC  McDonald's  Supermac's  Wimpy

Casual dining restaurants

Captain America's  Eddie Rocket's  Hard Rock Cafe  Harry Ramsden's  Metzo  Pizza Hut  Spur Steakhouse  T.G.I. Friday's

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Almodovar’s Patty Diphusa Translated by Gianni Truvianni for Ewa Kaspzyk

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As always Addy managed to get in to a car without being invited and left me both behind and on my behind, at the gallery’s front door. Two guys came up to me and asked me to a party. I said “Yes, but just give me a chance to puke up”. After which I felt more relaxed. With the heat in the car I blacked out. I am no Audrey Hepburn, known for her serene beauty. I am another type; the kind who even after having tossed her cookies can still drive the men mad. Sometimes I forget that I am a sex bomb and with a bomb like me sometimes men forget their good manners. When I came to I was on the outskirts of town. No longer surrounded by luxury but on the ground, lying in a torn dress like a punk rocker with someone’s dick assaulting my sleepy pussy. “Where am I and what am I doing here?” was my question which only earned me a slap and in the face and the standard “Oh, come off it you puked just to turn us on. Bitch!” It’s always flattering to see a couple of men blind with lust but I must confess I was frightened. Despite circumstance I gathered up all my charm and told them not to worry. We would follow their heart’s desire what ever that might be. However my good manners enraged them the more. Due to the fact that I’m no lover of tragedy and it not being my first time for getting raped; I won’t tell you all the details. Ok, ok if you must know I’ll tell you! You dragged it out of me. The first one was fascinated by the way I smoked leading him to idolization. It turned out the other guy had been in love with his friends since they were kids. When he got out of the pen he promised his chum me as a gift! I understand this but I prefer things done in a more civilized manner. It pisses me off that real life is like a porno specially when I take the lead role. The killer decked me one more time to hush me, so what was I to do? I went about doing a relaxation exercise. I mentally put myself on a deserted island, sunbathing in the nude, being serenaded by sea’s murmur and caressed by the Caribbean’s breeze. To be raped by two psychos is acceptable, but to be left behind looking like a reject from a Mexican vampire film is what I would call in bad taste; they could have at least given me a lift home. I realize there are times in which a woman is forced in to feminism. It wasn’t that I was afraid of running in to more psychos but I didn’t know how I was going to get home. Everybody knows what a hassle it is get around in this city. I ran out in the road, to stop a car. It was a guy. I told him all about it even what didn’t go on. In my tale they were no longer killers but a Vasc heavy metal band. All of them tough guys, handsome, tall, bearded with beautiful eyes. I even threw in that one of their sister’s was Miss Spain 83. Of course they also had to be terrorists. While I was talking to him I subconsciously moved my hand to his crouch. He told me to be careful in not leaving any telltale marks. We jumped to the nasties right away and at the end we did it all. While dressing he confessed he had never eaten out a woman before. I was moved by this. What? Despite being a porn star I am also an incurable sentimentalist. When he left me at my door, I said “You have two minutes to let me down, I think I am falling for you”. He said “I am married with children”. “that doesn’t let me down” “ I need you to let me down so I can get to sleep and not think about you fucking me all night” and we said our goodbye. While bathing pictures flashed through my brain as if caused by LSD. His words coming back to me “You are the first woman I have eaten out”. “What could he have thought about me?” “provable that I was loose” but he was wrong I am a woman who lives all out” “I couldn’t get out him out of my head so I went to a disco. The rain was pouring; the night wasn’t even fit for a dog. Well at least it wasn’t raining when I was getting gang banged. On disco floor there were couples making out and about 15 guys. All of them starring at me! However only one caught my eye. He wasn’t dancing but moving his hips to the music. When I am horny I take in every detail. Even how the next presidential election is going to come out. If I were asked. I really had the hots for this guy. I told him if he would dance for me in private I would give him what ever he wanted. Tina Turner would have gotten wet if she had seen what he was doing to her latest hit. And when he got to interpreting “Dirty Mind”…if Prince had seen him; he wouldn’t have doubts about touring Spain for free for the right to have breakfast with him. After all, the kid was a show stopper. He was like an intervenes shot of whisky. This could get boring after half an hour. Is there anything that wouldn’t be after so long? We went to the “little boys room” which always has less things going on. 69 was first on my mind but not enough room available so we took turns. He ate me out first and after a job well done said “You are the first woman I have ever eaten out”. I started getting annoyed. I had heard it for the second time that evening along with leaving no telltale signs. We did it all. We didn’t make it to our 3rd orgasm because someone knocked on the door. “Ocupado!” I cried. “We’re having an orgy! Don’t be shy join us!” Was my partner’s reply. I had no intension of defending my virtues. We opened the door and who should we see? No, other then the guy whose car I got in after having been rapped by the two psychos. And the talk went like this “You?” said I “You?’ he repeated after having recognized me. “Come in, feel at home, you’ve come at the right moment. He seemed pissed off. “He loves me! Or so I thought and does not want to see me in the can with another man”. I reproached him with a fairly feminist tone. “What’s up with you?” “Does it piss you off to see me fucking others?” “Yes, specially when you are doing it with my lover” “What? Didn’t you say you were married?” “Yes, to me!” exclaimed the dancer. “You’ll excuse me boys, I’m not going to get mixed up in a lover’s quarrel. I am too hip for that!” and I did my best not to leave any marks on either of you” All in all it added up to, 6 fuckings, 4 men all crazy for me and going home alone but I didn’t care. If the choice is between getting involved with a murder who had just got off, his creepy friend and a pair of bisexuals who can’t even improvise. I’d rather be a free woman! We are living in hard times, with no room for sensitivity and that’s no good. You either chase a dream; looking for something, going after it and you come to believe it might just be. I hailed a cab. The cabbie’s name was Lucio who looked like Marlon Brando. A tough guy -Where to lady? - Don’t know. - You got anything to say or are you a mute? - What a way to make small talk? I was impressed! And it hit me lady luck had smiled upon me and I smiled back. A change of fortunes could come in handy so I carried the conversation. - Take me as far as you can. I can afford it with the 5000 I have on me. -With that kind of dough there many places we can go to -So take me to all of them He took me to a flee market It was 5 am, cold; him saying it was the only place where one could get coffee at that time. I asked him if he only thought of himself. To which he replied he used to think only of others but that was over with. When I heard it my emotions got the better of my reason that I always liked the kind that never gave me anything; making it necessary for me to take it for myself. He told me just to go home! That’s easy for him to say “home is only a place for sleeping, thinking and taking showers and I had had it with showers for that night. I told him to bring me but I didn’t ask him in. I told him it would be for another time if it came about. He hadn’t even turned on the meter and said he just needed to be with me. He could have put me to better use before leaving me what he got for me. A kilo of shrimp. I was really touched by this kilo of shrimp in the same way I am when Meryl Streep plays a Turk. Does anybody know in what film Meryl Streep plays a Turk? Oh, fuck it! However my next film will be “Thighs Aflame”. Its about a woman who mistreats men who don’t want to bang her. Now a days this is unthinkable, if a woman knows what she wants she’s got to be cleaver and some guys pretend bad manners when in fact they are hiding a heart a gold. The story starts in a bar. My character when going to the can looks behind her at a guy at the bar; the Mel Gibson type though a lot taller, packing more meat and more simpatico. She turns around and says “Hey, Que pasa? What’s up?” Wanna get it on so early? -lets go to your place They take a cab to her place; she takes her clothes off and says -On the way here I thought of how much I want to spend the night in your arms. I think the two of could use some love but we’ll just gotta settle for screwing because she like Citibank never slept; kinda like me. They do it and after awhile she bends over and says is it real leather? And he says “it’s crystal”. It was just a sad story, the kind of tear jerker you hear on the radio which does nothing for me. People think that as famous as I’ve become I’m only interested in being an artist and I don’t get offers to do porn films. I have to say that I have neglected porn but I think I should get back to it. After all one should never turn away from one’s roots. I get the impression that porn without fantasy is much the thing in America now a days. Someone hit upon the idea to make a serial based on my memoirs. The lead part in this film would be played by her. “Why does this bitch get to do it and not I?” Your just too full of life, too perfect, no one but no one could put up with you in Hollywood. Just who am I? (Films starts and ends) During the last few months I convinced myself that I am a monster. I don’t deserve to be loved. I still end up with all the weirdoes in town though recently I have taken to the mysterious kind but only if there cock is what it should be. Today’s men willingly mix sex and emotions; this is a curious factor from a physiological point of view but there is always the risk of falling in love. For instance Pepon and I’ve got letter from him. (and I start reading it) “It’s 8 am; I’ve just left with 3 guys with whom I” I would have preferred a less aseptic letter but it wasn’t bad. I told him he could come see me and we’d go to bed, he’d answer the phone. Going to bed with some guys is not enough. Pepon became my lover-secretary. It doesn’t look like am in love? It’s not ethical to feel passionate over your secretary/lover. Furthermore I couldn’t care less and he lost his will to do anything because according to him I was tying him down and his mother started to worry. I told him to take me home to mother and she’d get why I am so vital to his artic development. The old lady didn’t look bad and must have done a lot of reading; giving the impression of someone who had not known much of life’s disappointments. She could have been a senator or something like that. -I don’t mind my son having fun but you’re no poet and vice means more to them then to the rest of us. -You don’t need to be a poet to have fun on the contrary, poets tend to be naïve even when they get drunk. Pepon had nothing to say to any of this. -I don’t know why you had hang ups about me meeting your mother; she’s great -I worry about my son but he’s all I have. What could I say? -You’re still at an age in which you can get by. You might have to pay for it but I don’t think that would be a problem for you. I’ll give a pimps number. They looked at me as if they had superman’s laser vision. -I am content with looking after my boy but being a transvestite who could never have children you wouldn’t know what that’s like -I don’t think I heard you? -I am bleeding heart liberal so there’s no need to for you to feel ashamed about ever being able to have any children -Just hold it right there lady, my cunt is big enough to have a whole bundle of men and even children if I took less care. -You missed my point I’m a bleeding heart liberal! You really don’t need to hide your being a transvestite from me. -Dear lady, if you say that one more time I will swallow all these cookies whole. Thousands of men have been lost in the vastness of my cunt and your son is among them. Quoting Mae West “When I am good I am good but when I am bad I am better”. We then took turns slapping each other and I gave Pepon the pink slip. A clean cut man calls me over with his eyes. Patience, I make the first move here! If I wanted to loose my way for the evening you’d be one of the light towers I’d look to for guidance. That didn’t go so bad, did it? Hey man, are you up for spending the night other then a quite one at home? I recently find myself turning in to a poet. (song “Bellafonte” starts) This song takes me back to all those Christmases I’ve been running a way from. This sentimental tune which now seems cruel. There are male voices which make a lonely woman feel like a raggedy old shoe. I am scared, I feel as if I’ve grown up. (the song comes to an end) What? Unexpected sentimentality. If ever there were somebody in this world who I would like to see again it is him. (said while holding the bag of shrimp) He once took me to a street market and presented with a kilo of shrimp. Lucio Lucio Lucio; I long for him but I am too weak to even think about it him taking me by the hand to a room; sitting next to me while he quietly and slowly manages to delete my sorrow like someone wiping dirt of tiles with a toothbrush. My life like my tale only has a start with no middle or end. I am scared, I feel as if I’ve grown up. I could start over, a new life. (making a phone call on her cell phone) -Lucio, it’s me Patty, remember me? Can you come get me? Ok I’m waiting. This new life may only last 5 minutes before Lucio leaves to my lonesome with me having to look elsewhere. Before I leave I would like to write my will so nobody will get the impression that I’m either sick or married. Nothing interests me anymore specially when fun is in and fame makes you go over everything. If you are a good girl people get the impression that you’ll always be, if give up your vigor they think you’ll always be wet, if you are spontaneous they think you’re not well brought up. I don’t want to be understood and even less to be imitated. Who am I to impose bad taste and vulgarity. What is going is on in the world that a slut like me gets the red carpet. Why did I have to become a myth? I would have been satisfied with making a lot of money and happiness. Ok, farewell and I’m out of here. Good bye Must everything be a party or sex? Parties used to be places where one went to loose one’s boyfriend and jewelry which made for a dignified life. Now a days a party is a bowl in which your old friends have become mummies posing for amateur photographers who choose to publish the worst photos. Who are they kidding? It’s that unbearable need that everybody has to show off their greatness. Fame has made a sad case out of me in my melancholy and I got nothing more to say. I don’t want to say more. There is no point in going on!
About the Author

My name is Gianni Truvianni, I am an author who writes with the simple aim of sharing his ideas, thoughts and so much more of what I am with those who are interested in perhaps reading something new. As for the details regarding my life I would say that there is nothing that lifts them above the ordinary. I was born in New York City in 1967 on May 21st and am presently living in Warsaw, Poland where I wrote my first book “New York’s Opera Society” now Available on Amazon.