Burger King 2023 Closures

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Re: Burger King to close 26 southeast Michigan locations including 12 in Detroit, 2 in Flint

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storewanderer wrote: April 17th, 2023, 11:19 pm Burger King seems to really be suffering. I recall last year the CEO of RBI came out and said they were going to stop doing value-based promotions on the Whopper. Citing it is their signature item and they need to stop discounting it. While I understand the logic, the problem is too many promotions for too long... combined with franchisees like the one in Reno who think a single Whopper is worth 6.59 (no cheese) or 7.39 (cheese). For quite a few years the Whopper was on constant 2 for $5, etc. type promotions.

I guess that didn't work out so well.

In general it seems like these flame broiled chains, Burger King, Carls, are not doing well. I find it strange. I don't think the problem is the food. I think the problem is too much bad execution.
In the case of Burger King, they rely heavily on precooking and reheating stuff in the microwave. Breakfast sandwiches in my opinion are no better than a Jimmy Dean frozen sandwich. And even when I order a burger without most condiments due to food allergies, the meat just doesn't have a fresh taste to it, like they reheated a precooked patty.

I will say that if you get a freshly cooked burger they are pretty good right off the broiler though.
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Re: Burger King to close 26 southeast Michigan locations including 12 in Detroit, 2 in Flint

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Super S wrote: April 26th, 2023, 1:42 pm

In the case of Burger King, they rely heavily on precooking and reheating stuff in the microwave. Breakfast sandwiches in my opinion are no better than a Jimmy Dean frozen sandwich. And even when I order a burger without most condiments due to food allergies, the meat just doesn't have a fresh taste to it, like they reheated a precooked patty.

I will say that if you get a freshly cooked burger they are pretty good right off the broiler though.
Both Burger King and Carls are excellent if you get a burger straight out of the broiler. The problem is that seems to be a rare thing, almost like you'd have better odds going to a casino. I don't understand why these chains can't go to a strict cook to order model. Their restaurants are dead, they have so few customers, yet they still insist on this batch cooking process for meat patties.

I go to Carls and the Carls gets almost no customers. I think between 5 PM and 7 PM they get about 10 customers total on a good night (inside and drive through total) and while they get some large orders, they do this thing where they batch cook a ton of food before 5 PM and then it sits around waiting for the few customers to show up. The other ironic thing is despite everything it still takes them 5-10 minutes per customer to get the order assembled because they are just slow and tired (probably from being so bored all day).
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Re: Burger King 2023 Closures

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https://www.audacy.com/wbbm780/news/nat ... zKIUjIARSQ

400 locations will close by the end of this year. No list, but any unremodeled location will likely be possible candidates for closure.
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Re: Burger King 2023 Closures

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And some of the ones in and around Detroit are re-opening:

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainme ... 601742007/


These are in reasonably good locations, and are reasonably updated....did notice a truck at the one in Ferndale recently.

There is at least one "showplace" new-build on Woodward in Royal Oak which surprisingly didn't get rolled up into these (good enough location/facility and only 4-ish miles from these location). I'd think, though that restaurant will take $$$ from the new franchisee to reopen (as the location is too prime for it to be a "gimme" as these others likely were).
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Re: Burger King 2023 Closures

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The newest BK decor is so bland and colorless. It is just gray fake wood furniture and gray tiles. It is so boring you would not even know what chain you are in.

The one closest to me was a totally 80s Burger King perfectly preserved until a few years ago. The remodel was a downgrade.
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