BK in Russia? Smh I thought biological warfare was illegal.
Was going to say that.
They’re making too much money. Corporations are not beholden to nations, silly Americans.
Burger King ad, remove. Fast food are a health hazard stop promoting this shit
Capital Scum doing capitalist scum shit.
Yeah, they should only operate in good countries, like the US.
And Israel
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On all the shorts etc showing sanction life in Russia, not one has mentioned burger King is still there.
Ukraine: Have it Russia’s way.
Who the fuck cares who is still open in Russia. Theres plenty of companiess still open in Israel where’s the outrage over that?
You know you can care about multiple things at once, right?
OK?
So you say I should ignore all the injustice in the world just because I cannot care about all of them?
That’s just stupid
why can’t you care about all of them. Also how is burger king selling burgers injustice?
Classic Russian whataboutism
I do love me some Tchaikovsky
Ah, classic case of whataboutism. Go troll somewhere else.
Uhh you’re on my server dummy
They didn’t change their name like McDonald’s? No principles smh
Burger Tzar
You have got to try their condom pizzas. The condoms mimic the texture of cheese!
Don’t like it, don’t go there. Tell them why.
Personally I’m boycotting them. Not because of any moral justification, but because they sell overpriced disappointing mulch.
Literally worst fast food joint and the only people I’ve met who claim otherwise have objectively bad taste.
Like no joke, objectively, “I love a butter and cheese sandwich on wonderbread”, British, wouldn’t know flavor if it ripped their tongue out.
I sent my sister a bottle of fry sauce that she’s been trying to find for years (she never thought to check Amazon lol), this is what she sends me back. Told her she was supposed to use it to enhance good food, not make terrible food tolerable.
just finished
Bitch that “food’s” barely been touched
I have to make my own burgers now. Most places serve fast food swill, and the only nice place has switched to brioche buns.
Brioche buns are not load bearing buns! They fall apart at the slightest contact with moisture. I will die on this hill forever.
Surely most untoasted buns will fall apart if dealing with anything outside of a basic burger?
If you use a small, cheap bun, you can’t expect toppings to not break it apart.
I dunno man, the brioche buns i make hold up well. To each their own i guess
Dying on a hill forever sounds really painful. Ouch.
As opposed to dying in a valley forever, totally painless.
I’m curious about dying on a hill temporarily though.
And yet they invented the sticky toffee pudding. Two extremes
You rank BK as worse than McDonald’s? I only ask cause I’ve worked at both, and I would put McDonald’s just the tiniest bit lower than BK. Wendy’s is barely better than both BK and McDonald’s.
McDonalds has good fries and the McFlurry. Bk has zero redemption.
Back when i used to have fast food, I liked BK over McD because i preferred their fries and i liked their jalapeño poppers.
Here he is boys, the psychopath who prefers BK fries
McD fries are too soft and when they get cold they are absolute garbage. They almost seem soggy, without getting wet. BK have a crunch to them. At least this is the case in the UK.
Not going to say they’re good, but it is wild as fuck how much of a difference franchises can make. There are several BKs in my city, but a select few are owned by a different franchise than the majority of the others. Their food is WAY better, consistently, than the others, and it’s usually a lot fresher tasting.
True that. Forgot about the Mcflurry. Probably cause the machine was down
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when you see right, support that, when you see wrong, fight that. simple.
Restaurant Brands International owns Burger King, Tim Hortons, Popeye’s Chicken, and Firehouse Subs
Fuck RBI, they are lying war profiteers putting tax revenue in the hand of the Kremlin which it uses to fund it’s war of genocide in Ukraine. Do not eat in any of their restaurants
Are you also telling us how much they own of those Burger King franchises in Russia they are supposed to shut down?
You don’t own franchise partners by definition. They are individually owned restaurants that pay you a fee to use your brand (name, menu, marketing, etc.).
„Shutting down“ here means: Don’t renew these franchise contracts. The restaurants will continue to exist, but they will have to rebrand and be less lucrative.
but they will have to rebrand and be less lucrative.
And what do you do if those Russian franchise owners refuse to rebrand and continue using the BK name, supplies and signage?
Do you stop providing logistical support? Do you cut them off the BK supply chain (shut that down too) and not provide any new menu items / marketing materials?
Has BK done that?
Yes, obviously you should cut supply lines, duh. Why would you supply products to someone who isn’t paying for them.
So what is burger king doing wrong here?"
Edit: At least 10 people didn’t read the fucking article, BK did cut the supply line. This place is just like Reddit, all hurr durr without reading the article.
Nothing, because you just hallucinate supply lines. The franchise pays for the fucking name and that’s it. And if they are not allowed to do so anymore, who’s going to Russia and sue the owning oligarchs there?
They continue operating in russia as if everything’s fine.
They are telling you, literally. They should revoke the branding licence, cut every supply lines, and sue them if they continue using the brand (as they would surely do if I just started to have a Burger King without a licence). They don’t do these things. Which is wrong. And that’s what they are doing wrong.
What imaginary supply line are you talking about? Do you think that any food there is not supplied locally? That they import paper wrappings with a logo from the US? Actually the ones probably importing their stuff are sitting in the US, even if it’s just plastic trash from China.
It’s a name. And if they got told not to use it anymore or they just don’t pay anything anymore… what is supposed to happen? Someone goes to Russia and sues them there?
This is how I know you didn’t read the article.
BK did cut the supply chain logistics. It’s mentioned in the article.
Sue the franchisees? Where? In Russia? In the middle of an economic war with the west? Even if the suit proceeded for some reason, who do you expect the court to rule in favor of?
BK did everything to severe ties. The only thing that remains is to sell their share of the franchise. If they sell now (even if they find a buyer), they likely won’t be paid in anything other than rubles which is useless.
They are getting paid 100% of the franchise fees of their Russian businesses.
Especially with firehouse subs having such a purpose washed image/mission, you think they’d be smarter.
War profiteer is an interesting way to look at it. If a company doesn’t cut ties with warmonger countries, they are war profiteers ?
They should also get away from US, Israel, Saudi Arabia, and most of the “developed” countries that are historically exploiting poor countries ?
They sell fucking burguers, if they manage to not put too much garbage in the food to save money, they are doing enough.
They outrage is such a great example of western exceptionalism. The existence of western consumer businesses in the countries of the non-Aryan jungle is supposed to be an immense benefit to these places and their departure must necessarily be disastrous for them. Nowhere is the idea entertained that Russians are perfectly capable of creating their own shitty burger restaurants to replace those if the west.
It’s like that 80s news footage of the first McDonald’s opening in Moscow where they’re like
”finally those filthy commies get to enjoy our superior Western treats”Then they interview someone who says it wasn’t really worth it to stand in line and pay so much
Man your historical revisionism is almost endless at hexbear.
I grew up in a navy/embassy family, so moved around every 3-5 years onto new postings. At an embassy posting in Stockholm, it was common for the attaché-community to pair newly arrived families with someone who had been there for a while. My mum thus got paired with a newly arrived Soviet wife-of-an-attaché to show her the ropes of diplomat life. This lady was on her first posting (it was quite common for Soviet embassy staff to have a LOT of newcomers for fear that they would get to used to western life style and seek asylum) and she was showing this lady where to do shopping in Stockholm. I was joining as I was too small to be left at home on my own.
So we walk into this supermarket and the Soviet lady sort of walks in, stops for a second, then walks through the one-way gates and stops again. And then she bursts into tears.
Diplomat life is hard on partners - so tears in the opening days aren’t that uncommon. My mum pulls her to the side and starts saying the usual (“I remember when we started”, “it’ll get better” bla bla) and the Soviet lady says basically “you don’t understand! I’ve never, ever seen so much choice and food and my life”.
She wasn’t crying because she had left home. She was crying because she was realising how fucked up home was - and remember this is someone who was sent out as a diplomat so reasonably well connected at home.
The West had a reason for its exceptionalism back then. Compared to many places it still does. In others, of course, we need to wake the fuck up - China is a great example, where there is definitely no cause for a feeling of exceptionalism. Russia, oh boy, yes we can still feel exceptional.
Go on then, dismiss me with your hexbear memes and be gone.
Man it’s a good thing homeless people in America get to enjoy all that choice!
Give me a break. No system is perfect and the discussion isn’t about perfection vs horror. It’s about a series of tradeoffs and the tradeoffs done in the west broadly resulting in better outcomes, on average, for the population there than they did in the Soviet Union. For China nowadays, I’m less certain. Definitely in the big Tier 1 cities, life is on par with Western outcomes, for some better for some worse.
I’m just saying, it’s ironic to use that example of a diplomat as opposed to how many people live paycheck to paycheck barely able to make ends meet or are actually homeless, I doubt those people are crying in joy when they walk into a Walmart
I think you’ve missed my point entirely - that could be my fault.
The example illustrates that even for those well-connected enough in the Soviet Union the sight of a western supermarket was enough to make them weep (this was ‘88).
I brought this example up to address the false belief that people in Russia weren’t all that impressed with western products (like McDonalds) back when the Soviet Union existed.
I don’t know how you’re managing to connect that with how people live today and their experience of walking into Walmart.
Finally, this didn’t take place in Harrods but in ICA in Sweden. Hardly a luxury shop - just an average supermarket.
The idea of communism (extremely simplified) everyone has the means to live and people at “the top” don’t get special privilege on that, obviously almost all actual implementations turn into dictatorships so the point is somewhat moot, however the fact a well connected diplomat in a communist country had to live in the same conditions as other non-well connected people would be a positive, not a negative, they’d see and hopefully be able to improve the lives of everyone as they understand what it’s like.
Compare that to a majority of the rich and powerful in America, they’re so ridiculously disconnected from the average experience that they literally do not understand at all what it’s like for those with less.
Well, if you need to compare a diplomat to a homeless person, then that is a pretty big self own.
In what way?
And that Soviet lady’s name? Albert Einstein!
Liberal theory is just bullshit anecdotes on top of bullshit anecdotes.
Bullshit
Well, there’s no use sitting here arguing about this, is there. I know the truth hurts, so it’s easy to reject.
What sort of nonsense response is that? Anyone can poop out any anecdote they like to support their position and say “I know it hurts so it’s easy to reject”.
Who’s truth?
This is unironically funny as hell. Great copypasta, I’ll add it to my collection.
You’re missing the point. For BK to operate in Russia means dollars flowing into Russia, because BK needs to buy Rubles. Dollars that Russia needs to buy arms on the international market, because nobody is accepting Rubles.
Except BK is an American company. They wouldn’t operate in Russia if they weren’t making a profit. So their net effect is to have money flowing out of Russia.
This is true. However, if I owned BK, I’d see this as an amazing business strategy, although a quite unethical one (but as we can see, multi million+ dollar companies aren’t the most ethical either way). I mean, now the literal government has an interest for it to stay in business, they may even start to promote the brand.
Many words considering no point.
Let them.
Don’t be upset
Commies say the dumbest shit
I thought burger king staying was the punishment
Burger King will never see a single cent from me, fucking traitors
where did you shop while the united states was occupying iraq and afghanistan?
Around these parts, we salute the McDonald’s flag flying over Guantanamo Bay.
o7
You people throw around ‘traitor’ so much its nearly lost all meaning.
relax they sell burgers not cruise missiles
also new tagline
You know BK still operates in the US, right?
And?
If operating in bad countries is a reason to have your little boycott, then not operating in Russia won’t budge the dial because BK will keep operating in the US irrespective.
Sure… but he wants to stop giving them money… that still is on US doesn’t matter.
If operating in bad countries is a reason to have your little boycott, then not operating in Russia won’t budge the dial because BK will keep operating in the US irrespective.
Ok I get it now… you are saying US is a bad country. I didn’t catch on that.
I am also saying that, if one is concerned with “Does BK exist in bad countries?”, the Russia question is irrelevant because BK will always be in the bad country that is the US, making its specific actions in any other context moot as the question is already answered.
Hehehehe
So brave
The consumer feels betrayed by the slophouse!
i refuse to believe this isn’t a bit
Extend that to all companies and capitalism is over party.
Good.
I simply don’t get this mentality. I’m sure you do realize, that companies such as Microsoft still operate in Russia. You think all people over there are running Linux? Aside from how unbelievably stupid your take is, guess they are traitors too. But you’ll still keep using their OS and Office suite for millenia to come.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if Russia did have larger linux adoption. It’s not unheard of for countries to be (in my opinion baselessly) suspicious that microsoft contains american spyware.
They surely do, but none of the Russians or Ukrainians I know have ever heard of Linux.
looking into it there is a russian version of linux that is widely used by the Russian government and it’s trying to push wider civilian adoption
That’s honestly great! Now we need the same here in the EU.
Edit: sleepy brain wrote Europe instead of EU
Russia is in Europe
Most of it is in Asia but I agree, should have phrased that better. European Union is what I meant :)
MS stopped selling licenses last year and blocked the ones operating this year (non renewal). But I get your point, only not all the big companies stayed
What exactly did they block? You can still buy any Microsoft product in Russia, your online subscriptions are still billed in rubles, you can pay them from any card Visa or Mastercard accept. As of now there are no problems at all with Microsoft products in Russia.
Sorry, don’t get your point. A company may say one thing like Burger King said they will dump Russia. The reality at least currently with both Burger King and Microsoft is another thing.
Since I’m not living in Russia I can’t tell you what exactly is happening there but I can read what they told the world (with no one telling it’s false)
You’re assuming Russians pay for MS licenses
(Note: I’m not saying that’s a bad thing, just that piracy is rampant in Russia)
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Uncritical support for FitGirl. Unless they’re a transphobe like Empress, I guess.
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MS stopped selling licenses last year
That must be why they finally killed hwidgen
