Burger King traces its roots to Insta-Burger King, a restaurant started in Jacksonville, Florida, in 1953, which used a special oven for cooking hamburgers. When that business ran into financial trouble, two of its franchisees in Miami, James McLamore and David Edgerton, took it over in 1954 and renamed it Burger King. They introduced the flame-grilled Whopper in 1957, which became the chain's signature product. Pillsbury bought the business in 1967, and ownership changed several times afterward. Since 2014 it has been part of Restaurant Brands International, and it is one of the largest hamburger chains in the world.
Before and after
- from 18 August 1953 to 19 August 19531953 Iranian coup d'état
- 19 August 1953Construction of Yad Vashem
- from 1954 to 1964Khrushchev thaw
- 1954Publication of The Lord of the Rings
- 1954Founding of Burger King
- 1954Founding of Bank of Israel
- 1954Construction of Wien-Schwechat Airport
- 1954Geneva Conference
- from 1954 to 1968Civil rights movement
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The era
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