The Fast food chain Burger King is planning on opening a new version of it's restaurants called The Whopper Bar. The restaurants will sell a wider variety of the signature hamburger, including versions that are not typically available in the chain's traditional restaurants. The concept was inspired about four years ago when a Burger King executive visited one of the chain's restaurants in Germany that had knocked out the back of the restaurant and created a bar section.
Fast Facts:
- Burger King is the No. 2 hamburger chain in the US
- Whopper Bar menu may include as many as 10 burgers
- Ticker: BKC (NYSE)
- Founded in 1954
- Revenue: $2.48 billion (2006)
- Staff: 340,000
- CEO: John Chidsey
- There are 11,220 Burger Kings in 61 countries
