Burger King Worldwide, Inc.
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Hoping to increase sales and traffic in their restaurants, fast-food and fast-casual operators are cranking up the menu innovation to produce items that stray from the gastronomic norm.
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*Online shopping booms in Turkey. ISTANBUL, Jan 16- Swiss venture capitalist Klaus Hommels, an early-stage investor in Skype and Facebook, hadn't thought much about Turkey or its e-commerce potential when he met Sina Afra in a Burger King at a Berlin airport in 2008.. "Turkey is a very young and viral nation," he said.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan 11- Massachusetts has pulled violent arcade games from its highway service plazas after a family raised concerns they might offend residents of neighboring Connecticut, which last month witnessed the second-deadliest school shooting in U.S. history.
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JAKARTA, Dec 21- When Barack Obama visited Indonesia in 2010, he tucked in to a steaming bowl of meatball broth, known as bakso, served to remind him of his childhood in Jakarta. Maybe we'll have bakso tomorrow, "said Gerang, sitting next to a chained up soup tureen at his empty bakso stand near Obama's old school in the exclusive Jakarta district of Menteng.
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Either they have already done all their shopping, or they have completed none of it, a Reuters/ Ipsos poll shows. "Men tend to keep their list smaller and concise, as wives already took care of the majority of gifts," said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research for Thomson Reuters.
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Either they have already done all their shopping, or they have completed none of it, a Reuters/ Ipsos poll shows. "Men tend to keep their list smaller and concise, as wives already took care of the majority of gifts," said Jharonne Martis, director of consumer research for Thomson Reuters.
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Dec 10- McDonald's Corp's sales at established restaurants rose more than expected in November as a renewed emphasis on low-priced menu options, such as $1 Sausage McMuffins and coffee, helped the company bounce back from a rare decline in October, it said on Monday.
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Dec 10- McDonald's Corp's sales at established restaurants rose more than expected in November as a renewed emphasis on low-priced food helped the company bounce back from a rare decline in October, it said on Monday.
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McDonald's reported a stronger-than-expected 2.4 percent rise in November sales, helped by strength in breakfast in the U.S. and lower-priced offerings in Europe.
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Dec 10- McDonald's Corp reported on Monday a stronger-than-expected 2.4 percent rise in November sales at established restaurants, helped by demand for breakfast in the United States and lower-priced offerings in Europe.
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According to the regulator, the former banker, Igor Cornelsen, 64, prodded his broker, Waldyr Da Silva Prado Neto, for tips after Prado, who then worked at Wells Fargo& Co, learned from a customer that Burger King was up for sale. Burger King agreed on Sept. 2, 2010, to be bought by private equity firm 3 G Capital Partners Ltd for $3.26 billion, or $24 per share.
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According to the regulator, the former banker, Igor Cornelsen, 64, prodded his broker, Waldyr Da Silva Prado Neto, for tips after Prado, who then worked at Wells Fargo& Co, had learned from a customer that Burger King was up for sale. Burger King agreed on Sept. 2, 2010, to be bought by private equity firm 3 G Capital Partners Ltd for $3.26 billion, or $24 per share.
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NEW YORK/ LOS ANGELES, Nov 29- Fast-food restaurant employees, many of whom work for minimum wage, protested in New York City on Thursday demanding higher pay and the right to form a union as part of a movement called "Fast Food Forward." It is being billed as the largest attempt to unionize fast-food workers in the United States, where the minimum wage is $7.25 per hour.
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Nov 29- Fast-food restaurant employees protested in New York City on Thursday, demanding higher pay and the right to form a union- the latest attempt by lower-wage workers in the United States to increase their compensation.
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Oct 29- Burger King Worldwide Inc turned in stronger-than-expected U.S. and Canadian restaurant sales for the latest quarter- when rival McDonald's Corp posted its worst quarterly restaurant sales growth in nine years.
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*Burger King 3rd- quarter sales fall 26 pct. Oct 29- Burger King Worldwide Inc reported a better-than-expected profit on Monday as new items on the fast-food chain's menu and accompanying advertising campaigns helped boost same-restaurant sales in the United States and Canada.
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NEW YORK- Hurricane Sandy, the monster storm bearing down on the U.S. East Coast, strengthens after hundreds of thousands move to higher ground, public transport shuts down and the U.S. stock market suffers its first weather-related closure in 27 years (STORM-SANDY/ moved, pix, tv, graphic, by Daniel Trotta, 910 words). Politics puts Italy, Spain back in market focus.
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Burger King Worldwide Inc. reports quarterly financial results. Baidu Inc., the Chinese Internet company, reports quarterly financial results. Avon Products Inc. reports quarterly financial results.
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NEW YORK-- Burger King Worldwide Inc. reports its third-quarter results Monday, which should give investors another snapshot on the chain's efforts to refresh its outdated image in the U.S. while expanding overseas. In April, Burger King unveiled its biggest ever menu revamp, along with a star-studded advertising campaign.
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NEW YORK-- McDonald's will start selling bags of ground coffee at its restaurants in Canada next month, a move that could spread to other regions around the world if successful. John Betts, president of McDonald's Canada, also noted in an interview that McDonald's has a history of taking hit products from specific regions and expanding them globally.