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...“A burger is humble but we all have such strong feelings about it. The way you take your burger is so personal. There are so many layers.”...
...It owns or runs several familiar outlets including Upper Crust, Starbucks and Burger King....
...Smart reads The LSE’s PE pitch The London Stock Exchange thinks it has found the key to getting out of its rut, the FT’s Helen Thomas writes: private equity....
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...Unlike his previous moves on companies such as eBay and Motorola, Icahn is not in this one for the money, having bought just 200 shares in the burger chain....
...Five Guys, a fast-growing burger chain, has agreed to open half a dozen since the start of this year and plans more in the next months....
...Meanwhile, Burger King’s 530-site UK business on Thursday said it could close up to 10 per cent of its restaurants, putting 1,600 jobs at risk....
...“This means when we go to McDonald’s and see people buying a burger, they actually get a very small percentage of that money.”...
...Buying electric cars and Impossible Burgers will not be enough to curb a global crisis. Best of the rest What I’ve been reading elsewhere Can the world’s strangest mammal survive?...
...There's no suggestion of a foreign hand here, but Helen Warrell reports security experts are warning that outdated campaigning rules, restrictive data regulations and a failure to publicise the dangers of...
...Helen Warrell is the FT’s public policy correspondent....
...Much has gone well: Small Island (adapted for stage by Helen Edmundson) will join the award-winning Follies in the Olivier repertoire....
...And Britain’s “three Dames” — Maggie Smith, Judi Dench and Helen Mirren — are always busy. “Oddly Olivia Colman wasn’t seen as a pre-sale name,” says Morley....
...Stripped-back, edgy, low-key and local — just what a taqueria should be. 184 Hackney Road, E2 7QL; badsports.co.uk Ed Smith is a food writer and author of rocketandsquash.com Photograph: Helen Cathcart...
...Ramsay’s mother Helen is a former nurse; his late father Gordon had various jobs, overshadowed by an addiction to alcohol....
...The menu was a feast of chilli burgers, veggie burgers, toasted cheese sandwiches and smoothies, with brownies for dessert....
...He said this was “akin to Byron Burger having to ask permission of McDonald’s to open up a new restaurant”....
...@TimHayward tim.hayward@ft.com Photograph: Helen Cathcart...
...As a Capetonian schoolboy I licked envelopes for Eglin in the election that put the Progressive party leader among a handful able to join the doughty Helen Suzman on the opposition benches....
...Instead there is kangaroo meat in some of the nearby burgers....
...His career took off as a floor manager at Burger King in London’s Piccadilly Circus....
...Burger King has struggled in recent years against a behemoth of a rival in McDonald’s, the fast-food leader, and a resurgent Wendy’s, which recently overtook it for second place in the “burger wars” for...
...The question of whether officers will co-ordinate a national crackdown on burger burglars and steak stealers, however, remains to be seen....
...In the Burger King deal, the parties agreed to proceed using a dual-track process, now known in some circles as a “double whopper”....
...An investment fund backed by three of Brazil’s foremost businessmen is in advanced talks to buy Burger King, in a deal that would see the US burger chain return to private ownership for the second time in...
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