Bye Bye Burger King

[craig finton]

I wondered what was going on with Burger King. Now we know and another Marina based business bites the dust. Hang on a minute - I'm having a vision....

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/business/bailiffs-called-in-to-burger-king-on-hartlepool-marina-1-6695522

[DRiddle]

When a restaurant chain that makes around a quarter of a billion pounds a year globally, is forced to shut up shop in Hartlepool due to bailiffs, you know our town is still in the mire economically.

I don't claim to be Warren Buffet, but I'm pretty sure Hartlepool won't dig itself out of a hole if our financial strategy is being decided by a benefits clerk and a driving instructor.

#PrayforHartlepool

This is definitely not a good time for councillors to be looking for a pay rise.

[pensionater]

Do Burger King do franchises ?.If so it's probably down to poor individual management,or the fact they have McDonalds across the road.

[DRiddle]

They do indeed do franchises. In fact, their corporate strategy at global level over the last few years has been to off load a lot of restaurants onto franchisee's (presumably) to help combat the economic downturn.

The idea being I guess that with a franchise the financial risk is off loaded onto the franchise holder.

Either way, the point remains that it hardly smacks of economic prosperity when a food outlet that sells burgers from 99p a go shuts up shop in a town where the most buoyant retail outlets sell stuff for £1.

Still, chin up eh?

A Ferris Wheel should sort it all out...

[pensionater]

So Kipperdip because i'm not blaming the Council i'm wrong again.I don't mean to be blunt but why don't you  go f**k yerself.