Anyone boycotting Burger King?

[woolldog]

I eat there occasionally, but will stop going. Probably better for my health anyway, but I like fast food.


NEW YORK -- Burger King is getting whopped over its plan to avoid U.S. taxes by fleeing to Canada.

People flooded the fast-food chain’s Facebook page on Monday with threats of a boycott after the company announced talks to merge with Canadian coffee and doughnut chain Tim Hortons. The combined company would be headquartered in Canada.

Burger King is just the latest American company to attempt a so-called tax inversion -- where a bigger U.S. company buys a smaller foreign firm in a country with a lower tax rate, renounces its U.S. corporate citizenship and then reincorporates in the other nation. Politicians and pundits have said the moves amount to little more than unpatriotic ploys to avoid paying taxes. The corporate tax rate in the U.S. is 35 percent, the highest in the world. Canada's is about 15 percent.

"Move to Canada to avoid paying taxes and I will never darken the door of a Burger King again," Mike Gee, of Magnolia, Arkansas, wrote in a comment. "Does corporate greed in this country ever end?"

Radina Russell, a Burger King spokeswoman, declined to comment.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/08/25/burger-king-boycott_n_5710695.html

[Z_California]

1. I've already been boycotting Burger King

For serving pure shit.

[yeoman6987]

52. Nope

Went yesterday. Does everything have to be a boycott? Headquarters is going to Canada. There are still tons of places here to eat. Not the entire chain is going.

[Erich Bloodaxe BSN]

2. The problem I run into with boycotts

is that I generally already don't patronize the company by the time a boycott shows up. I pretty much stopped going to burger king quite a while ago - a decade, two decades, long enough that I really can't recall just how long it's been.

[craigmatic]

3. I can't they have a veggie burger and I'm vegitarian

[RebelOne]

14. I am vegetarian also, and you can buy veggie burgers at your local supermarket. n/t

[Niceguy1]

26. not hot and ready

To go...which is the whole point of fast food.....

[mucifer]

32. I'm vegan so I couldn't before and this new Canada thing

just adds to it.

[MADem]

53. Yes you can.

Go buy a salad at Wendy's. And a baked potato. And fries.

Or go to Subway and get one of their veggie subs.

You have options.

[Xipe Totec]

4. I would if I could.

But the truth is I don't custom there.

Not at Booger King,
Not at Taco Hell,
Not at McDumpster.

[wyldwolf]

5. Yup

Unfortunately my little girl loves it but we'll have to find her another burger fix.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

6. Me

Except most of their restaurants in my area shut down 10 years ago.

[Silent3]

7. I don't eat much there anymore anyway...

...but yes, I'll join in a boycott over this issue.

[jwirr]

8. Ironically I and some of my family ate there on Sunday before we knew about their planned move.

Today I emailed them that would end if they did move.

[TheDebbieDee]

9. I wont be eating there. If Wendy's and Sonic follows, I'll

Have to learn how to cook.

[steve2470]

10. I rarely go there but now I'm never going there nt

[William769]

11. Before anyone goes all apeshit over Buger King's move.

You might want to look at all the other companies that are already doing this (you will be surprised). Just saying.

[woolldog]

16. Name them please.

This Burger King thing is so blatant I can't ignore it. But if there are others, I want to know them

[William769]

20. To wet your whisle, Apple, IBM, Microsoft are all guilty of inversion.

But I will give you a little more.

"In the past three years, 22 American companies have relocated outside U.S. borders, usually through mergers with or purchases of a foreign company. That move, known as a tax inversion, means corporations are no longer subject to American corporate taxes. Jeffrey Brown learns more about the strategy and its effect on the economy from Roberton Williams of the Tax Policy Center."

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/american-companies-change-address-avoid-corporate-taxes/

[steve2470]

22. I think MSFT is still here

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/inside_ms.aspx

They do have two operations centers overseas. If they are based overseas, they are hiding really well.

[William769]

27. Yes they Re here but there structure they have set up as inversion takes them out of many U.S. Taxes

This really ticks me off because over the years I have been one of the very few Microsoft supporters on this website. I still am, but not as much.

[woolldog]

33. ugh

what about google?

[steve2470]

34. Ok, yea they could claim Ireland, Singapore, or a foreign subsidiary....

I'm also one of the supporters, but when they do a clusterfuck like Windows 8, I state my opinion. The taxes thing ticks me off too. It's all legal, yada yada. Apparently Warren Buffett isn't in love with inversion but he's willing to take the heat for it.

[dionysus]

12. hard to boycott a place you haven't eaten at since collehe 15 years ago. at the time, Rodeo Burgers

for a dollar was pretty tasty.

But they couldn't beat the McDonalds .39 cent cheeseburger Wednesdays deal. man we looked forward to Wednesdays, we'd buy huge bags of those things...

[former9thward]

13. Boycotts never work.

People forget about them quickly and even if they don't in a nation of 315 million people there is always people to replace any who boycott.

[NuclearDem]

15. People still go to Burger King?

[woolldog]

17. Stop it!

I knew I would get a lot of food snobs poo-pooing fast food

[FarPoint]

18. Burger King food is slop...

Never eat there...ever! So, that is easy...I do enjoy Tim Hortons occasionally. That will be a little more challenging..

[Smarmie Doofus]

19. No. But I will now. K and R.

[HubertHeaver]

21. I don't know where the nearest Burger King is.

Haven't been to one since Reagan's first administration.

I'll continue to not frequent the restaurant but can't rightly say I am boycotting.

[Demeter]

23. YOu betcha!

[unionthug777]

24. i rarely go there anyways.

I think the last time I went I got a breakfast sandwich.............with BACON....mmmmmmmmmmmmm

bacon

[WillyT]

25. Yep...

& Rec !!!

[MFM008]

28. they have a good chicken salad,

but yes until they get their shit straight im out.

[Horse with no Name]

29. Yep. We don't go there frequently, but every great now and again

we won't go anymore though.

[raven mad]

30. Not hard.

Only one here, on Ft. Wainwright, and it's next to impossible to get on post.

[MerryBlooms]

31. I gave up on BK 15 or so years ago when the local one couldn't

get an order right to save their fucking souls. Shittiest service in town. I haven't bothered with them since and won't.

[Autumn]

35. I haven't even seen a BK in at least 8 years, and I go to the city often.

The food was lousy then I can only imagine how bad it has gotten since there are so few of them.

[nolabear]

36. Gosh, I haven't been to a BK in...thirty years?

You'd think I'd be skinnier with all the junk food I don't eat.

[City Lights]

37. I've haven't eaten there in years, so yes. nt

[malaise]

38. Haven't eaten in a Burger King in decades n/t

[yeoman6987]

54. If this thread is any indication

The boycott will be a bust.....nobody on here goes or hasn't in years. They already lost your patronage. I guess only regulars will have to decide for themselves. I just think it is a bit sad to see that some want the chain to lose business which of course means jobs lost......nobody ever thinks about the average worker in these situations.

[TransitJohn]

39. Yeah, for the last 42 years.

Who eats that shit?

[Aerows]

40. I got food poisoning from a chicken sandwich

the last time I ate there. So no, I don't plan on eating from there ever again, anyway. I know people that worked at Burger King, and they won't eat there, but they also worked at other places and WILL eat from the other fast food restaurants they worked at. That says it all.

[L0oniX]

41. Haven't been to one since the mid 80's.

[gyroscope]

42. Three BKs in my area shut down in last 4 years

I hardly saw any customers when they were open. I used to buy an occasional coffee but never ordered anything else. That was the one good thing. You never had to wait in line. I was always the only one in line at the drive-thru when getting my coffee.

I'm surprised the whole chain hasn't gone out of business. Every BK I pass by always looks deserted.

[Booster]

43. I went on their Facebook page & said if they moved to avoid paying taxes that I would

never set foot in a Burger King again. Everybody should do it.

[trueblue2007]

44. I AM BOYCOTTING

Chris Matthews had a very interesting segment about that today. HE IS TOTALLY AGAINST BURGER KING AS AM I.

[Booster]

45. By the way, below is a quote from their Facebood page. Don't think I believe it though.

" Our headquarters will remain in Miami where we were founded more than 60 years ago and business will continue as usual at our restaurants around the world." This was posted yesterday.

[Ghost in the Machine]

63. Yes, they actually had a "Burger King University" next to Kendale Mall at US 1 & Kendall Drive

where they trained workers and management. I remember it from when I was a kid. Anyone else from Miami remember this??

Peace,

Ghost

[winter is coming]

46. After all those creepy-ass commercials with the guy with the giant king's head, I'm amazed

they have any business left to lose.

[adirondacker]

50. I'm glad I'm not the only one that was Creeped the f#ck out having seen that.

I wonder how much the head of the advertising committee was paid for those disturbing images. "Eat our burgers or the King will visit you in your bedroom"

[JEB]

47. I stop sometimes to take a poop.

Won't eat the food.

[Kablooie]

48. Why on earth would I boycott Burger King?

I never eat there so my boycotting it would be an exercise in futility.

[chrisa]

49. Yes, but not because of this.

If you enjoy eating real food and don't want to drop an atomic bomb in your bowels, going to BK is not your thing.

[Pholus]

51. Haven't been a customer in a while, but certainly won't be back.

And I will make lots of Canadian jokes about anyone unfortunate enough to be eating a "Whopper" in proximity to me.

[Blue Owl]

55. Only for the last 20 years

n/t

[chillfactor]

56. I have not eaten at Burger King for years...

their "food" never has been good and healthy.....full of grease....

[A Little Weird]

57. I don't eat there anyway

But I support boycotting of businesses like this that try to get out of paying taxes.

[Laffy Kat]

58. Yeppers, for the last 20 years. nt

[spanone]

59. never been...

[KamaAina]

60. No.

Haven't been to one in years. On the rare occasions when I settle for fast food, it's the Mickey D's near work. So how can I boycott them?

Note: BK's latest ad campaign is to "change the five-dollar bill". But they don't tell you they're changing it into this!

[Populist_Prole]

61. In a way: I don't eat there anyway. I'm pretty anti-fast food by principle

Not just for the garbage most of it is, but my general opposition to mega-corp "Foodco" type enterprises anyway.

If they're slowly circling the drain as it is, this move will only delay it. Hope they go the way of Curcuit City and the like.

[nilesobek]

62. My son and his fiance worked for Burger King,

before switching jobs in the last year. Burger King is one the most remorseless companies out there. They don't pay their employees enough to live on, have no maternity leave and have to work off the clock all the time.

My son has been making bootleg films from inside Burger King and the conditions are shocking. When the broiler comes on we take pictures from the outside smokestacks as the meat is cooked. Very eerie to see the huge puffs of smoke flowing into the air, the final destination for what's left of the meat. He's thinking about youtube and publishing his film under the title, "my hidden fast food life." So, yes to the boycott.