Name: Mohammed Al-Arbash ID: 2015-00109 Course: Arab culture The globalization of burger king This essay will be focusing on the burger king restaurants that have opened in Kuwait. We will be covering the requirements the restaurant needed to start-up in Kuwait and the adjustments to adapt, the changes and complications they faced to succeed in the Kuwaiti culture. Also, we will state the primary location on where the business first opened and the year it was founded in Kuwait. In addition, we will briefly mention the Islamic customs it had to place to gain clients. Burger king is the second most popular fast food chain restaurant in the world. The business started in the USA in 1954. The business was founded by the following Individuals: David Edgerton and James McLamore. The first headquarter was in Miami-Dade County, Florida in the United States. In 1959, the business started expanding their restaurant inside the US. In 1969, the growing fast food restaurant chain started going out the region such as Canada, Australia, Europe, etc. In the 1970’s, it was the most prominent year the company has experienced. It was the golden age of fast food specially burgers and fries, which are their main courses, the restaurants business revolved around this type of food that they served. In early 1980’s, the restaurant started to lose customers because of the medical issues with fast food diets which clearly began causing obesity and heart attacks. In 2011, the company started a Show
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