over 400 hungry jack's stores were in australia after its first decade of operation.
over 400 hungry jack's stores were in australia after its first decade of operation.
how many hungry jack's stores in australia after its first decade of operation?
over 400
when burger king moved to expand its operations into australia, it found that its business name was already trademarked by a takeaway food shop in adelaide, south australia. as a result, burger king provided the australian franchisee, jack cowin, with a list of possible alternative names derived from pre-existing trademarks already registered by burger king and its then corporate parent pillsbury that could be used to name the australian restaurants. cowin selected the "hungry jack" brand name, one of pillsbury's u.s. pancake mixture products, and slightly changed the name to a possessive form by adding an apostrophe and "s" to form the new name "hungry jack's". the first australian franchise of burger king corporation was established in innaloo, perth on 18 april 1971, under the auspices of cowin's new company hungry jack's pty ltd. by the end of its first decade of operation, hungry jack's had expanded to 26 stores in three states. in october 1981, the company opened its first new south wales store in the sydney central business district on the corner of liverpool and george street. in 1986, the chain entered victoria by purchasing 11 stores from the ailing wendy's hamburger chain, later converting them to hungry jack's.
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several more disputes arose between the parties in the early 1990s, revolving around burger king's desire to enter the australian market directly. in 1992 burger king considered buying out hungry jack's and its stores, either itself, through a third party or through a joint venture, but hungry jack's rejected these proposals. in 1993 burger king commenced negotiations with shell to open burger king outlets in some of shell's service stations — initially including but later excluding hungry jack's from the discussions — which culminated in the opening of seven outlets from 1995. during this time a senior hungry jack's executive was leaking secret information to burger king about hungry jack's internal operations, and advising burger king of methods it might employ to force hungry jack's to sell out its business to burger king.
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