In England, two entrepreneurs realized they would have an easier time selling hamburgers out of their food truck if they gave away free porn to anyone who spent more than five pounds on hamburgers and beer. To sweeten the pot, porn movies even played inside the van, so hamburgers-and-beer-and-porn lovers could watch the sexy videos while waiting in line for their meat. Un-shockingly, the folks who lived in the area were not amused by the van’s presence over the course of two weeks, and the meat van got busted in an undercover sting operation. At that point, “the caravan was seized.” Holy Hamburglers! “It is unbelievable customers were being offered porn DVDs with their beer and burgers at an outlet that did not even have the necessary licenses,” an officer noted. One imagines it would be a challenge to get a license to sell hamburgers and and porn. So, no more burger-and-porn van for you.

IAMI - (Business Wire) Burger King Corp. (NYSE:BKC) has reached a significant milestone for the brand with the grand opening of its 12,000^th restaurant located in Beijing’s Joy City. The opening supports the company’s overall growth strategy and exemplifies its commitment to strengthening the BURGER KING® brand presence around the world.

“We are committed to profitably growing our brand and diversifying our global restaurant portfolio,” said John Chidsey, chairman and chief executive officer, Burger King Corp. “The opening of our 12,000^th restaurant represents a significant milestone for our brand. The BURGER KING® system grew more than 3 percent on a net new unit basis in fiscal 2009 – a growth rate at the top of the industry – and we are on target to open an additional 250 to 300 net new restaurants during this fiscal year.”

The 12,000^th BURGER KING® restaurant is located in Beijing’s Joy City and is the first BK® restaurant in downtown Beijing’s busy Xidan area. The opening represents another step forward in the brand’s growth and development in the Chinese market following its entry into Shanghai, Nanjing, Hangzhou, Xiamen and Suzhou.

“The opening of BURGER KING’s® 12,000^th restaurant, which is located in Beijing, demonstrates our commitment to expanding our presence in China and throughout the entire Asia Pacific region,” said Peter Tan, president, Asia-Pacific, Burger King Corp. “We opened more restaurants in the region in 2009 than during the last four years combined and we plan to open even more new restaurants this year. And with only 25 BK® restaurants currently operating in China, we have significant growth potential for our brand in this particular market.”

Burger King Corp. is celebrating this milestone opening just weeks after the introduction of Asia’s first WHOPPER^TM Bar in Singapore’s popular lifestyle precinct, Clark Quay. The WHOPPER^TM Bar is a completely new, enhanced spin-off concept of the traditional BURGER KING® restaurant with a crisp, modern, bar-like look and feel inspired by the flame-broiled WHOPPER® sandwich. A second WHOPPER^TM

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