Posted on 06/05/2009 1:19:17 PM PDT by markomalley
A row between the fast food giant Burger King and one of its major franchise owners has erupted over roadside signs proclaiming "global warming is baloney".
The franchisee, a Memphis-based company called the Mirabile Investment Corporation (MIC) that owns more than 40 Burger Kings across Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi, has described Burger King as acting "kinda like cockroaches" over the controversy. MIC says it does not believe Burger King has the authority to make it take the signs down.
The dispute began to sizzle last week, when a local newspaper reporter in Memphis, Tennessee, noticed the signs outside two restaurants in the city and contacted the corporation to establish if the message represented its official viewpoint. Burger King's headquarters in Miami said it did not, adding that it had ordered MIC to take the signs down.
But a few days later readers of the Memphis paper said they had seen about a dozen Burger King restaurants across the state displaying the signs and that some had yet to be taken down. Media attempts to contact MIC to establish why it was taking an apparently defiant stance were rebuffed, but the Guardian managed to grill MIC's marketing president, John McNelis.
"I would think [Burger King] would run from any form of controversy kinda like cockroaches when the lights get turned on," said Mr McNelis. "I'm not aware of any direction that they gave the franchisee and I don't think they have the authority to do it."
McNelis added: "The [restaurant] management team can put the message up there if they want to. It is private property and here in the US we do have some rights.
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
there's a pic over on puffington host.
Man-made-global-warming is a hoax and the new religion of secularists, atheists and the lunatic left!
Be Ever Vigilant!
Would you like a side order of climate denial with your flame-broiled Triple Whopper? If so, then you need to get yourself over to Tennessee where a number of Burger King franchises in the US state that gave us Al Gore have been displaying "Global Warming is Baloney" signs outside their fast-food restaurants.
The only ones in denial, are the ones who won't face up to the reality that global warming is not man made, and that it is cyclical just all weather conditions.
BTTT
I am SO sick and tired of all this “Go Green” crap I’d be willing to pay for delivery of a Whopper Meal Deal from any of these stores just as a sign of gratitude.
I’ll be in Memphis next week. If I see one of these signs, I’m pulling in and having something to eat even if the food isn’t all that healthy.
Poor choice of words for a restaurant operator.
I’ll bet the Miami group hands out “earth day” propganda with the kid meals - and we all have to accept that BECAUSE it’s liberal and liberal is OK. While “conservative” is NOT OK. It’s that simple? And if it is, Burger King is on my boycott list ...
The King claims sovereign immunity...
You have rights for now... But give the 'Bama a couple more years and a couple more Supreme Court picks, and surely such antisocial messages will be against the law.
lol...Right On!
Might I suggest any FReeper business owners with marquee’s follow suit and start the “Global Warming Is Baloney” national campaign.
That sounds like an excellent suggestion.
As far as I’m concerned she can live out her days or choose to be executed.
That’s far more of a choice than she gave her victims.
Well, Oxidize my hide and Car bon mot.
The roundup is nearly complete, watch for an uptick in the number of laid-off cowboys as we head out on the trail.
No food is healthy, you’ve got to kill it to get it on your plate.
they could add and we don’t serve baloney here!
bttt
Or, closer to home, trying to appease the "volcano god" (read: Mother Gaia) by "sacrificing virgins" (read: cap-n-trade and other greenomania).
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