The US chain Burger King couldn't use their own brand in Australia, as the name had been trademarked by takeaway chain based in Adelaide. The Hungry Jack's brand was established instead, and the first store opened in Innaloo, Perth on 18 April 1971.
As well as being a proud Aussie company Hungry Jack's is the master Australian franchise of the Burger King Corporation.
But in 1966, an American immigrant registered the 'Burger King' trademark which had already expanded to 17 locations across the country. Unable to buy the trademark, Cowin and Burger King moved ahead with the name “Hungry Jack's” instead. The first Hungry Jack's would open on April 18th, 1971.
Trans-Pacific Foods administered the chain's 81 locations until September 2003 when the new management team of Burger King Corporation reached an agreement with Hungry Jack's Pty Ltd. to rebrand the existing Burger King locations to Hungry Jack's and make Hungry Jack's Pty the sole master franchisee of both brands.
Burger King Is Hungry Jack's in Australia.
It was chosen by the Australian franchisee, Jack Cowin, when he found the Burger King name was unavailable in this country. Cowin, a Canadian by birth, was no stranger to the fast food business.
ADELAIDE was the original home of Burger King in Australia. We take a look back at the history of the much-loved chain in these photos from the archives. 1/20US born, Adelaide entreprenuer Don Dervan owned and operated a chain of “Burger King” restaurants in Australia in the 1960s. The Darlington outlet is shown here.
McDonald's first opened in Australia in 1971, and it wasn't long before the locals started calling it "Macca's" - a nickname that has stuck ever since. There are several theories about how this came about, but the most likely explanation is that it was simply a shortened form of "Macdonald's".
Hungry Jack's slowly gained popularity in the Australian market, and more and more people became more familiar with their brand name. Hungry Jack's only sells two of the Burger King Trademark products, and they are the Whopper and the TenderCrisp sandwiches.
In November 1996, Burger King purported to terminate the agreement between itself and Hungry Jack's, on the basis that Hungry Jack's had not opened the required number of stores.
A Hungry Jack's store in Perth has stirred up controversy by posting a sign on its front door announcing a ban on people under the age of 17. The sign, posted on the glass doors of the chain's Whitford store, has gone viral on social media.
Burger King Corporation, restaurant company specializing in flame-broiled fast-food hamburgers. It is the second largest hamburger chain in the United States, after McDonald's, and one of the most successful brands in fast-food history.
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Jack Cowin (/ˈkaʊɪn/, born 13 July 1942) is a Canadian-Australian businessman and entrepreneur with a long-term involvement in franchised fast food chains in Australia and Canada.
In 2021, Wendy's built a pop-up restaurant in Sydney to see what Australian consumers thought of the brand. “That was a very big success. We had great fans, people loved our signature items. We sold our Dave's Single [burger] and our signature frosty dessert,” Ms Pringle said.
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Mr Cowin sued, and Burger King spent years in litigation, culminating in the $45 million court judgment in his favour. By 2003, the fast food behemoth threw in the towel, announcing that it was ceding the Australian market to the Hungry Jack's brand and dissolving the relationship. It was an extraordinary victory.
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“[1] An application has been made for approval of a single enterprise agreement known as the Hungry Jack's National Enterprise Agreement 2019 (Agreement). The application was made pursuant to s. 185 of the Fair Work Act 2009 (Act).
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