Burger King® Fun Facts
The Whopper® Sandwich: a quarter-pound flame-broiled all-beef patty, .5 ounces of onions, .75 ounces of lettuce, two slices of tomato, four pickles, .5 ounces of ketchup and .75 ounces of mayonnaise on a toasted 5-inch bun covered with sesame seeds. Make that exactly 275 sesame seeds.
The Whopper® Sandwich was created in 1957 by the founders of Burger King®, David Edgerton and James McLamore, in the original Burger King® restaurant in Miami, Florida.
It sold for 37 cents. Times have changed, but the Whopper® hasn't. It's pretty much the same as it was in 1957 with one small difference. The bun has sesame seeds now.
Each year, Burger King® sells 1.3 billion Whopper® Sandwiches in its 11,200 restaurants in all 50 states and 69 countries around the globe. Every day, over 4 million Whopper® Sandwiches are sold - that’s 40 semi-truck loads of beef patties!
½ million pounds of bacon are used every month in Burger King® restaurants, and 1.7 billion servings of French fries are sold annually!
The Whopper® is one of the most prominent, closely defined and associated signature products at any of the fast-food hamburger restaurants. But when you think Burger King®, you think the Whopper®. They're one and the same, really.
You can Have It Your Way® — really 221,184 different ways if you mix and match all the ingredients. About two-thirds of Whoppers are customized according to customer request.
The No. 1 special order is "with cheese." Forty-five percent of customers ask for American cheese on their Whopper® Sandwiches.
The No. 1 "hold" is onions. Twenty-two percent of customers are concerned about their breath when they get back from lunch.
You can have it your way in foreign countries, too.
In Israel, Burger King® has the Garlic Whopper®, with garlic-laced mayo. In Australia, Whopper® Sandwiches come with a fried egg, beetroot and bacon. In Japan, teriyaki replaces ketchup. In Germany, they have the Angry Whopper®, with kicked-up onions, pepper jack cheese and spicy sauce.
Here at home, the Whopper® is more than a burger, it's a part of American pop culture.
Recently, the Whopper® Sandwich became the first food product to be immortalized at Madame Tussauds wax museum in Times Square in New York City. On the other hand, unlike the figures of celebrities, the wax Whopper® looks exactly like the real thing.
On average, each Burger King® restaurant sells 353 Whoppers a day. There's a BK in Selma, Ala., that sells 688 Whoppers a day — tops in the chain.
The No. 1 day for pushing Whopper® Sandwiches out the door? New Year's Eve.
