{"id":26698,"date":"2012-01-19T01:15:21","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/countingpips.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/19\/burger-king-tests-out-delivery-service\/"},"modified":"2012-01-19T01:15:21","modified_gmt":"2012-01-19T06:15:21","slug":"burger-king-tests-out-delivery-service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/19\/burger-king-tests-out-delivery-service\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger King tests out delivery service"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"grabDiv1767162\"><object id=\"GrabPlayer1767162\" width=\"540\" height=\"300\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" align=\"middle\" data=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v1e46276dc350f18e91495ef84b37a2ab0fe41ec4&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"high\"\/><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"always\"\/><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"\/><param name=\"menu\" value=\"false\"\/><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/player.grabnetworks.com\/swf\/GrabOSMFPlayer.swf?id=1767162&#038;content=v1e46276dc350f18e91495ef84b37a2ab0fe41ec4&#038;tgt=grabnetworks\"\/><\/object><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>The operator of 7,500 fast-food restaurants in the U.S. and Canada is trying out delivery service at some stores in Virginia and Maryland as a way to boost sales, according to a report by Bloomberg. Burger King Holdings Inc. is offering delivery service from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in select stores in those states. Burger King&#8217;s website says deliveries cost $2.00 and there is a minimum order of $8.00 to $10.00, depending on the market. The report says that 3G Capital Inc., a New York-based private-equity firm, bought Burger King for about $3.93 billion in 2010. It goes on to say that revenue rose 1.4% to $608.1 million in the three months ending September 30, compared with the year before.<\/p>\n<p><img src='http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/19\/0_czqy0axb_thumb.jpg' \/><\/p>\n<p><!--post_img[http:\/\/cache.thenewsroom.com\/financial_news_network\/2012\/01\/19\/0_czqy0axb_preview.jpg]--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The operator of 7,500 fast-food restaurants in the U.S. and Canada is trying out delivery service at some stores in Virginia and Maryland as a way to boost sales, according to a report by Bloomberg. Burger King Holdings Inc. is offering delivery service from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. in select stores in those states. &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/2012\/01\/19\/burger-king-tests-out-delivery-service\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Burger King tests out delivery service&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26698"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26698\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.investmacro.com\/fx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}