BURGER KING® Restaurants Among the First to Re-Open in Metro New Orleans

Restaurants Actively Hiring Employees in Gulf Coast Region

(Wednesday, September 14, 2005) - A BURGER KING® franchised restaurant has re-opened in metro New Orleans. Another is expected to open later this afternoon, Sept. 14.

Other area BURGER KING restaurants will reopen at the rate of about one per day.

"Due to an extraordinary team effort and good fortune, a BURGER KING restaurant was the first national quick service restaurant to open in metro New Orleans," said Rich Wyckoff, Burger King Corporation division vice president of the region that includes the Gulf Coast.

The two restaurants -- at 500 West Bank Expressway in Westwego, La., and at 3950 West Bank Expressway in Harvey, La. -- were in some of the locations hardest hit by Hurricane Katrina. Both are providing a limited menu that includes WHOPPER® sandwiches and other burgers, as well as French fries and beverages.

"We're grateful that we've been able to begin serving guests again," said Jerry Comstock, Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Restaurants, owner and operator of the restaurants. "Our challenge in both of these restaurants -- as well as the 20 others we expect to open in the next few weeks -- is limited staffing. We are seeing significantly lower numbers of employees returning to work than we had hoped."

Approximately 200 restaurant-level positions are available in the area.

Burger King Corporation has created a program to source, recruit and hire displaced BURGER KING restaurant employees into new or existing jobs at BURGER KING restaurants in more than 13 cities nationwide, as well as hurricane evacuees in general.

Those interested in securing employment should visit the nearest BURGER KING restaurant in their area or call, toll-free, 877-BKC-4AID for job information. Phone lines will be open from 8 a.m. EDT to 7 p.m. EDT (7 a.m. CT to 6 p.m. CT). This information is also posted on www.bk.com.

About Burger King Corporation
The BURGER KING® system operates more than 11,000 restaurants in all 50 states and in more than 60 countries and territories worldwide. Approximately 90 percent of BURGER KING restaurants are owned and operated by independent franchisees, many of them family-owned operations that have been in business for decades. Burger King Holdings Inc., the parent company, is private and independently owned by an equity sponsor group comprised of Texas Pacific Group, Bain Capital and Goldman Sachs Capital Partners. To learn more about BURGER KING, please visit the company's Web site at http://www.burgerking.com.

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