 In the United States , approximately 90 percent of Burger King 's franchises have banded together to form the Burger King National Franchise Association ( BKNFA or NFA ) . The 900 @-@ member group is based in Atlanta , Georgia , and is designed to provide what the group calls Franchisee Relations Advocacy . It acts as a corporate negotiator that mediates with corporate @-@ franchise disputes , as a government lobbying group to deal with issues that effect the fast @-@ food industry as a whole , and it provides group health , property and casualty insurance . In 2001 , the group announced a plan to purchase Burger King from then @-@ parent Diageo after the company put forth a plan to float approximately 20 percent of BKC on the NYSE . The NFA believed that any money raised from the issue would not be put into helping bolster the then flagging BK , but would instead end up being used to help Diageo bolster its liquor brands . The deal collapsed when the NFA was unable to put together an acceptable financing package . 
