 In December 2013 , Burger King returned to Finland after three decades of absence . The first restaurant , located on Mannerheimintie in central Helsinki , instantly proved so popular that for every day since its opening , people have had to queue in front of the restaurant to get in , sometimes for over half an hour . The only exception so far has been Christmas time , when the restaurant was closed . According to Mikko Molberg , the leader of the Finnish Burger King franchise , the restaurant has attracted over 2000 customers on every single day , which has surprised the restaurant employees and the franchise owners . The long queues have been extensively covered and ridiculed in social media , comparing them to people queuing in front of a McDonald 's restaurant in Moscow , Russia in the early 1990s , and contrasting them with the nearly nonexistent queues to Burger King restaurants in Stockholm , Sweden . 
