<P> The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville , Florida , as Insta - Burger King . Inspired by the McDonald brothers ' original store location in San Bernardino , California , the founders and owners , Keith J. Kramer and his wife 's uncle Matthew Burns , began searching for a concept . After purchasing the rights to two pieces of equipment called `` Insta '' machines , the two opened their first stores around a cooking device known as the Insta - Broiler . The Insta - Broiler oven proved so successful at cooking burgers , they required all of their franchises to carry the device . After the original company began to falter in 1959 , it was purchased by its Miami , Florida , franchisees James McLamore and David R. Edgerton . The two initiated a corporate restructuring of the chain ; the first step being to rename the company Burger King . The duo ran the company as an independent entity for eight years , eventually expanding to over 250 locations in the United States , when they sold it to the Pillsbury Company in 1967 . </P>
<P> The predecessor to what is now the international fast food restaurant chain Burger King was founded in 1953 in Jacksonville , Florida , as Insta - Burger King . Inspired by the McDonald brothers ' original store location in San Bernardino , California , the founders and owners , Keith J. Kramer and his wife 's uncle Matthew Burns , began searching for a concept . After purchasing the rights to two pieces of equipment called `` Insta '' machines , the two opened their first stores around a cooking device known as the Insta - Broiler . The Insta - Broiler oven proved so successful at cooking burgers , they required all of their franchises to carry the device . After the original company began to falter in 1959 , it was purchased by its Miami , Florida , franchisees James McLamore and David R. Edgerton . The two initiated a corporate restructuring of the chain ; the first step being to rename the company Burger King . The duo ran the company as an independent entity for eight years , eventually expanding to over 250 locations in the United States , when they sold it to the Pillsbury Company in 1967 . </P>
who came first mcdonald 's or burger king
who came first mcdonald 's or burger king
McDonald
McDonald