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  Obituary: James McLamore | Independent, The (London) | Find Articles at BNET.com
James McLamore was the co-founder of the Burger King chain of fast-food restaurants and architect of the hamburger known as the Whopper.
McLamore was ranked with McDonalds' Ray Kroc and Kentucky Fried Chicken's Harlan Sanders as leaders in the fast-food industry.
McLamore was a benefactor and trustee of Miami University, at one time part-owner of the Miami Dolphins American football team and, as an avid gardener, served as president of Fairchild Tropical Gardens.
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 Burger King Corporation - Company Profile, Information, Business Description, History, Background Information on Burger ...
McLamore and Edgerton began in 1954 with a simple concept: to attract the burgeoning numbers of postwar baby boom families with reasonably-priced, broiled burgers served quickly.
By 1959 McLamore and Edgerton were ready to expand beyond Florida, and franchising seemed to be the best way to take their concept to a broader market.
McLamore and Edgerton took their initial payments (which varied with the territory) and their cut (as little as 1 percent of sales) and left their franchisees pretty much on their own.
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Yet, at a small burger chain James McLamore was hard at work producing what would turn out to be a far more insidious threat to this nation's health: The Whopper.
McLamore founded "Insta Burger King" in 1954, dropping the "Insta" a few years later.
One of McLamore's pals was Dave Thomas of Wendy's, who said that McLamore cut the ribbon when Wendy's opened its 40th restaurant.
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“I feel our transplant program is connected to James McLamore through our shared values: excellent and relentless daily work, sensitivity to the suffering of our fellow citizens, and investment in the future with education, research, and development.
James McLamore was one of the founders of Burger King Corporation and a former chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees.
William J. Whelan, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the 1997 James W. McLamore winner, was named the 2006 Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award recipient, and Diana Lopez, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology, is the 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award winner.
www.miami.edu /scrip/february2006/story05.html   (420 words)

  
 Restaurant Leadership Conference   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Burger King Corporation was founded in Miami in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
Burger King Corporation was founded in 1954 in Miami, Fla., by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
McLamore and Edgerton, both of whom had extensive experience in the restaurant business before starting their joint venture, believed in the simple concept of providing the customer with reasonably priced quality food, served quickly, in attractive, clean surroundings.
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 BK co-founder McLamore dead at 70 - Burger King Corp.'s James W. McLamore dies of lung cancer | Nation's Restaurant ...
MIAMI -- James W. McLamore, the co-founder of Burger King Corp. and the man largely credited with transforming a small Florida drive-in franchise into the second-largest hamburger brand in the world, died after a battle with lung cancer.
McLamore, who together with a partner, Dave Edgerton, opened their first Burger King franchise in 1954, was described by those who knew him as an entrepreneur, an innovator, a strategist and a mentor to the system and employees he helped nurture.
During recent years McLamore often was called on as consultant and adviser to the chain, first under former chairman and chief executive James Adamson and most recently under Lowes.
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 BK Information - The People's Medicine Community ™
The first restaurant was opened in Miami, Florida in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton, and has since used several variations of franchising to expand its operations.
McLamore visited the original McDonald's hamburger stand belonging to Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California; sensing potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided to create a version of his own.
This quarter pound hamburger was created by Burger King founders James McLamore and David Edgerton as a way to differentiate BK from other burger outlets at the time.
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BKC was founded in 1954 in Miami, Fla., by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
McLamore and Edgerton, Founders of Burger King Corporation, both of whom had extensive experience in the restaurant business before starting their joint venture, believed in the simple concept of providing the customer with reasonably priced quality food, served quickly, in attractive, clean surroundings.
By 1961, McLamore and Edgerton had acquired national franchise rights for the Company, which was then operating 45 restaurants throughout Florida and the Southeast.
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 Burger King History | sjpc_01_package.xml
Burger King is a fast-food restaurant franchise that, along with McDonald's, has come to typify the U.S. "hamburger chain" concept that saw thousands of identical outlets spring up along the nation's highways after World War II and, later, in cities and towns from coast to coast and around the world.
With its orange-and-white signs, Burger King, the "Home of the Whopper,"; was founded in Miami in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
McLamore, James W. The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire.
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JAMES MCLAMORE, BURGER KING CO-FOUNDER, DIES AT 70.(News/National/International)
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Yet, at a small burger chain James McLamore was hard at work producing what would turn out to be a far more insidious threat to this nation's health: The Whopper.
McLamore founded "Insta Burger King" in 1954, dropping the "Insta" a few years later.
One of McLamore's pals was Dave Thomas of Wendy's, who said that McLamore cut the ribbon when Wendy's opened its 40th restaurant.
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“I feel our transplant program is connected to James McLamore through our shared values: excellent and relentless daily work, sensitivity to the suffering of our fellow citizens, and investment in the future with education, research, and development.
James McLamore was one of the founders of Burger King Corporation and a former chairman of the University of Miami Board of Trustees.
William J. Whelan, Ph.D., professor of biochemistry and molecular biology and the 1997 James W. McLamore winner, was named the 2006 Distinguished Faculty Scholar Award recipient, and Diana Lopez, Ph.D., professor of microbiology and immunology, is the 2006 Outstanding Teaching Award winner.
www6.miami.edu /scrip/february2006/story05.html   (420 words)

  
 The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire by James W. McLamore | LibraryThing
The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire by James W. McLamore
The history of Burger King is not nearly as well known as the almost simultaneous development of arch rival McDonald's, but that doesn't mean Burger King's rags-to-$9-billion tale will prove any less instructive or inspiring to today's budding entrepreneur.
The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire, by cofounder James McLamore (who died in 1996 at age 70), relates in plain-spoken and honest fashion the story of a corporation that grew from a handful of struggling south Florida drive-ins to become the second-largest fast-food chain in the world.
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 Antenarrative Double Spiral - Helix - D. Boje http://peaceaware.com/McD
James Watson and Francis Crick proposed their double helix theory of DNA in 1953 (perhaps the greatest science discovery of the 20th century), for which the got a Nobel Price in 1962.
However since the VLC of a Disney or Kroc continues to have significant influence for long periods of history, there can be new leaders that become CEO who are overshadowed by the ghosts of past leaders.
A founders' helix may be short-lived, as in the case of James McLamore (Burger King) or long-lived such as Ray Kroc, Colonel Sanders, or Dave Thomas (Wendy's).
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 Burger King Corporation Honors Twelve Franchisees, Restaurant Managers and Employees With Prestigious James W. McLamore ...
These twelve award recipients were singled out for their accomplishments both in their restaurants and in their communities.
The Schusters, the only franchise group to receive the James W. McLamore Excellence Award, were singled out for their accomplishments both in their restaurants and in their community.
McLamore would be proud of their many accomplishments." Marvin and Todd Schuster own and operate 59 restaurants in 30 cities in Middle and South Georgia and Alabama.
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 Amazon.ca: The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire: Books: James W. McLamore   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The history of Burger King is not nearly as well known as the almost simultaneous development of arch rival McDonald's, but that doesn't mean Burger King's rags-to-$9-billion tale will prove any less instructive or inspiring to today's budding entrepreneur.
The Burger King: Jim McLamore and the Building of an Empire, by cofounder James McLamore (who died in 1996 at age 70), relates in plain-spoken and honest fashion the story of a corporation that grew from a handful of struggling south Florida drive-ins to become the second-largest fast-food chain in the world.
Brimming with McLamore's never-say-die spirit and drawing interesting parallels to the experiences of McDonald's founder Ray Kroc, this is the definitive look at an American original and philanthropist who helped usher in the fast-food era.
www.amazon.ca /Burger-King-McLamore-Building-Empire/dp/0070452555   (508 words)

  
 Burger King | DBpedia.org
It was founded in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton, and has since used a franchise model to expand to just over 11,200 stores in 65 nations around the globe.
Burger King Holdings is the parent company of Burger King, in the US it operates under the Burger King Brands title while internationally it operates under the Burger King Corporation banner.
McLamore in 1957, a sandwich that has since become Burger King's signature product.
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They also were the first drug distributor to barcode and scan products, the first to employ electronic data interchange (EDI) and the first to use hand-held order-entry devices.
James McLamore, a veteran food service operator, joined with David Edgerton to open the first Burger King in 1954.
They made the Whopper its signature dish and from their beginning in Miami, Fla., they customized a brand and company based on "having it your way" that today serves customers in all 50 states and 54 countries around the world.
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 What do you know about Burger King Restaurant?
First Burger King Restaurant was opened in 1954 and now it is a chain of restaurants all over the world.
It was opened in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton.
James McLamore had visited McDonald's restaurant and had realized that the idea of fast food restaurants had great potential.
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 Burger King: The facts about the second-largest fast-food restaurant - Dining & Restaurants (Other) - Helium
When James McLamore and David Edgerton founded the Insta-Burger King in a suburb near Miami, Florida in 1954 they could not have known t...
Founded in Miami, Florida by James McLamore and David Edgerton in 1954, where hamburgers cost 18 cents, Burger King has grown to be the second largest fast food chain behind McDonald's.
Burger King was founded in a Miami, Florida, suburb in 1954 by James McLamore and David Edgerton, following a visit to...
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Louis Smith got his 2nd blocked kick return of the year for a score and DT James McLamore capped it with an interception return for 6.
Newell recorded 17 stops and John Knight and James McLamore added 12 each as RNE finished with just 134 total yards.
Newell recorded 24 tackles while McLamore, Filbey and Knight also were in double digits.
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 Burger King super page - burger king commercial
Burger King's first restaurant—originally called Insta Burger King—was opened in 1954 in Miami, Florida, USA by James McLamore and David Edgerton, who were both alumni of the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration.
McLamore had visited the hamburger stand belonging to Dick and Mac McDonald in San Bernardino, California; being able to sense potential in their innovative assembly line-based production system, he decided to create a version of his own.
Ironically, the first restaurant's milkshake machine was sold to them by Ray Kroc, who later bought the McDonald's restaurant chain from its founders and oversaw its worldwide expansion.
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 TheStoryGroup.com: Washington students named Burger King scholars   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Burger King Corp. awarded the McLamore Burger King Scholarship to four of the students, Jaishmine Robinson, Rasheida Ross, Takiedra White and LaToya Williams.
The scholarship, which was established in 1997, is named after James McLamore, a Burger King Corp. co-founder, and is given to students throughout the country.
The students at Washington are four of at least 1,500 students to receive this $1,000 award to assist them in their goal of continuing their education at a college or post-secondary vocational/technical school.
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