Comment on McDonald's loses out in legal beef with Hungry Jack's

Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Jack in the Box is not a thing in Australia.

  In case you missed it/didn’t know: Hungry Jacks is Burger King, here.

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  • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Oh man. Where do you guys go to get the most disgusting tacos you’ve ever eaten if you don’t have Jack in the Box?

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    • trk@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Taco Bell

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    • Nath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Taco Bell have recently opened a couple of stores. I haven’t been gone there for bad tacos, but I’ve been to Taco Bell in the USA.

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• Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  To elaborate, when Burger King wanted to expand to Australia, they discovered a different company already existed with that name, so for trademark reasons they couldn’t open in Australia as Burger King. So they chose a new name here—Hungry Jacks. Most of the menu is broadly similar, as is the logo and iconography.

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  • youngalfred@lemm.ee ⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    To add to this, when the trademark lapsed in the 90s, Burger King America actually opened BK branded stores here in an attempt to push out the Australian franchise holder (hungry jacks).
    BK lost the legal case, had to pay a heap of money and decided to leave Australia, transferring all the bk stores to Hungry jacks.

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