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- Earlier this year, Burger King said it would close up to 400 restaurants this year.
- Dozens of stores have closed since spring, including six more in recent weeks.
- The chain is targeting "older and lower performing restaurants" for closures, the company CEO said.
More Burger King restaurants are closing, according to various news outlets.
The latest restaurant closures will be in Florida, New York, and Nebraska. Franchisees announced 26 store closures in Michigan in March and 27 closures across seven states, including in Nabraska, Utah, and Minnesota in April.
The recently closed locations in Nebraska have been open for at least 40 years and were run by the same franchisee who closed 27 stores in the spring, according to the Lincoln Journal Star.
In Long Island, New York, the closed Burger King restaurant is expected to be replaced by a McDonald's, according to GreaterLongIsland.com.
Burger King could not be reached for comment.
In May, Joshua Kobza, CEO of Burger King's parent company, Restaurant Brands International, said the chain would close up to 300 to 400 restaurants during the fiscal year. That would be equal to the number of closures the struggling chain closed during the pandemic, he said.
"I would emphasize that there is a fair degree of uncertainty regarding exact numbers, and this will depend, to some extent, on the pace of recovery in the business, which we've already begun to see," Kobza said in May. He became CEO in March, replacing longtime CEO José Cil.
In September 2022, Burger King announced a $400 million turnaround plan that called for the chain to upgrade 800 of the company's top-performing restaurants.
During its latest earnings call last week, the chain said restaurant traffic at Burger King was flat as the company continued to close underperforming and aging restaurants.
"We closed older and lower performing restaurants to support a more modern system increasingly run by better operators," Kobuza said.
Here's a list of the closed stores:
Florida
210 E. State Street, Jacksonville
1981 Kings Road, Jacksonville
Source: Florida-Times Union
New York
32 Montauk Highway, Long Island
Nebraska,
1448 N. 48th Street, Lincoln
5940 Havelock Avenue, Lincoln
2805 South 48th Street, Lincoln