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=How Wendy's Caught Up To Burger King= This article was talking about Wendy's and Burger King. For nearly 40 years Burger king has been the number 2 burger chain in the United States to McDonalds. This past year Burger King had sales of 8.4 Billion while Wendy's topped sales at 8.5 Billion. This is significant because Wendy's has a lesser amount of stores in the United States. One of the main reasons for this switch was an ownership change in Burger King. Sales at BK fell over 4 percent in 2010 and another 3 percent in 2011. A reason for the sales drop could be bad advertising. When everyone thinks about Burger King they think about the king in the commercials. BK recently retired the king from its commercials which could have dropped business. Burger King is also looking too much at the global market for its product. They have stores all around the world and focus on advertising all around the world. Wendy's has almost all their stores in the United States so they focus primarily on advertising here. Burger King also never took Wendy's seriously and never publisized why they were better than them. This is very significant. []