![]() Due to its success in selling 6,000 sandwiches within the first four days, Burger King decided to extend the promotion period an extra nine days, ending on 6 November. It was originally planned to be available for only seven days starting on 22 October 2009. The hamburger contained seven stacked beef patties and measured 5 in (13 cm) high, weighed almost 2.2 lb (1.00 kg), and had more than 1,000 kcal (4,200 kJ). To promote continuing interest in the product, Burger King occasionally releases limited-time offerings ("LTO") on the Whopper such as the "Windows 7 Whopper" in Japan as a product tie-in with Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system. In their place, a combination of chicken, vegetarian patties and mutton are used in place of beef. To accommodate practitioners of Islam and Hinduism, who make up the majority of the Indian population, the chain has eliminated beef and pork from its menu. ![]() ![]() With the company's expansion into India, the chain introduced two new variants on the Whopper while reintroducing the chicken version of the sandwich. The company markets several variants of the burger, such as the Whopper Jr., as well as variants based on regional tastes or customs, such as the teriyaki Whopper in Japan or the LTO Canadian Whopper. The Whopper has prompted Burger King's competitors, mainly McDonald's with at least six different products and Wendy's with its Big Classic, to develop similar products designed to compete with it. The name is used in the Home of the Whopper advertising as well as the name of the BK Whopper Bar. Introduced in 1957, it has undergone several reformulations including re-sizing and bread changes. The Whopper sandwich is a hamburger sold by Burger King and its Australian franchise Hungry Jack's. Initially a clone of McDonald's breakfast line, the company began to differentiate itself with the introduction of the Croissan'wich breakfast sandwich in 1982. The company introduced the first iteration of its breakfast menu was another addition that came in with the company's in a 1978 menu expansion. BK Chicken fries would also be removed and re-added to its menu in response to ownership changes and customer demand. The chain added a second chicken finger product with the introduction of its BK Chicken Fries product in the mid-2000s. That sandwich would go on to be reformulated and renamed several times before settling on the current Grilled sandwich. The company began offering the first, nationally available grilled chicken sandwich product when it added the BK Broiler in the early 1990s. BK Chicken Tenders made their debut in a menu revision and expansion in 1985 to address the absence of a chicken fingers product akin to McDonald's Chicken McNuggets. The company's first major chicken product, its Original Chicken Sandwich, was also part of the company's 1978 Specialty Sandwich line. On the value side, Burger King first started offering sliders to its menu in the mid-1980s and offered them off and on for the next twenty years. However, it was not until 2002 when the company began to work on a premium burger in earnest. The products were some of the first designed by a fast food restaurant chain that were intended to capture the adult market, members of which would be willing to spend more on a higher-quality product. The company began experimenting with premium hamburgers, made from higher quality ingredients, in 1978 with the introduction of its Specialty Sandwich product line. The company did not add another permanent hamburger to its menu until the introduction of the Big King sandwich in 1996 in response to McDonald's Big Mac sandwich. After being acquired by its Miami, Florida franchisees and renamed in 1954, BK began expanding its menu by adding the Whopper. When the predecessor of international fast food restaurant chain Burger King (BK) first opened in 1953, its menu predominantly consisted of hamburgers, French fries, soft drinks, milkshakes, and desserts.
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