He should have run this one by the Burger Queen.
Fast good giant Burger King is taking heat for announcing a scholarship for female culinary students in the U.K. with an International Women’s Day tweet that reads “Women belong in the kitchen.”
While a pair of tweets following close behind explained that the Home of the Whopper was investing in training female employees to become chefs, critics on social media found the announcement half-baked.
“I won’t be eating at your store again thanks,” tweeted an unsatisfied female customer.
“Burger king f—k you” wrote a male Twitter user with 1.5 million followers.
Burger King followed its initial tweet with another explaining women belong in the kitchen “If they want to, of course. Yet only 20% of chefs are women.”
The eatery said it is “on a mission to change the gender ratio in the restaurant industry” and would do so by helping its workers go to culinary school.
“We are proud to be launching a new scholarship programme which will help female Burger King employees pursue their culinary dreams!” reads a third tweet in Burger King U.K.’s series.
It then deleted all the offensive tweets, and released a mea culpa missive.
“We hear you. We got our initial tweet wrong and we’re sorry. Our aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in UK kitchens are women and to help change that by awarding culinary scholarships. We will do better next time,” It wrote in the first one.
The company followed with a tweet saying it deleted the one that started the sizzling controversy because ”It was brought to our attention that there were abusive comments in the thread and we don’t want to leave the space open for that.:
Twitter user Michelle Guido tweeted at Burger King that she understands what their social media team was trying to do, but said it wasn’t well done.
“I get that you were using this comment as bait for a larger conversation to actually empower women. But listen to all the women telling you that using a sexist comment as bait isn’t cool,” she tweeted. “This was the first tweet I saw on international woman’s day.”
KFC Gaming, a Twitter feed operated by fast food chicken joint KFC, clucked at its competitor’s cluelessness.
“The best time to delete this post was immediately after posting it,” wrote KFC Gaming. “The second best time is now.”
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The politically correct “woke” Burger King and look what happened. Burger King is into the “woke” culture, all men are evil and they ended up eating their own political correctness. So in essence they ate their own “Whopper”.
Well, they’re the only one…
Humm…… If “Women belong in the kitchen.” is offensive to these whiny people?
Then I guess to these whiny people “Women don’t belong in the kitchen.” would be a good statement.
Maybe women don’t make good chefs? Who knew?
Well based on the # of times in shows like House hunters, where the wife’s flat out admitted “I Don’t evne know how to cook, let alone Do any cooking, that’s the HUSBANDS job”, its not surprising they don’t make good chefs.
i understand that some did not like that but its hard to have a career as a woman and expect your household especially your kids to
have no parents at home to raise them right and not let the government do it or a nanny.
women are vital in the household.
JUST like men are.. BUT the left cares not about the kids…
Well now, it might be because of this kind of issue. why did Dairy Queen get pregnant? Because Burger King forgot to wrap his whopper.
What did you expect?
” “I won’t be eating at your store again thanks,” tweeted an unsatisfied female customer.”
“unsatisfied female” That just about says it all right there. The King’s Whopper(tm) doesn’t do it for her any longer?
Stopped giving BK our business, when they were wrapping the whopper with homosexual wrapper, a few years ago. Yuck!
When Burger King came out with the queer whopper that’s when i stop buying anything from them.
The ONLY time i’ve even been in one since, was to use their toilet… Cause the one at the gas station, right next door, was closed..
Fast food for the most part is garbage and America is paying for this stuff which destroys our bodies and then we turn to big pharma for medicine to counteract the poison we paid for.
This is pure BS. Only a complete idiot would take that as a sexist rant. There are two types of employees at any of those restaurants. Those who work the registers, and those who cook. By this I am assuming that the pay is higher in the back, where the actual work is done. Sadly, at the same time, I must admit that the wording was stupid in this woke world.
The democrat communist thinks everything is sexist.
Just like everything’s racist.. so long as whites made it.
Women do belong in the kitchen , whats wrong with that ?
I just read the bucket from KFC. It states there are two only two types of people in this world and both like fried chicken. TWO types of people, not 6-7 types? They are bound to be run out of every blue state for that “homophobic” statement. LMAO!
I’d certainly not put it past the left, to try to run them out.
Shouldn’t women be elevated to positions like the mistresses of San Francisco mayors instead? The oldest profession put a candidate who was rejected by 97% of her party during the democrat primaries in a position to profit from the highly touted 25th amendment after they put hair sniffin Joe in the padded oval office cell.