Burger King Fast Food. Burger King company began in 1953 as Insta-Burger King. There after the company ran into financial difficulties in 1955, and than two Miami-based franchisees, David Edgerton and James McLamore, purchased the company and renamed it Burger King. The movement by United State food companies toward more humane treatment of animals experienced a whopper of a shift Wednesday when Burger King announced that all its eggs and pork will come from cage-free chickens and pigs by 2017.
