MIAMI Burger King has promoted four top-level executives in what it describes as preparation for meeting aggressive expansion targets for fiscal 2008.
Moving up to a senior vice president's post within their respective departments are Mike Kappitt of global business intelligence and strategy, formerly vice president of consumer insights and performance analysis; Jonathan Fitzpatrick, development and franchising, formerly vice president of information technology; John Reckert, global operations research and development, who most recently was responsible for retrofitting company restaurants with flexible batch broilers; and Chris Anderson, finance, who adds oversight of risk management, franchise finance and credit and collections to his existing duties of managing consolidation, external reporting and USA accounting groups.
Currently, Burger King operates or franchises more than 11,200 restaurants in the United States and 66 foreign countries. About 90 percent of the restaurants are franchised.