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actually be good for business well you be the judge here are 10 fast food fights that will
never be forgotten who's on first on the St Louis team we have the who's on first what's on second
I don't know's on third fast food and it's fast foods have existed for decades as long-standing
chains push each other for Market Supremacy some chains have existed longer than others and more
than one modern chain lays a stake in being the first out of the gate while McDonald's is widely
recognized as the Godfather of modern fast food by innovating a cookie cutter style production
line system they weren't the first joint to sell food at a faster Pace than traditional sit-down
restaurants one of McDonald's early Burger slinging slogans buy them by the bag is eerily
similar to White Castles buy them by the sack a marketing tool the castle debuted way back in 1927
when they became the first food establishment to offer paper bag carryout the folks at White
Castle claim their Crown as the world's first fast food hamburger Chain by expanding locations
in 1921 but root beer royalty chain a w can Trace their teen Burger tossing days back to a roadside
stand in 1919 before they officially started franchising in 1925 which would give them rights
as the true pioneers and although White Castle's Square Patty sliders were a huge success in the
1920s Dave Thomas would piggyback and popularize the square snack and full-size Burger form when
he founded Wendy's restaurants in 1969 so maybe it doesn't matter who started what or where and
when as long as it all tastes great Popeyes and KFC I flew all the way to Kentucky to get some
of your Fried Chicken and a kernel isn't even working today when you're in a heated rivalry
with someone it's probably best not to chicken out that is of course unless chicken is exactly
the business you're in when Popeye's Louisiana fast chicken entered the scene in 1972 it was
already 20 years behind Colonel Sanders Kentucky Fried Chicken Franchise but ever since they have
kept pecking away at the lead Popeyes has come on in recent years winning the spicy chicken sandwich
Wars and grabbing some pop culture notoriety in the year 2000 Adam Sandler film Little Nicky
they've also made Headway overseas opening their first ever UK franchise in 2021. tell me about you
the Harlan Sanders story while the progress is great KFC Remains The unquestioned Chicken King
United Kingdom expansion sounds great but they have some catching up to do since the colonel
already has over 1 000 locations over there add to that their total of 20 7 000 franchises across
the world whereas Popeyes weighs in at just over 3 400 total locations as an unquestioned number
two in the chicken Wars Popeyes will for now have to let KFC keep clucking all the way to the bank
Pizza Hut versus Domino's is that weird Paul look around we're in a Domino's
it's Pizza Time two popular pie franchises have gone back and forth at each other over the years
and unlike the other one-sided feuds the tide actually turned in this one it seemed the two
were destined to compete from the outset with Domino's opening its first location in 1960 a
mere two years after Pizza Hut stepped onto the scene in the coming decades it was the
Pizza Hut Pie Guys winning the race and by the mid-1990s they had more than doubled
Domino's market share to the tune of 25 to 11 but eventually Underdog dominoes caught up spurred by
an honest ad campaign about the Lesser quality of their Pizza Domino's gained Traction in 2010 by
announcing they'd completely rework their recipes ingredients customer service and overall quality
they also modernized the delivery game with the state-of-the-art digital ordering and tracking
techniques the overhaul worked and by 2016 a Domino's stock price had risen significantly and
one year after that they fight finally overtook Pizza Hut in total sales the only thing that
tastes better than revenge just might be pizza but in this case Domino's gets to have both
Subway versus Blimpie I don't believe this come on subway there is no way you're 5 10. here's another
tale of the second horse in the race finishing first Blimpie kicked down the barricades for the
high-speed Hoagie Market when they first opened in 1964 but Subway was hot on their heels when they
were founded just one year later while Blimpy opened a lot of fast food avenues that would
eventually become standard like having locations in shopping malls instead of street corners like
those poor guys who had to come up with a new ad campaign for Subway it was Subway's Innovation
to fully customized sandwiches that eventually won out by the end of the century Blimpie had
less than 150 locations across the United States Subway was Victorious as the Millennium turned but
a new Challenger would soon emerge Subway versus Jimmy John's high quality stuff high quality for
a sandwich achieving National success on the back of their healthy eating image Subways eat fresh ad
campaigns saw them expand globally to over 16 000 locations across the world by the year 2000 and in
2010 they even had a larger Global footprint than McDonald's they hit the summit in 2015 with 27
000 locations in the USA and another 18 000 worldwide but their aggressive franchising
policies saw a drop in quality across the board and sales suddenly plummeted just five years after
its peak Subway had closed nearly 6 000 locations and as Subway shrinks Jimmy John's has picked up
the pace with 2 700 locations in 43 States they've recently announced a 20 restaurant expansion into
California it's a long way to go but the faster Subway Falls the quicker Jimmy John's continues
to rise first time here then hit that subscribe button and never miss out now well back to the
battles thanks DQ versus Baskin Robbins and designing the ice cream to accumulate into
school I don't know how you're gonna talk on top the fight for a frozen sweet treat Victory is
surprisingly not being waged on the sunny beaches of America over the last decade the Battleground
for this competition has been China DQ announced expansion plans in 2009 wanting to add to their
footprint of over 170 Chinese locations they already had Baskin Robbins had seen prior
success in Japan and Korea and decided to try its hand in China right after DQ entered the market
by 2013 there are 31 Flavors had 90 locations in China and they announced plans to expand by
another 250 over 10 years the scooping hurts our wrist that sounds great but they'll still have
to bow down to the true Dairy Queen there are 1100 dqs in China as of 2022 and they've just
announced a 600 store expansion over the next eight years Duncan versus Krispy Kreme [Music]
the donut Showdown is a simple one Krispy Kreme has a higher price point but only
because it offers a chef's recipe glaze on their donuts that give them a more bougie quality that
carefully crafted flavor repeatedly tests better than their boston-based competitor Duncan on the
other hand offers a wider variety of donuts at a lower price point but they aren't preferred
as much when up against Krispy Kremes but what's a donut without a good cup of coffee and that's
where Duncan has found the advantage by 2015 the company estimated over 60 percent of its sales
came from beverages instead of foodstuffs finding more success with their Joe than their dough while
87 percent of crispy customers are strictly in it for the sweets and the Rivalry between coffee
and donuts just give up the fight and get one of each the Cola Wars okay okay wow so angry the most
important part of any fast food meal might be the ice cold fountain drink you wash it down with for
over a century one rivalry between refreshing beverages has transcended the food service
industry Coca-Cola versus Pepsi even after over 100 years in competition any server who dares to
ask is Pepsi okay or vice versa is likely to start a lively debate that just might wreck your lunch
break dubbed the Cola Wars by historians and the media the battle peaked in the 1970s and 80s but
the roots of the Rivalry stretch back to 1886. Coke controlled the market share for the first
several decades with Pepsi struggling enough to officially file for bankruptcy in 1923 and again
in 1931 Pepsi finally found some stability when it merged with the Frito-Lay snack company in
1965 setting the stage for a major escalation of the cola challenge specifically the Pepsi
challenge in 1975 Pepsi opened up blind taste tests to Consumers that they dubbed the Pepsi
Challenge and let customers choose which of the two soft drinks they preferred in flavor
it was a landslide win for Pepsi and not just as a marketing gimmick Coke went into a panic
and tweaked their famous 90 year old secret recipe to more replicate the sweeter flavor
of Pepsi how do you even drink that because it's delicious they dubbed it New Coke and released
it to the market in 1985 under the assumption it would be a massive success instead it was a
disaster Coke fans turned away from the product in droves unimpressed with the changes to their
familiar formula however instead of switching to Pepsi co-customers organized rallies and signed
petitions to bring back the original recipe less than three months after New Coke was introduced
the company listened to the masses and brought back the original as Coca-Cola classic and sales
boomed once again Pepsi continued to be largely doomed to second place and Coca-Cola has surpassed
them in annual sales every year since the new Coke disaster was the peak of the Cola Wars and
turned into a backwards success as of 2019 Pepsi had only a 24 share of the soft drink Market
compared to Coca-Cola holding almost half of the market at 43 percent Burger King and McDonald's
and 20 chicken fries the heated rivalry of liquids and the Cola Wars could only
be matched by the beefy brawl of the burger Wars much like their cola compatriots this
war has one clear winner against a number two that has been a consistent sword in their side
but continues to push the envelope on Innovation ever since McDonald's pioneered the very concept
of modern fast food there have been copycats and competitors and Burger King is on top of
that list when businessman Ray Kroc launched the modern McDonald's in 1955 he created an
Empire of chain restaurants and a visit to one of those restaurants created its biggest
competitor businessman Keith Kramer and Matthew Burns visited the original McDonald's and knew
there was a way to replicate the strategy setting to work on their own design the insta Burger King
VK first took serious aim at McDonald's in the 1970s after the famous Big Mac was introduced
to McDonald's customers while the Mac was marketed with a very specific jingle that listed
all the sandwiches ingredients Burger King went in the other direction they came out with an ad
campaign introducing they are still in use have it your way slogan that pushed for customization
of menu items instead of McDonald's rigidity although allowing customers to edit their
toppings slowed down service times it was a hit with the audience and soon became the industry
standard the king went directly after Ronald McDonald again in 1981 with an ad campaign
that claimed Mickey D's burger patties were 20 smaller than their own the campaign also
used disparaging tactics calling out gaps in the side-by-side differences in quality taste
and preparation between the two restaurants such as broiling versus frying while the ad
sparked some serious Buzz they also sparked a serious lawsuit when an angry McDonald's
sued BK and called the advertisements quote false deceptive disparaging unfair and misleading while
the lawsuit was eventually settled BK's tactic of using direct comparisons and campaigns against one
another later became widely used throughout the industry Mars and Hershey some kind of fun house
by having fun the Battle of Willy Wonka wannabes stretches back to the turn of the last century
it was the late 1880s when Milton Hershey found his calling to produce sugary sweets by opening
the Lancaster caramel Company by 1894 the business had expanded and in 1900 Milton sold his caramel
company for a whopping 1 million dollars 32.5 million dollars adjusted for today the first
Hershey's milk chocolate bar was sold that year and the rest is history and only a few
years before it all started Hershey's biggest rival would come into the fold when its founder
Frank Mars was born in 1883 a second generation candy maker Frank was working in candy factories
by the time he was 19 and opened up his own in 1911 while they ultimately closed up shop it was
the first step in the creation of the Mars candy company Frank's Sun Forest Mars enter the family
business with the creation of the Milky Way bar in 1923. can I have that Milky Way oh you
can't have the Milky Way which is a big enough hit for the team need to open up a new Factory
in Chicago from there Frank would invent the Snickers bar and the Three Musketeers Bar only
two years apart while Forest debuted the Mars Bar in 1932 and Eminem's in 1941. the two companies
have been first and second in the chocolate Market ever since like other food rivalries
they remain in competition even today but one of the chocolate Champions is the clear leader
Hershey leads the charge with a larger share of earnings and market share at least when you're
in the chocolate business second place can still taste sweet no need to fight for more great videos
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