Carrols Restaurant Group is a fast-food restaurant operator



Carrols Restaurant Group is a fast-food restaurant operator. It is the largest Burger King franchisee in the world;[2] Carrols owns and operates about 315 Burger King locations across 12 U.S. states.[1]

The company also owns the restaurant chains Pollo Tropical and Taco Cabana. About 30 of these locations are franchised; the remaining are owned and operated by Carrols itself.[2] It originally owned a restaurant chain named Carrols; the U.S. locations were closed in the mid-1970s; current Carrols restaurants only exist in southern Finland.

Carrols corporate offices are located in Syracuse, New York. Most of its operations are under the name Carrols Corporation.

History

Carrols was an offshoot of the Tastee Freeze company. Herb Slotnick bought the franchise rights for the New York area and started opening restaurants in the Syracuse, New York area in the early 1960s. They expanded through the years throughout New York State.

During the 1960s, a yellow slug character served as Carrols 1st mascot; he was replaced in 1974 by a young blonde lad wearing a tweed suit and a Fedora hat.

During the 1970s, Carrols tried their hand at serving fried chicken (like that served at KFC); their attempt was advertised as "Carrols Crunchy Country Chicken, I can't say it and I work here". Carrols also formed an agreement with Good Humor to sell several of GH's favorite ice cream novelty bars.

Carrols restaurant locations were converted to Burger King Franchises in 1975. The original menu of Carrols, and the Carrols brand, then went overseas to Finland.

Carrols (Finland)

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This article is about the Finnish restaurant chain. For the American restaurant company, see Carrols Corporation.

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Carrols in Helsinki

Carrols is a chain of fast-food restaurants in various cities in Finland.

The company originally came to Finland as a franchise of an international chain named Carrols Corporation. However, it was eventually completely bought by the Finnish company Tuko which in turn was acquired by the Finnish chain Kesko becoming a completely Finnish-owned company. In the process it was renamed from Carrol's to Carrols, losing the apostrophe.

The most famous hamburger in Carrols is the Club Burger, which is similar to the Big Mac in McDonald's. The chain also regularly serves limited-time special hamburgers.

The chain was eventually bought out by another Finnish fast-food chain, Hesburger, which integrated it to itself almost fully. Almost all Carrols restaurants were converted to Hesburgers. This event caused a minor upset among the residents of Helsinki, since Hesburger is based in a rival city, Turku. Since the acquisition by Hesburger, only a few of the most famous Carrols restaurants remained under their original name, all of them located in the Greater Helsinki region (five in Helsinki, one in Espoo). Although Hesburger serves the Club Burger in its menu, the limited-time special hamburgers have been discontinued.

In August 2006 new life was breathed into the Carrols brand when a pilot scheme was launched with Pikoil, an operator of Neste branded service stations across Finland. The pilot programmer saw new Carrols restaurants opening at Pikoil sites in Imatra and Vantaa. One reason for the Carrols brand being used instead of Hesburger was that Hesburger already operates fast food restaurants under its own name at service stations run by the rival S-Group. Along with the launch of new Carrols restaurants, the Carrols.fi domain no longer pointed to the Hesburger site but instead to a relaunched dedicated Carrols site.

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