Burger King Opens its 59th Restaurant in Hungary

Burger King has opened a restaurant in Budakalász, the 59th Hungarian unit of the fast-food chain, creating around 30 jobs in one of the key settlements of the North Buda region, Burger King said in a statement on Tuesday.

Burger King's Hungarian operator, Fusion Plc., said in response to a question from MTI that they are continuing to expand in Hungary, with a second store already under construction in Székesfehérvár and work also underway on a new unit in Budapest's Pólus Center.

In Hungary, the first Burger King restaurant opened in 1991 in Budapest's Oktogon. According to the operator, they have been striving for years to make their burgers using ingredients from Hungarian suppliers, thus guaranteeing the quality expected.

Construction of the restaurant in Budakalász started in spring 2024 and was completed in January 2025. László Sümegi, president of Fusion Plc., said in a statement that Budakalász is of strategic importance for the fast food chain not only because of the city's residents, but also because of the M0 ring road and the traffic on the main road 11.

The new unit is the first drive-through restaurant in Hungary to be given the completely renewed 'Pavilion' design. They added that the investment also contributed to the beautification of the Omsk Park environment, with more than 170 trees planted by Auchan and the Fusion team.

According to publicly available company data, Fusion Zrt. achieved a net sales revenue of HUF 56.2 billion in 2023, up from HUF 40.4 billion in the previous year. The company's after-tax profit in 2023 was HUF 4.5 billion, up from HUF 2.9 billion a year earlier. Fusion Plc. employed a total of 1,712 people in 2023.

The Burger King restaurant chain opened its first restaurant in Florida in 1954 and is now present in 100 countries around the world. Globally, its more than 15,000 restaurants serve more than 11 million customers a day and employ around 300,000 people.