Burger King will open first West Africa restaurant

Burger King will open its first restaurant in West Africa this month in Ivory Coast, a country more famous for slow-cooked chicken than fast consumption of beef patties.

Air France-KLM’s in-flight caterer, Servair, will operate the restaurant in a mall in sub-Saharan Africa, Servair said.

Through its Ivory Coast restaurant, Burger King is expanding its operations in sub-Saharan Africa, where it currently operates only in South Africa. The burger chain is also targeting a fast-growing economy that has expanded an average of 9 percent annually in the past three years following a decade of political crisis.

Bloomberg News

This story was originally published December 1, 2015 at 2:25 PM with the headline "Burger King will open first West Africa restaurant."