Burger King UK decided to tweet out “Women belong in the kitchen” on International Women’s Day. People are obviously not happy, and are confused at Burger King’s explanation.
Women belong in the kitchen.
— Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021
We are proud to be launching a new scholarship programme which will help female Burger King employees pursue their culinary dreams!
— Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021
We hear you. We got our initial tweet wrong and we’re sorry. Our aim was to draw attention to the fact that only 20% of professional chefs in UK kitchens are women and to help change that by awarding culinary scholarships. We will do better next time.
— Burger King (@BurgerKingUK) March 8, 2021
Burger King had the perfect setup to go with Burger Queen for the day but chose to publicly execute their social media people instead.
— Anthony (@BigJigglyPanda) March 8, 2021
Male CCs speaking against what Burger King said or noticing that it’s international women’s day isn’t ending misogyny
it’s important they tweet out about it but make sure you’re uplifting women’s voices today misogyny is a daily struggle and it won’t be ended over a tweet /nm — sam/josie (is asleep) (@elytragogy) March 8, 2021
It’s actually so perfect that Burger King’s Women’s Day debacle is being run by a man who thinks he totally nailed it. https://t.co/TxYKdncqrN
— Nandini Jammi (@nandoodles) March 8, 2021