December 17, 2010
BY EDGAR CORRESPONDENCE
Securities and Exchange Commission
100 F Street, N.E.
Washington, D.C. 20549
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Burger King Holdings, Inc. (“Holdings”) and Burger King Corporation (“BKC”)
Registration Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-170614) |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
BKC, as issuer and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdings, proposes to offer to exchange (the
“Exchange Offer”), upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Registration
Statement on Form S-4 (File No. 333-170614) (the “Registration Statement”), as amended, and in the
accompanying Letter of Transmittal, all of its outstanding unregistered $800,000,000 97/8% Senior
Notes due 2018 (“Original Notes”) for $800,000,000 97/8% Senior Notes due 2018 (“Exchange Notes”)
that have been registered under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”). The
Original Notes are, and the Exchange Notes will be, guaranteed, jointly and severally, on a senior
unsecured basis by Holdings and BK Acquisition, Inc., BK CDE, Inc., Burger King Interamerica, LLC,
Burger King Sweden Inc., Distron Transportation Systems, Inc., Moxie’s, Inc., The Melodie
Corporation, TPC Number Four, Inc. and TQW Company (collectively with Holdings, the “Guarantors”).
BKC and the Guarantors are making the Exchange Offer in reliance on the position of the staff
of the Division of Corporation Finance (the “Staff”) enunciated in the no-action letters of Exxon
Capital Holdings Corporation (avail. April 13, 1988), Morgan Stanley & Co. Incorporated (avail.
June 5, 1991) and Shearman & Sterling (avail. July 2, 1993). BKC and the Guarantors represent that
they (a) have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in a
distribution (within the meaning of the Securities Act) of the Exchange Notes received in the
Exchange Offer and (b) have not entered into any arrangement or understanding with any
broker-dealer to participate in a distribution of the Exchange Notes. To the best of BKC’s and the
Guarantors’ knowledge, based upon the representations and agreements to be set forth in the Letter
of Transmittal, each holder of Original Notes who exchanges Original Notes for Exchange Notes in
the Exchange Offer will be acquiring such Exchange Notes in the ordinary course of its business and
will have no arrangement or understanding with any person to participate in a distribution of such
Exchange Notes. The Registration Statement indicates that if a holder who is an affiliate or has
an arrangement or understanding with respect to the distribution of the Exchange Notes, such holder
of Exchange Notes will not be entitled to rely on the Staff’s position enunciated in the prior
interpretive letters and, instead, must comply with the registration and prospectus delivery
requirements of the Securities Act in connection with a secondary resale transaction unless such
resale is made pursuant to an exemption from such requirements. BKC and the Guarantors acknowledge
that a secondary resale transaction by a holder who is using the Exchange Offer to participate in a
distribution of Exchange Notes to be acquired in the Exchange Offer should be covered by an
effective registration statement containing the selling securityholder information required by Item
507 of Regulation S-K.
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The Registration Statement also indicates that if any broker-dealer holds Original Notes
acquired for its own account as a result of market-making or other trading activities and exchanges
such Original Notes for Exchange Notes, then such broker-dealer must deliver a prospectus meeting
the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resales of such Exchange Notes. Each
broker-dealer that receives Exchange Notes for its own account pursuant to the Exchange Offer will
acknowledge in the Letter of Transmittal that it acquired the Original Notes for its own account as
the result of market-making or other trading activities and will agree to deliver a prospectus
meeting the requirements of the Securities Act in connection with any resale of the Exchange Notes
(which may be the Registration Statement). The Letter of Transmittal will also state that, by such
acknowledgment and delivery, a broker-dealer will not be deemed to admit that it is an
“underwriter” within the meaning of the Securities Act.
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December 17, 2010
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Should you have any questions or comments regarding this matter, please contact the
undersigned at (305) 378-7913 or BKC’s and the Guarantors’ legal counsel, Kara L. MacCullough,
Esq., at (305) 789-7548.
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Very truly yours,
Burger King Holdings, Inc.
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/s/ Anne Chwat
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Burger King Corporation
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/s/ Anne Chwat
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Anne Chwat |
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General Counsel |
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BK Acquisition, Inc.
BK CDE, Inc.
Burger King Interamerica, LLC
Burger King Sweden Inc.
Distron Transportation Systems, Inc.
Moxie’s, Inc.
The Melodie Corporation
TPC Number Four, Inc.
TQW Company
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/s/ Anne Chwat
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