--- title: Burger King Franchise of the Year Gives Bonuses to Employees description: The owner of the Burger King Franchise of the Year sold his prizes a corvette and rolex watch so he could give canonical: https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-02-23T16:26:45.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:17:07.425Z og:title: Burger King Franchisee of the Year Sells Huge Prize, Gives Employees Bonuses Instead og:description: The owner of the Burger King Franchise of the Year sold his prizes a corvette and rolex watch so he could give og:url: https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Burger King Franchisee of the Year Sells Huge Prize, Gives Employees Bonuses Instead twitter:description: The owner of the Burger King Franchise of the Year sold his prizes a corvette and rolex watch so he could give twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Burger King Franchisee of the Year Sells Huge Prize, Gives Employees Bonuses Instead  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 23, 2015 4:26 PM UTC  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 23, 2015 4:26 PM UTC Burger King’s newly minted “Franchisee of the Year” sold a whopper of a prize and served up bonuses to Arizona employees, Phoenix’s [3TV](http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SIOd5Vps) reports. The news station claims Tom Barnett of Barnett Management sold a Corvette and Rolex watch gifted by the corporate honchos, which generated enough dough to hand out $120,000 worth of bonuses to workers at roughly two dozen locations throughout the state. “It was almost an entire month’s worth of pay for me,” Charity Callahan, who has worked at the chain for 15 years, [told 3TV](http://www.azfamily.com/video/featured-videos/Arizona-Burger-King-employees-receive-surprise-bonus-from-boss-292821981.html#ixzz3SaKfdik9). (h/t [_Consumerist_](http://consumerist.com/2015/02/20/burger-king-franchisee-of-the-year-cashes-in-prize-corvette-to-pay-bonuses-to-workers/)) _Read next:_ [_The 17 Most Influential Burgers of All Time_](http://time.com/3681108/most-influential-burgers/?xid=time%5Freadnext) [_Listen to the most important stories of the day._](http://time.com/newsletter/the-brief/?sl%5Fautoplay=true&xid=spl-fullbrief-article) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/"},"headline":"Burger King Franchisee of the Year Sells Huge Prize, Gives Employees Bonuses Instead","datePublished":"2015-02-23T16:26:45.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:17:07.425Z","description":"Food for thought","url":"https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3718804/burger-kings-franchisee-of-the-year-gives-employees-bonuses/","name":"Burger King Franchisee of the Year Sells Huge Prize, Gives Employees Bonuses Instead"}}]}] ```