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SUMMERSIDE, P.E.I. —

Summerside residents and visitors can look forward to a restaurant making a return to the local Walmart.

According to a communications representative for Walmart, a Burger King is set scheduled to open later this spring. It will be a full-service Burger King location with customer seating.

The new Burger King will replace McDonald's, which had previously been in the city's Walmart location, but closed within the past few years.

In 2010, Summerside's Burger King location (then on Harbour Drive) closed its doors. It was owned and operated by Bush Dumville and was open for 25 years.

Dumville brought the Burger King franchise to the Island in 1979 when he opened the Charlottetown Burger King.

There were around 100 people employed at the Summerside Burger King.

While the business closed, the building wouldn’t be demolished until November 2015. The building was 45,000 square feet. At the time it was deemed there was no viable way to renovate the it.

The lot now houses Dixie Lee, owned by Major and Basil Stewart.

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