Planning ahead for your Burger King Crowns
Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.) Crowns cannot be transferred and have no beneficiary option — here is what you can do while the account is active
Burger King Guest Care (Help Center; no guest phone line is published on a Burger King site)
Restaurant Brands International Privacy Officer (no dedicated estates team; Burger King routes Royal Perks account and data deletion here)
Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.)'s terms state that Crowns are forfeited when the account holder dies. Lifetime planning is the only path to extracting value from the account before that happens.
How to protect your Burger King Crowns
3 steps for managing your Burger King Crowns during your lifetime:
Should you save your passwords for your family?
Some people store account passwords so a family member can sign in later. The practice has three practical limits:
- Two-factor authentication often blocks it. Most accounts require a second factor — a code sent to a phone, an authenticator app, a passkey, or a physical key. A saved password alone frequently does not grant access, and the recovery codes that would are easy to lose or let go stale.
- It usually conflicts with the platform's terms. Most operators prohibit account sharing and signing in as another person, including after a death. Stored credentials are not the operator's recognized access path, and using them can violate the terms of service.
- Operators provide other paths. Where an operator offers a designation tool — Apple's Legacy Contact, Google's Inactive Account Manager, a beneficiary designation — that mechanism grants access the operator recognizes. A password manager's own emergency-access or legacy feature passes credentials through a controlled process. Digital assets named in a will or trust give a fiduciary authority under each state's Revised Uniform Fiduciary Access to Digital Assets Act (RUFADAA).
Frequently asked questions
Treat Royal Perks as a non-transferable, no-cash-value loyalty perk rather than an inheritable asset. Redeem Crowns regularly so a balance does not expire (Crowns expire about six months after they are earned), and note the email or phone number on your Burger King account so any remaining Crowns can be redeemed for menu items before they lapse. Do not list Crowns as an asset an heir can inherit, because the account and Crowns are personal to you and cannot be transferred.
No. Royal Perks does not offer any beneficiary designation, and the account and Crowns are personal to you and may not be sold, transferred, assigned, or shared with family or others except as Burger King specifically permits at its sole discretion. Because there is no way to name a survivor and Crowns carry no cash value, the only way to capture their value is to redeem them for eligible menu items during your lifetime.
Recording that a Burger King account exists, alongside other accounts, gives a fiduciary the information needed to reach the operator through its official process.
Burger King does not support beneficiary designations. Unlike financial accounts, there is no way to name a beneficiary on this type of account.
Sources
Data sourced from Burger King Company LLC (Restaurant Brands International Inc.) primary sources (7 pages reviewed). How we research.
Burger King Guest Care (Help Center; no guest phone line is published on a Burger King site)
Restaurant Brands International Privacy Officer (no dedicated estates team; Burger King routes Royal Perks account and data deletion here)
