Burger King says they're going cage-free and proud to be, promising to stop using cramped chicken and pig cages. It says it'll use 100% cage-free eggs in all U.S. restaurants by 2017 and buy pork from suppliers who show proof that they're ending the use of gestation crates for breeding sows. More »
Burger King is trying to change its image — no more dudes cramming fries and Whoppers in their mouths. It's time to cater for moms, families and older people snacking and drinking smoothies. The company is going to shell out lots of cash over the next year to complete this magical makeover, with changes to the stores, marketing campaign and of course, the menu. More »
Both Burger King and Wendy's have been attempting to revamp their look and their menus in recent years, but it looks like whatever Wendy's is doing is working slightly better as the fast food company edged out Burger King to become the second-largest burger chain — and the #3 overall fast food joint — in the country. More »
Health advocates in England, where every meal comes with a grayish sausage and a pint of warm beer, are up in arms about Burger King's new Smoked Bacon & Cheddar Double Angus burger and its 966 calories, and 58g of fat. These people have apparently never looked at the BK menu here in the former colonies. More »
For all those times you just need a Whopper but don't want to go through the bother of putting on real pants and heading for the drive-thru, Burger King is bringing good news in the form of a trial delivery service in certain stores in the U.S. More »
In the over 40 years since Wendy's began slinging burgers, the fast food chain has never been able to slip past competitor Burger King, which seemed to have a permanent lock on the runner-up slot behind McDonald's. But the newest numbers indicate that while the Ohio-based burger joint is set to leap-frog BK into the number two spot in total sales, even though it has almost 1,400 fewer stores in the U.S. More »
Last Friday, Burger King launched some new fries - offering free samples while supplies lasted. Our scientific sisters at Consumer Reports jumped in the car and headed to two Burger King locations near our shared Yonkers, NY, headquarters to see if they could detect any changes. More »
You know the economy is bad when crooks can't even afford decent stick-up weapons. Police have arrested a man who tried to rob a Burger King, using a sock. More »
Some of you may remember the BK Whopper Bar in New York City's 9.5" diameter Pizza Burger from 2010. Well, a version of that monster has crossed the globe to hit the stomachs of Japanese eaters. More »
Think you can scarf down a pile of Burger King Whoppers with the best of them? Well then you'll probably wish you were visiting Japan in the next couple weeks, as Burger King is set to launch a promotion that offers customers all the Whoppers they can devour — in the span of 30 minutes. More »
It's not unusual for a credit card thief to charge some outlandish amount to the victim's card, hoping to score big before setting off alarm bells. But police in Boca Raton, FL, say they are trying to hunt down a criminal who only charged about $14 at Burger King, ever day... for more than 50 days. More »
Someone has graffitied this Burger King billboard in downtown Seattle to transform it into criticism about how sugary fast food contributes to diabetes and the obesity crisis. More »
Forget free health care and cool winter hats, the real reason to move to Canada is poutine, better known as french fries smothered in melted cheese and scrumptious gravy. So now that we've heard that Burger King was starting to offer this dish to north-of-the-border customers, we want to know: What about us? More »
A Consumerist reader wrote in recently to tell us that not only was a refund not the issue after a small drive-thru problem at Burger King, but the fast food location didn't even want to hear some simple feedback. More »
While most people are used to the grayish, overcooked burgers often served at fast food mega-chains, inspectors for the Washington Dept. of Health have found what they call a "disturbing trend" of undercooked beef being served at Burger King. More »
Smaller fast-food chains that make "better" burgers are growing faster than their larger rivals, according to a new report — though in some cases, the chains are still very small. Shake Shack grew by 133% in 2010, and now has seven stores. Smashburger had the second highest growth rate, at 116%. and now has 93 branches. More »
It's been more than four years since we first posted The Really Big Guide To Secret Menu Items, in which readers shared their inside scoops on how to score hidden fast food gems like "Naked Chicken" at Popeyes or take advantage of TGIFriday's Five Easy Pieces policy. There have been several requests to update and expand the list, so we're going back to the source: you. More »
Almost a year ago, our survey-loving siblings at Consumer Reports asked several thousand readers to rate burgers from 18 burger chains and to no one's surprise, McDonald's came in dead last. Not satisfied with merely finding the best and worst beef-on-a-bun, CR decided to go for the super-sized option, rating 53 restaurants in five categories to find which ones provide the best food, service and value to customers. More »
Looking for something to watch but don't really like shows with scripts, actors or dramatic arcs? Then Burger King and DirecTV have come up with a channel for you, especially if you want a free Whopper. More »
Swinging the pendulum away from their "Meat Monsters" offering, Burger King is dropping slider-style BK Bites on Japan in a variety of meat patties. Besides the usual beef, you can get a chicken patty or a Spam patty. That's right, delicious Spam. And it's for the ladies. "What Women Want, Women Get," is the tagline for the Spam and BLT mini combo, which the chain describes as "lighter" and "suitable for women." I can only hope something is getting lost in translation, but methinks it's not really. More »
What do you get when you take a cheeseburger, slap some bacon on it, pile on another hamburger patty, and then finish it all off with a chicken breast? In my home it would be called a "snack" but at Burger King, it's now known as the "Meat Monster." Unfortunately, this monster will only be attacking the hearts of burger buyers in Japan... for now. More »
What in the world is going on with the Burger King customers in Florida. Earlier this month, there was the woman who climbed over the counter and chased employees out of the building. Now she's been done one better by a bikini-clad customer who caused a wild scene — which was luckily all caught on video. More »
The King has fired his jester. Burger King is parting ways with its ad agency, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, with whom it has worked since 2004. While the work never succeeded in toppling McDonald's as number 1 hamburger slinger, it certainly recreated Burger King in the consumer mindspace and helped usher in a new era of advertising. Adfreak rounds up what they think are the 15 most quintessential CP+B+BK ads. I'd have to agree with their top pick, the infamous "Whopper Virgins" series where they brought Burger King and McDonald's hamburgers to remote Thai hill villagers and Transylvanian farmers and videotaped their taste test. More »
Burger King's new CEO Bernardo Hees has ticked off some customers in Jolly Old England after an off-the-cuff remark he made during a recent lecture made its way across the pond. More »
Do you like to mix and match your fast food items? Stephen was contemplating the current pricing structure of the Burger King Stacker, and realized that the modular sandwich relies on some strange math. Sure, you can pay more and receive more patties, but the best deal comes if you're willing to toss out two buns and combine three single Stackers into a sort of Ultimate Triple Stacker. More »
A Burger King customer in South Florida was so peeved at the fast food eatery's staffers that she crawled over the counter and began tossing food at them. Luckily, it was all caught on camera. More »
We've already talked about the place in the lower 48 states farthest away from a Big Mac, but what about those cities where you couldn't swing a cat (not that we'd ever recommend swinging a cat or any other animal) without hitting a fast food joint? More »
The next time your snooty European friend goes off on a rant about obese, burger-eating Americans blah blah blah, you can just shut him up by pointing to these super-long beasts from Burger King that are not available stateside. More »
The idea of jalapenos and cheddar cheese on a Burger King burger doesn't sound so bad (unless you're not a fan of any one of those three things), but judging by the picture of BK's new Stuffed Steakhouse burger, we're not quite sure if the fast food chain made the right decision to actually put the peppers and cheese into the burger itself. More »
Be glad you're not in the UK right now, because we know you'd be beating down the doors of your local Burger King just to get your hands on the limited-time-only "Sprout Surprise Whopper," featuring that most beloved of burger add-ons, Brussels sprouts. More »
It's becoming more and more rare for customers to walk into a fast food restaurant and order individual meal components off the menu. Why do that when you can just order a #4 and get the sandwich, fries and drink together? It makes sense, but a new study says our penchant for buying bundled meals is causing us to eat more than we should. More »
Earlier today, a fight broke out between an employee at a Detroit Burger King and a 67-year-old customer. In the end, one man was behind bars and the other was dead. More »
You might remember the story from last week in which a Burger King customer was less than pleased when he looked at his receipt and saw that his order number had been replaced with the words "FUCK YOU". Now comes news that the employee responsible for the F-bomb and her manager have been given the sack. More »
It's bad enough that, after spending nearly $10 at a Sacramento, CA, Burger King, a customer found the words 'F*CK YOU' on his receipt in place of his order number; but the BK employee who felt compelled to take out their anger on the customer did it twice on the same receipt. More »
Lonefilms and his friend ate at Burger King and peeled off their instant win codes on their cups, which gave them a chance to win Kinect, Microsoft's motion and voice sensor. They received the exact same code, signifying that there's little significance to the 6-character combos Burger King is cranking out. More »
McDonald's may be the fast food chain most are associating with the recently approved kid's meal regulations in San Francisco, but when it comes to calories in meals targeted to youngsters, the Golden Arches is nowhere near the worst. More »
Even though the Burger King ad featuring a mail man singing about being chewed on by attack dogs hadn't been out long enough to be a Worst Ad In America 2010 nominee, we're pretty sure it will have one semi-famous person, Shorty Rossi of Animal Planet's Pit Boss, backing its nomination next year. More »
You're at a drive-thru, you've already paid and are stuck in line waiting for your food. You're at the mercy of an employee who may ask you to pull off to the side so the restaurant can cheat the timer so Corporate continues to think service is quick. But what do you do when the employee tells you to pull into a handicapped spot? More »
In the current issue of Consumer Reports, our science-minded siblings asked readers to rate the burgers at 18 different restaurant chains on a scale of 1-10. More »
Kings — especially ones with creepy face masks — are there to serve their subjects, so Burger King responded to complaints from critics by switching its source for palm oil in which to cook its delicacies. Led by Greenpeace, environmentalists had harangued the company from buying from a subsidiary of Sinar Mas, Indonesian outfit accused of deforestation. More »
Burger King, (financially) depressed after grappling with the economic downturn and constant scrapping with McDonald's, is going private. The Home of The Whopper loudly sighed today and agreed to an offer by private-investment firm 3G Capital Management for $24 a share. What went wrong? More »
Next time you're grabbing some breakfast with your children at McDonald's, Wendy's or Burger King, you might want to pay attention to the nutritional information for the kids meals you order. The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine just released its list of the Five Worst Fast Food Meals to highlight those G-rated meals with R-rated calorie counts. More »
Earlier this year, the burgers at quickly growing fast foodatrorium Five Guys made the Center for Science in the Public Interest's list of most calorie-filled meals in the country. Perhaps that's why the voters at the Zagat Guide recently chose Five Guys as the best burger in the country. More »
Burger King is launching its first kids' breakfast next week, a $3.38 package that will include an egg-and-cheese sandwich, fry-shaped apple slices, juice and a toy. While BK may be taking some heat for promoting the 410-calorie meal to kids, only parents are likely to be swayed. Burger King's real kiddie breakfast has long been the Cini-mini, and no right-thinking child will be swayed by fry-shaped apple slices when that's on the menu. And parents, you can get four Cini-minis for $1. More »
It hasn't been a good week on the other side of the pond for Burger King or Coca Cola. The fast food company got a kick in the rear for misleading customers about the size of its chicken sandwich, while the cola giant is left having to tell little kids not to Google "2 girls 1 cup" after a failed Facebook campaign. More »
Jenn patronizes what is possibly one of the fastest Burger King drive-thrus on record. That doesn't mean the fast food joint serves customers food quickly. She says its workers game the drive-thru timer system by asking people to pull off to the side after they order and wait to be served. More »
Anyone who has ever eaten too much Burger King has probably felt a bit sleepy afterward. But for at least two BK customers in Jacksonville, FL, that sensation might have come from the fact that their fast food had been spiked with prescription painkillers. More »
Here's a lesson for all food service workers who intend on punching out a customer — be sure to clock out before you unleash your fists of fury in the parking lot. More »
Back when the Xbox 360 was just a little baby, Burger King released a slew of $4 video games featuring the off-putting King character that weren't nearly as bad as you thought they'd be. More »
While Domino's has scrambled to re-imagine their pizza recipes and Pizza Hut continues to basically give away their pizzas for a pittance, it was Papa John's who apparently made the best impression on eaters in the last year. The Kentucky-based chain has topped not only its pizzeria rivals, but all fast foods in an annual survey of customer satisfaction. More »
Forget the Double Down or the McGangBang, the ultimate fast food burger has been found — the Frankenburger. And when I say "ultimate," I literally mean this could be the final thing you ever eat. More »
Who can beat the amazing McDouble? The answer may well be no one, but we'll put it to a vote to settle the score as to which fast food value menu is king. Yesterday we put a call out for nominations, and these are the contenders that emerged from the crop. More »
Reader Justin read our article about BK's new pork ribs and decided to see if his local BK had them. It did, so he put together a full report from the front lines. More »
The King hath won the latest round of a battle with upstart serfs, as a judge ruled that Burger King has the right to set maximum prices for some menu items. However, the indentured servants, er, franchisees that sued the chain over its value menu, are still planning to argue that the pricing system was entered into in bad faith. More »
Burger King is leaving Israel, after its local franchisee, Orgad Holdings, determined that customers preferred the burgers at its other eatery, Burger Ranch. "All the research carried out over the past few months shows beyond a doubt that the taste of Burger Ranch is the preferred taste for most Israelis," said Orgad's directors, who plan to convert their 52 Burger Kings into Burger Ranches. However, according to one Israeli burger lover and former BK manager, the culture clash is less about the beef and more about condiments. More »
A burger place in Nelson, NZ called "Seabreeze City Takeaways," had a burger on their menu called the "whopper," for 12 years before someone told Burger King, and now the chain is threatening to sue. More »
If your kids pester you into purchasing McDonald's Happy Meals, they could be severely disappointed the next time they visit Santa Clara County in California, where the county supervisors have voted to pass a law forbidding toys in Happy Meals and other fast food kids meals that don't meet the county's nutritional guidelines. More »
A fellow in the UK was recently sentenced to 12 months in the clink after using a broom handle to heist a bag of burger buns from his local Burger King. More »
According to a new report, Burger King is trying to class up their recently upgraded breakfast menu by testing so-called "brunch" selections, complete with "mimosas" in a handful of markets. Two problems: BK's brunch menu isn't offered any later than their breakfasts and those mimosas are really just OJ spiked with soda. More »
KFC's Double Down — the bacon sandwich where two pieces of fried chicken replace the bread — has been catching a lot of flack lately; much of it deserved. But a quick comparison of the nutritional (for want of a better word) info between the Double Down and some items on the menus at other fast food joints shows that the "warped creation of a syphilitic brain" might not be as bad for you as a salad at Wendy's. More »
A new study in the American Journal of Public Health states that several of the biggest U.S. health insurers are heavily invested in fast food companies, to the tune of $2 billion. This news has caused some to ask whether or not the insurance companies' vested interest in the growth of fast food stands in direct contrast to their interest in having healthy policy holders. More »
A year after being served a Whopper with some extra-special sauce inside, a sheriff's deputy in Washington state has filed a lawsuit against Burger King, claiming the company was negligent for having an employee that spat in his burger. More »
Micah and his wife ordered a Burger King Breakfast Bowl, with visions of something presentable dancing through their heads. So their disappointment with what they were actually served, pictured here, is understandable. More »
Because the last thing a soldier stationed thousands of miles away fighting the Taliban should want is a taste of home, the U.S. military is axing several fast food vendors from their bases in Afghanistan. More »
Burger King is taking a bit of flack from some mental health advocates who claim that a TV ad the fast food chain has been running in recent weeks is insulting to those suffering from mental illness. More »
For whatever reason, fast food joints seem to be a target for crimes of all sorts. Ranging from outlandish to horrific, we'll occasionally bring you The Grease Blotter, a round-up of the latest in crimes involving fast food chains. More »
For decades, the fast food muffin sandwich market has been dominated by McDonald's. But yesterday, Burger King launched a full-on attack on the McMuffin with the launch of their new Breakfast Muffin. More »
While it may not be as egregious as the Domino's Pizza employees who videotaped themselves desecrating their work kitchen, a Burger King employee in Michigan is in hot water after blabbing on Facebook about spitting in the food. More »
Have you ever had McSpaghetti? How about a basket of piping hot, deep-fried chicken livers from your local KFC? These are just a few of the not-so-popular menu items that made ChicagoNow's list of the 15 Worst Fast Food Fails. More »
Dear Burger King, are there really 10.5 quadrillion ways to customize a whopper? Or just 221,184? A demanding customer played around with the Burger King nutritional information section and has a few questions, and he expects some answers. More »
Apparently unclear about the whole "drive-thru" thing, a woman in Grand Rapids, MI, decided to actually drive her entire car through the window of her local Burger King last night. More »
Burger King's nutritional information page is apparently quite a lot of fun. If you find it necessary you can create a multi-patty superburger with 6880 calories. Instructions, inside. More »
I had always assumed that McDonalds' hamburger hegemony of the United States, if not the world, was complete. I was wrong. Clearly, I need to leave the Northeast more. The above map shows the dominant burger chains in different parts of the United States. The black dots represent the density of McDonald's, and other colors represent...everyone else. More »
You know how there are those people who, no matter what job they have, somehow retain a cheery outlook? And if you're grumpy like me you wish they'd go away, but secretly you marvel at how they spread cheer to everyone around them and make the day more pleasant? Well, that's one thing you'll no longer find at a Burger King in a Concord, NH, mall. The district manager put a stop to it. More »
Two Burger King workers in Jacksonville, Florida have been arrested and charged with "poisoning food with intent to kill or injure a person," reports WJXT. One customer took the bun off his fish sandwich to season it and found a blue pill smashed into mayo and lettuce. It turned out to be the painkiller hydrocodone. More »
If you like Starbucks coffee but you don't like paying coffee shop prices, starting this summer you should be able to order an iced-mocha-something from your nearest Burger King. The fast food chain is countering McDonald's recent coffee offerings by teaming up with Starbucks, and prices should be between $1-2.79 according to the Kansas City Star. More »
A black man is suing Burger King in a federal discrimination lawsuit because he says white Pennsylvania Burger King employees spat in his burger, the AP reports in a story on the Huffington Post. More »
Burger King has suffered two consecutive quarters of declining sales, and a Wall Street Journal says the drop is due to hard-core "super fan" Burger King eaters shying away from the chain in favor of, gulp, possibly healthier choices. More »
You can get beer at Burger King outlets in Germany, Singapore and Venezuela. In Japan, you can even get some whiskey with your Whopper. And, now, the U.S. becomes the latest country where you can really have it your way, at least in one "Whopper Bar" in Florida's South Beach.
According to USA Today, the new restaurant will open in mid-February, and could be the first of several brew-and-burger shops:
"Don't look for beer at conventional Burger Kings. That's not in the plans. But more Whopper Bars — which offer an assortment of burgers, toppings and beer — could be on tap in tourist hot spots such as New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, says Chuck Fallon, president of Burger King North America." More »
A man in Florida was arrested for allegedly firing a weapon into a dwelling after he lost his temper. The "dwelling"? A Burger King. The "weapon?" A beer bottle the fast food establishment wouldn't let him bring inside. More »
If you were looking for a reason other than the ridiculous price markup to avoid soda fountains, microbiologists from Hollins University — publishing in the International Journal of Food Microbiology — have got it for you: There's poo-related bacteria in half of them, the Huffington Post reports, citing blogger Tom Laskawy. More »
Reader Shane has been to 3 separate Burger Kings in the Orlando, FL area and he would like to know why all the $1 BK Double Cheeseburgers he buys are tiny. More »
Thanks to findings presented by the New York Times, the USDA took away an exemption from routine testing it had given to meat from Beef Products, Inc., which supplies ammonia-injected beef to grocery stores and fast food chains including McDonald's and Burger King. More »
—>What could be more American than celebrating the launch of a new product with an almost comically unhealthy fast-food product? Unfortunately, the seven-patty Windows 7 Whopper is only available in Japan. More »
—>In its latest effort to take the burger experience to a higher level — and win back consumers who've migrated to "fast casual" restaurants — Burger King is remodeling more of its eateries to include what His Highness describes as a "contemporary industrial palette of metallic and black accents, complemented by finishes that resemble brick and concrete." But will the fancy new look, which was relaunched this week in Amsterdam, get customers to eat more Whoppers? And how does a creepy guy in a plastic mask sell what the company calls an "intimate and engaging dining" experience? More »
—>We got a tip from someone today with a funny pic of a misspelled McDonald's sign at the University of Missouri campus in Columbia, MO. We thought we'd do a Google search to see if this was old news or not. What we found out was that "Angus" is too ripe a target for word vandals, or even just opportunistic photographers, to pass up. More »
—>If an employee of Burger King or other fast-food drive-throughs ever asks you to back up before pulling forward, they're most likely attempting to re-set the timer sensors so it appears you're being served faster. More »
—>Our sister-publication Consumer Reports tested new trans-fat free french fries from Wendy's, BK and McDonald's and have declared that... yeah they basically taste the same as they used to only they don't have trans fats. More »
—>Clifton forwarded us this shot of a new Burger King ad. We don't even want to know what's in the special sauce of the Super Seven Incher. More »
The really awesomely titled Pork Magazine says that Burger King will begin offering pork ribs at 300 locations in Las Vegas, Indianapolis, Greensboro, N.C., and Orlando, Fla. The ribs will be available in three, six or eight-piece servings. A dipping sauce will be included. Will you eat this? [Pork] More »
—>If we worked in fast food, we'd want to work at this Burger King, because you don't have to provide good service to score a perfect survey. You just have to give away food! Now take your free Whopper and get the hell out of here! More »
—>At least three Burger Kings in Memphis have recently displayed "GLOBAL WARMING IS BALONEY" on their letter boards, according to the Memphis Flyer and a reader. More »
—>A little over two years ago, a Virginia man ordered a a drink and two sandwiches from Burger King. He then proceeded to take a bite and swallow— before he realized that his "specific request for the omission of onions, pickles and tomatoes had not been complied with." The result? A lawsuit for $100,000 filed in the Virginia Beach Circuit Court. More »
—>Either this Burger King in Miami takes the competition really, really seriously, or the owner is into some pretty freaky s#@t. The store gets bonus absurdity points for framing it so handsomely. More »
—>Consumer research company Experian Simmons (yes, owned by Experian), has released a new study of fast food industry covering the past 5 years, and it looks like we still love going to McDonald's more than any other fast food restaurant. More »
—>Mexican officials have taken issue with a new Burger King ad that suggests Mexicans aren't as tall as Americans and use the national flag as a poncho. More »
BK's gag gift $3.99 perfume that smells like a "flame broiled burger" is selling out all over NYC. Where did they get perfume that smells like flame-broiling? Hmmm... "What do ya think's in the burgers?" [MSNBC] More »
—>Burger King has changed the names, but not the actual sizes or prices, of their various products. Instead of having a "king" size, the largest size is now called "large." The names are now "value", "small", "medium" and "large." This is seen as misleading, because customers not used to the change are accidentally ordering the wrong size. More »
—> Burger King has some 'splainin to do. When Reader Evan ordered a pie, he presumed that the stated expiration date was truthful... until he peeled back the layers of deception. Full story inside. More »
—>A Burger King employee who took a bath in the burger chain's sink is probably regretting that someone filmed it and posted the video to MySpace, because the local Health Department was among those viewers who were not amused. More »
Subway's kids' meals came out on top. Only a third of its Fresh Fit for Kids meals, which include a mini-sub, juice box, and one of several healthful side items (apple slices, raisins, or yogurt), exceed the 430-calorie threshold. Subway is the only chain that doesn't offer soft drinks with kids' meals.So how do you improve the nutrition of your kid's meal the next time you eat at a restaurant? A spokeswoman for the American Dietetic Association gave the following advice:
"Don't be too alarmed even when [studies] come out and seem hopeless," said Dawn Jackson Blatner, an American Dietetic Ass>ociation spokeswoman. "With a few swaps and switches, people really can make healthier choices at these fast-food joints, especially when the decisions are made before going in. More »
—>A Burger King in Houston, TX has had it with bathroom vandalism, so they've installed a pay toilet. You can operate it with your own quarters, or you can request a token— but either way you have to feed the machine in order to... you know... says the Houston Chronicle.More »
—>Taking aim at health-conscious mothers, Burger King recently introduced its new "healthy" kids meal, the AP reports. The meal consists of a 4 ounce serving of Kraft Macaroni and Cheese, lowfat milk, and "Fresh Apple Fries" all for $3.49. The apple fries are, quite simply, sliced apples cut in the shape of french-fries and served in a french-fry style container. The slices are treated with lemon juice to prevent browning. Also included is a packet of low fat caramel sauce for dipping. The delicious details, inside... More »
—>How decaffeinated is your decaf exactly? That's what Consumer Reports aimed to uncover when they sent their shoppers to sample 36 cups of decaffeinated coffee from 6 locations of Burger King, Dunkin' Donuts, McDonald's, Seattle's Best Coffee, 7-Eleven and Starbuck's near their headquarters in Yonkers, NY. See the results, inside... More »
Yes, this is another installment in our continuing coverage of how "American" fast food is eaten in other countries. In our last episode you met the "Angus 6-pack" a giant burger meant to be pulled apart into smaller burgers. Today Burger King would like to introduce you to "The Burger." It's their attempt to enter the Guinness Book of World records for the most expensive burger. Yawn. Here's where it gets more fun: The Telegraph asked some people on the street to sample the burger and tell them if it was worth $185 (£95.) More »
Robert Downey Jr. says he gave up drugs after Burger King served him " a cheeseburger so disgusting that it forced him to reassess his entire life." The burger was so nasty that he suddenly felt like something terrible was going to happen to him, so he threw all his drugs into the ocean and has been clean ever since. One man's complaint is another's life changing epiphany, we suppose. [OK!] More »
—>You know how Burger King is always closed and you have to go to Taco Bell? And you don't even like Taco Bell? No more. Burger King has announced that it will be staying open until 2 am. More »
—>Continuing our occasional coverage of strange foods that US companies offer in other parts of the world (Cucumber Pepsi? Strawberry Cheetos?) meet the "coming soon" Burger King 6-pack. More »
—>Last week a Florida journalist busted Burger King VP Stephen Grover for using his tween-aged daughter's email account to slam a farm workers group—but that wasn't the only weird email event related to this story. Now Burger King is taking steps to officially distance itself from Grover's actions and the other internal emails by announcing it's launched an "internal investigation" into all three. More »
—>The next time Burger King VP Stephen Grover goes online to spread FUD about labor advocates, he should probably leave his daughter out of it. For one thing, she's a horrible accomplice and will spill her guts to the first reporter who calls. For another thing, this forthrightness clearly makes her too ethical to smear a group that's trying to bring pay for tomato pickers up to living wage levels. More »
Manhattan rents are driving away Burger King! Franchise owners say they were forced to close their restaurants because they couldn't afford to offer the mandatory 99-cent menu. They were paying between $9,000 -$18,000 per location. [Gothamist] More »
—>Burger King ejected 25 low-income residents who were waiting for the Red Cross to arrive after their Minneapolis apartment caught fire and burned to the ground. An assistant manager explained that the fire had slowed foot traffic to "virtually nothing," and that the crowd had to either wait somewhere else or deal with the police. More »
—>A $22.43 sack of burgers turned into a huge pain in the ass when Burger King accidentally debited $2,243 from Bryan Sampson's bank account, leaving him overdrawn and unable to use his debit card lest the overdraft charges keep piling up. Burger King said the manager wasn't available to correct the mistake because it was a holiday weekend... but the local media was happy to answer the phone. More »
—>We took a look at the big three burger joints—McDonald's, Wendy's and Burger King to locate the most butt-blimping, ass-widening, delicious-but-probably-not-worth-it fast food burgers we could find from a top national chain. More »
—>Burger King has been fighting with tomato pickers in southern Florida for two years, refusing to pay a penny more per pound. Now the burger chain has announced that they may simply buy their tomatoes somewhere else. More »
—>Van Miguel Hartless is suing the owner of a Rutland Burger King after biting into a Southwestern Whopper that contained a used condom. When Hartless complained to the manager, he "laughed off the incident." More »
—>Some press releases we wish were actually jokes. This is one of them. Burger King has announced that it will be launching a line of snack foods that will include, among other things, potato chips flavored like "Ketchup and Fries." More »
products cooked in trans fat free oil tasted the same or better than products cooked in the traditional oil. We are proud to offer a healthier oil with the same great taste." Hooray for fewer trans fats. More »
—>Hawaiians love Spam! They love it so much that McDonald's offers it on their breakfast menu in Hawaii, and now Burger King is getting into the act. It's a Spam war! More »
—>Anything KFC can do, Burger King should be able to do too, right? That's what the Center For Science in the Public Interest is saying with a lawsuit against Burger King accusing the chain of dragging its heels on the trans fat issue. More »
—>According to a recent survey, chain restaurants are failing to satisfy their customers. The survey of over 3,000 people showed across the board performance drops from last year; customer satisfaction for McDonald's, Taco Bell, and Burger King all fell by more than 5%. KFC fell by 8.5%. More »
—>Guadalupe Pequino of Fountain Inn, South Carolina bought $8.64 worth of food from Burger King with her Visa Check Card. Unfortunately for Guadalupe, the cashier typed in $8,648.54 as her total and the amount was debited from her account. The restaurant corrected the error, but it took 5 days for the money to find its way back into Guadalupe's account. "It was an honest mistake, and the store has done everything it can to credit the account," the Burger King general manage said. More »
—>The organization that is always pestering fast food giants to pass some of their profits along to farm workers by paying $0.01 more for tomatoes has scored a major victory with McDonald's. From BusinessWeek:
Under the agreement, a third party will verify that farmworkers who pick McDonald's tomatoes will receive the increase. Oak Brook, Ill.-based McDonald's will also require its suppliers to follow a workplace code of conduct that the workers would help create. More »
Animal rights advocates praised Burger King for its new commitment to begin buying eggs and pork from suppliers that do not keep their animals in cages or crates. More »
—>Yes, according to MSN, Russ Klein, Burger King's president of global marketing strategy, has announced a Burger King movie starring the creepy masked "Burger King." He tells MSN that Burger King has already "lined up a studio and distributor for a feature film." More »
UPDATE: We're looking to update this list. Click here to help! Not content ordering from the menu? Need to have that extra little bit of class that comes from "knowing the chef"? Here it is, your guide to secret menu items. Sure, it's not the secret rib eye at Nobu, but it's something. Before reading this please note that this article has not been fact-checked. This report is based purely on reader suggestions. We are posting them entirely without confirmation and are not going to try to order any of this crap in order to confirm its existence. We would die of heart disease, be broke, and our ass would be the size of Texas. This is the internet, the internet is not fact-checked, and these are your secret menu items. Enjoy.
The menu will feature 10 offerings with prices beginning at $1, including French toast sticks, a sausage biscuit, hash browns, cinnamon buns, coffee, milk, soda, orange juice and a new Hamlette sandwich, made with ham, cheese and egg. More »
To ask Burger King Corporation to pay a penny more a pound for tomatoes to increase workers' wages is similar to asking shoppers to voluntarily pay a penny more per pound at the grocery store for tomatoes to increase workers' wages. Both Burger King Corporation and grocery store shoppers have no business relationship with the workers and cannot get the extra penny to them.
Since they don't want to seem, like, heartless or anything, Burger King has offered to work with the CIW to send human resources folks from BK down to the farm: More »
"Burger King Holdings Inc., the world's second-largest hamburger chain, said Tuesday that quarterly earnings rose a better-than-expected 40 percent as an Xbox 360 video game promotion spurred sales in the U.S."
Yikes. Are those games any good? —MEGHANN MARCO More »
Fast-food chain Burger King Holdings Inc. on Wednesday said it started testing in its restaurants several trans-fat free cooking oils and plans to roll one out nationwide in late 2008. More »
If you need another reason not to eat fast food, here it is: A manager of a California Burger King was caught using the drive-thru to sell methamphetamine. The customer would place their food order (and their drug order) through the drive-thru ordering system and manager Michelle Filby would fill it. More »
The menu will feature 10 offerings with prices beginning at $1, including French toast sticks, a sausage biscuit, hash browns, cinnamon buns, coffee, milk, soda, orange juice and a new Hamlette sandwich, made with ham, cheese and egg. More »
When I finished watching this weeks episode of Scrubs, I was prompted by a rather annoying TiVo message. "Are you done with this program?" But this was not the regular TiVo deletion prompt. I am usually given two options, "Delete now" or "Keep this recording", this time I was given a third, "Get your BK Xbox games today!" followed by the Burger King logo.
Um, this is annoying and lame. —MEGHANN MARCO More »
A couple of police officers in Los Lunas, New Mexico ate about half of their Whoppers when all of a sudden, they noticed they were feeling pretty... mellow. Removing the bun, they discovered that the patties were peppered with mary jane. Pot. Marijuana to you squares. More »
You know, it's funny. If they had just made this commercial starring one of Burger King's more gelatinous and rotund customers, they doubtlessly wouldn't have had to CGI that thin, serpentine Asian man unhinging his jaw. After all, they're used to not chewing. More »
In which a woman calls 911 to get them to come "enforce" the way Burger King won't make her a Western Bacon Cheeseburger the way she wants. The 911 operator handles herself with incredulous aplomb. More »
—>In a city seething with corrupt officials, rife with crime and poverty, what's public enemy number one to the city alderman? Why, the gelatinous blob of trans fat stalking through the city streets, engorging itself upon hapless citizens. More »
—>Why bother to pay for product placement when you can just make a whole damn movie? Burger King and Crispin Porter & Bogusky agree and have announced their intention to bring the burger to the big screen. More »
Misogynist reinterpretations of female empowerment songs always bring a smile to our faces, especially when it involves what appears to be a concerted campaign to give every man in American a quadruple simultaneous heart attack. More »
There's two requirements for making an ad in Germany. One: near-graphic sex. Two: the sex is thwarted by the promise of an inane consumer item. More »
For George and Pat Beane, the cost of four Burger King sandwiches was more than the contribution to the downfall of man and the raping of the working class Mogran Spurlock indoctrinated them about. After ordering two whopper Jr's and a two Rodeo cheeseburgers through drive through, they got charged for over four thousand three hundred dollars. More »
—>CNN has an article up, explaining the cutting-edge technological battle between the fast food chains: drive-thru automation. It will surprise none who have experienced the annoyance of trying to order a cheeseburger through a fuzzy, warbling speaker from an anonymous immigrant on the other end that the strategy these companies are banking on is absolutely clueless. What will companies like Burger King and Wendy's be doing to guarantee a better drive-thru experience for you, the consumer? One: outsource your order to call centers, possibly in India. Two: use computer programs that guess your upcoming order. More »
