Thus far in its life, the McRib has had a solitary existence, with nary another rib-shaped piece of meat out there to keep it company. So rejoice, McDonald’s! Your boneless hunk of rib-ish meat will have new friend soon, when Burger King unveils its summer 2013 menu, including its limited-time BK Rib Sandwich. [More]
Burger King: Hey Guys, McDonald’s Isn’t The Only One Who Can Do A Rib-Shaped Sandwich
By May 15, 2013
Study: Nearly Half Of U.S. Consumers Went To McDonald’s In March
By May 2, 2013
A new study attempts to determine the businesses that American consumers visit most often. Not surprisingly, the list is dominated by places that sell food; and that McDonald’s was by far the most-visited business in the U.S. [More]
Burger King’s Expansion Of Delivery Service To 3 More Cities Greeted By Cheers From The Couch
By April 23, 2013
Way back in the beginning of 2012, Burger King started testing the waters of delivery service with a trial run in Washington, D.C. and soon expanded to certain locations in Houston, Miami and New York. Sounds like those tests were a hit: stay-at-home diners in Chicago, Los Angeles and San Francisco will never have to put on real pants again to get fast food, as the service is headed to those metropolitan areas as well. [More]
move ahead to the second windowWondering if your Whopper dollar is going as far as it did in 2002? Or maybe you want to know how Wendy’s new focus on higher quality ingredients has impacted your wallet? And why hasn’t the price of a Frosty gone up in 11 years? Cockeyed.com has some side-by-side pricing comparisons of fast food drive-thru menus from 2002 and the present day. [Cockeyed]
No, McDonald’s Did Not Buy Burger King Because “The Whopper Flopped”
By February 19, 2013
You can’t believe everything you read on Twitter, even if it’s on the official account of a company like say, Burger King. Proving that anything on the Internet can be futzed with, someone took over Burger King’s Twitter account yesterday and announced that the chain had been sold to McDonald’s because “the Whopper flopped.” [More]
Burger King Remembers It Has A Value Menu It Should Probably Be Telling You About
By February 15, 2013
What do you think of when you hear the words, “dollar menu”? McDonald’s probably. How about “value menu”? Nothing? Yeah, that’s a problem, admits Burger King, confessing the company needs to start working on reminding people it’s got low-priced food items just like the other guys. [More]
If You’re Unhappy With Your Onion Rings, Don’t Slam Your Tray Into Burger King Employee’s Face
By February 4, 2013
Of all the things in the world that might be worth getting into a physical altercation over, Burger King onion rings are pretty far down the list for most people. Apparently that’s not the case for one couple in South Carolina. [More]
A Quest To Find The Best $1 Fast Food Burger
By January 31, 2013
You’re hungry. You’re stranded in suburbia. You only have a few bucks in your pocket. Which fast food dollar-menu burger should you choose? To find out, you’d need $6 (plus tax) and to drive all over town taste-testing the dollar offerings from every chain. Do you want cheese? Bacon? Flavor? Two patties? Fortunately, someone has done the legwork for you, without setting foot outside of his car. [More]
Funeral Procession Takes Trip To The Burger King Drive-Thru For One Last Meal
By January 29, 2013
Honoring the memory of the loved ones we lose is all part of the funeral ceremony, the ritual of bidding farewell and laying that person to rest. And the best way one man’s family could find to honor him just so happened to include not only the normal funeral rites, but about 40 Whopper Jrs. by way of a trip through the Burger King drive-thru for the funeral procession. [More]
Burger King Decides To Not Take The Chance Of Horse Meat Ending Up In Its Whoppers
By January 24, 2013
Burger King has decided to end its relationship with a meat processing company in Ireland that, last week, was among those found to be churning out some beef products containing small amounts of horse meat. [More]
Survey Says: McDonald’s Customers Aren’t Satisfied But They’re Likely To Return Anyway
By January 17, 2013
Do you have that one friend who you don’t like very much, but who is at least always available when you feel like doing something? That seems to be the way a lot of people view McDonald’s. [More]
Settlement Ends 4-Year Dispute About Spit In Burger King Customer’s Whopper Jr.
By December 21, 2012
In Nov. 2008, an Ohio man says he stopped into a Pennsylvania Burger King and got something a little extra on his Whopper Jr. — a dollop of employee spit. He subsequently sued the franchisee who operates the restaurant, alleging the incident was racially motivated. Well, the matter has finally been settled without going to trial. [More]
Burger King Japan Brings Back All-You-Can-Eat Burgers For One Week Only
By November 15, 2012
Fast food fans in Japan evidently couldn’t get enough Whoppers. At this time last year, we reported that they were offering an all-you-can-eat burger buffet to customers willing to accept the challenge. The deal is back on. From November 17 to November 21, diners who purchase a black burger meal will be able to gobble as many burgers and fries or onion rings as they can in the next half-hour. [More]
Is 2013 Going To Be The ‘Year Of The Bun’?
By November 7, 2012
It’s expected that the meat in your sandwiches at fast food and fast-casual restaurants is going to continue getting more expensive in the next year. Which means you’ll either be getting less of it or paying more (possibly both). So what better way to justify the value of that burger than to tart up the bread? [More]
The BK Bacon Burger Is A Disgrace To The Word ‘Bacon’
By October 23, 2012
Burger King recently released a $1 bacon burger. Only a dollar and it comes with bacon? Excellent. In a typical case of fast food advertising vs. reality, though. the bacon isn’t quite as advertised. Matt tried the burger and found that the reality is quite pitiful when compared to the luscious bacon-stuffed bun shown in photos. [More]
Study: Burger King Has The Slowest Drive-Thrus, But Does A Really Good Job Of Hiding The Dumpsters
By October 5, 2012
We’ve written any number of stories over the years of fights starting because a customer had to wait too long in a fast-food drive-thru lane. So according the results of a new study, impatient and easy-to-anger consumers might want to take a few deep breaths before picking up some Burger King. [More]
Anus Burgers Run Wild Across America’s Restaurant Signs
By September 24, 2009
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.
