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    • I’ll Take a Beer With My Whopper?

    Cindy on January 22, 2010 at 8:52 am

    USA Today reports that Burger King will begin a trial run of selling Anheuser-Busch and MillerCoors beers with their Whopper Meals in South Beach, Florida beginning this February.

    Following their European counterparts which have been offering beer with meals for decades, Burger King will launch what they are calling their Whopper-Bar, or Burger-Bar, in South Beach, and if successful will likely expand the market to include Los Angeles, New York, and Las Vegas.

    This Whopper combo with a beer will cost $7.99 which is about $2.00 more than the same meal with a fountain drink. The beer alone (served in special aluminum bottles to keep them “extra cold”) is expected to cost $4.25.

    A Burger King restaurant consultant was quoted as saying, “The Burger King customer is aging, so they’re just trying to grow up with the customer.” Hmm… somehow the combination of South Beach, Whoppers, and beer, just doesn’t bring a mental picture of “maturity” to my mind.

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    7 Comments

    1. Felix

      It’s about time, I would also like a beer at the movies! Alcohol is not evil like PC Americans would like you to believe.

      January 22, 2010 @ 10:20 am
    2. Cindy

      When I lived in Germany you could get beer at McDonalds and beer and wine and any movie theater, served to you by a cocktail waitress. I really enjoyed that (the wine+movies, not McD’s, not a fan of fast-food).

      I just thought the final comment made by the restaurant consultant was comical, given the first locale they are going to market.

      I don’t think “PC Americans” consider alcohol evil. People can do evil things while drinking, but that’s a whole different issue.

      January 22, 2010 @ 10:36 am
    3. John

      I like Whoppers. They taste like the old McDLT that I was a fan of in college. I could see myself ordering a beer with that. It’s amazing how watery Bud light can grow on you if you just keep drinking it.

      Not at the drive thru though.

      January 22, 2010 @ 9:50 pm
    4. Rick

      There is a God.

      January 23, 2010 @ 1:40 pm
    5. Keith

      Beer at the movies is great! Unless the movie is more than 2 hours long, in which case the true value of the old style interval becomes more than apparent. Fortunately for me, the cinema where I work as a projectionist has an interval to allow for the organ to appear from beneath the stage and patrons to purchase refills of sherry.

      Now that’s civilised.

      January 23, 2010 @ 2:20 pm
    6. Jim

      It is rumored that McDonalds will soon be offfering medical marijuana at all of it’s locations in Southern California. There motto will be, “Hey, if you’re hurting and not hungry, take a few hits of this stuff and that Big Mac will taste ten times better than anything you’ve ever stuffed in your piehole.” Long motto but the marketing folks think it will work.

      January 23, 2010 @ 5:43 pm
    7. Ralph Short

      Personally, I believe this is winning marketing idea, fast food and a fast beer and you are on your way.

      Of course, based on some of the stocks I have bought, I could be wrong but I will project a winner here.

      January 23, 2010 @ 6:59 pm

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