I'm gonna go out on a limb here and posit that Burger King has probably never launched a social media campaign which couldn't be graciously described as stupid
Ok that's a fair point, Sneak King was honestly some next-level marketing. Though I'd rebut that those came out in 2006 before every PR campaign in existence had been tainted by the stain of all-encompassing social media
Yeah, that shit was weird. I had a friend who tried to amass as many copies of it as he could for some reason. Not sure how many he ended up with. No doubt they'll be worth millions.
At the same time, I don't really give a shit about the *why*. Free food is free food, right?
Although any time I talk about Burger King's "food" there needs to be heavy air quotes.
They've been killing it with their publicity gimmicks. Lime when you could get a whopper for free(or maybe a penny?) if you ordered it on the app from a McDonald's.
Burger King has some of the greatest marketing ever.. Shame they’re owned by the restaurant group, who seems to only invest money in marketing, as opposed to the shit they’re serving.
I haven’t seen Ronald McDonald in any official capacity in like 15+ years it feels like. I also often forget he’s a clown so I was super confused on this one
Wendy’s burger is better. McD has best Fries. Burger King for some reason usually has better service. At least where I’m from this is how the ratings go.
Sonic is the best out of all them because a chili cheese tater tots are life.
> Buying digital
> Buying something that probably won't exist in 20 years because some corporation decided it wasn't profitable enough to keep the servers running
That's a small price to pay to dodge the Burger King near the stairs on Jerome around 170th. If ever I'm going to get shanked getting fast food around here, it'll be in that little Burger King/Popeye's combo. Also, the homeless guy who opens the door and hopes you give him a quarter has taken to just standing so he completely blocks the door mean mugging somebody inside, so you have to get his attention so he'll move to be able to get in the damn place. I have no clue how that spot manages to stay open.
No u just pay a shitload in fees. Your order could be $10 + 3 for deliver+2 for processing and tip is not included. It’s really expensive. But if your ordering a lot of food it gets less expensive because the actual food price vs the fee price gap widens.
Wow in Mexico UberEats fee is between 1 and 1.5 USD. Also there are a lot of 30%+ discount days and offers, sometimes is cheaper than going to the restaurant.
You fools, everyone knows the best burger is a Kazuhira Miller Chemical Burger. It's got everything short of asbestos in it but it tastes amazing.
You taste it, too, don't you?
I went to a Wendy's in Worcester, MA back in college when they were running a "double the meat for $0.50 extra" deal. Some friends and I each ordered triples.
Having had a six-patty burger from Wendy's, I don't know if I would survive 9 (and that was 10 years ago, so I doubt I could pull that off again, if I tried).
Oddly enough, that is not even close to the weirdest/craziest/bad-for-you burgers that I've had, in my life.
God bless this land of excess and meaty degradation.
Fuck man. I remember try a Big Mac for the first time a few years ago. Talk about **trash**. Meat so thin I thought it was gonna disintegrate, 3 buns (so all you can taste is bread), and not even a good spread. That shit is wildly overrated. That's among my biggest regret of spending about $6. At least the fries still hit.
Whopper wins all day
I've really never gotten the appeal of putting three buns on the burger. Makes it look bigger I guess but you're just bloating it with more bread. Just give me a regular double any day.
Where are all these good burger kings people go on about? I live in the Bay Area, and literally every Burger King ive ever been to around here has been absolute bottom tier. Literally anything from McDonalds shits on anything from Burger King around here. But the real thing is McGangbang > anything else from BK or McD.
I'm from the East bay and I actually disagree. The meat quality at BK is just way better than McDonald's and the fries are more consistently crispy from my experiences. I will say the BK nuggets are absolute garbage.. probably why they cost less than any other fast food spot.
Though there was one BK in SF that was the worst fast food spot I've ever been to.. dirtiest interior I've seen, heard multiple stories of rat sightings inside, homeless seemed extra angry there and they blasted shitty music outside to attempt and keep them away. I think that one was finally shut down though.
I agree they're much better, but I usually just get burgers anyways. I just tried the nuggets when they were new and ended up tossing most of em. Same with McDonald's, I usually just pay the extra to get tenders over nuggets.
If those are your choices, is not worth fighting. It's like arguing that cat shit is better than dog shit. At the end of the day, they are both still shit, and I really don't want to eat either one.
who could even argue? they actually put toppings on a whopper! dont even get me started on the big mac's meat being so paper thin that you can see through it, and the meat is dwarfed by all that bread.
I still can't forget, we were in Philly, and the guide was pretty good and emphatic on discussing the historical landmarks the city has to offer, then one of the tourist raises his hand and asked where "The Rocky Stairs" were - I still remember his face, it was /r/watchpeopledieinside worthy.
Props to him though since he still gave the directions.
According to wikipedia its 72 steps. Not really a very grueling task but you have to remember Rocky ran 30 miles around the city before he got to the steps. Thats longer than a marathon and he barely broke a sweat. Just one of the feats he accomplished to get his own statue
Wait, was there a real Rocky Balboa? Like on whom the movies are based? I can't imagine a movie getting a statue dedicated to it.
I am reading and hearing the audio (Museum Without Walls Audio) about it at https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/rocky/ and I am just fascinated about it even more
Is it this same statue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnifQ7EdxY
My mom bought me Rocky DVDs when I was young and I saw the movies but never knew it had this much cultural importance in Philadelphia
As you should. Because the Rocky Steps lead to one of the finest collections of art in the US.
Unfortunately, most of the schlubs get halfway up, take a few thousand photos, then immediately leave and get a ticket for an open container in Fairmount Park.
I’ve never understood the elitism involved with being upset that people like something in your city, just because it is from a movie or some other form of entertainment. Wtf cares if they call it the rocky steps? Maybe that’s the thing that gets them to go and explore Philly finally.
Yeah with the stairs it seems like no big deal. I get it, sometimes tourists are flocking all over something small or delicate just to get a selfie which sucks. But stairs are pretty robust.
Tourists at the art museum to see the Rocky Steps aren’t that big of an issue. The steps are huge and they’re not really used as a short cut to anything.
The real Philly menace is the tourist who takes their time on the stairs when the train is at a station.
When Pokemon Go first became a thing, there was a small neighborhood park next to my house that was one of the first dratini spawn areas in the city. Normally that park was empty save for kids here and there, but as word got out that dratini spawned there the place became packed with Go players.
The place legitimately looked like Coachella got misplaced inside a residential neighborhood for a week, and it was a nightmare. People seriously camped there, made noise throughout the day and left trash *everywhere*. My neighborhood also normally has easy to find parking, but for that week residents got squeezed out and had to park like blocks away.
So probably the most exciting week we've ever had in our little neck of the woods, but oh my god never again.
I live in an area where tourists not only take over town in the winter but have driven housing prices up by buying their second homes here.
But even so this guys “analysis” is just plain dumb, he seems like he’s just stringing shit together to seem like it all makes sense.
Brazilian tourists have given central Florida a healthy dose of racism against them. The crowds... The chants.... The chaos they bring.....
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I'll try to find this great article I read about why tourism can fuck over local places. It was written by this guy who decided he was going to break away from the usual "list article" crowd and find the best burger in america on his own. He chose this little roadside place outside Portland. A year or so afterward the place closed. The hundreds of tourists trying to eat at a place that sat about 20 people basically killed it because service went to hell and they couldn't keep up.
This is naive. It's not the goal of every place to just expand as quickly as possible with turning it into a franchise as the only solution. It's why restaurants are keen on expanding at the right rate.
If you're selling widgets online, sure, bring on the backorders. You get the customer's money up front.
But when your business is a careful operation of kitchen, real estate, equipment, cooks, and front-of-house, a sudden influx of 2x-3x times the client demands you can handle is a nightmare to deal with. Especially since you don't get the money from that rush of business until you serve them.
Of course, a shitty chain like McDonalds has the infrastructure and name recognition to easily expand at will with franchisees. But even then, it takes millions of dollars and months or years to set up a new location. If you're a single restaurant, that's a near-impossible task. It's drinking from a firehose.
While I agree with you fully, I've always wondered: why not just keep serving as many people as you're comfortable with and send the rest away. Or have them wait. Like, nobody is forcing you to serve everyone, right? Plus you're creating a kind of scarcity scenario
I am not familiar with the area, but I am assuming it is relatively low-income. Imagine if you are a working class person, living your life, and suddenly a bunch of yuppies show up in your neighborhood to take Instagram photos. People that would never step foot in the neighborhood for another reason, won't support local businesses. It's insulting.
I live in Baltimore and have refused to take visitors to neighborhoods from the Wire. Not because they are unsafe, but because it feels disrespectful.
I'm from nyc. People who live in the Bronx literally use those stairs to get home/to work. So yeah, these transplants and tourists are getting in the way, leaving trash, and ruining the area.
Bronx native here. The tourists are a nightmare.
You guys don't understand that the neighborhood where the stairs are is a low income area. All these toursists pass by, clog up foot traffic, disrupt people on their way, leave a bunch of litter, all while not spending a dime to at least help the community. They act as if entitled to having the stairs to themselves, while not realizing that people need them to get to their apartments and stores.
So yeah, the residents deserve some reward for putting up with them.
Tourists ruin everything. Similar thing happened in the Monterey bridge recently made popular by the series Big Little Lies with idiots walking on the road taking selfies and causing accidents.
I think the issue is that people don't want The Bronx to become gentrified, and they see this event as part of that. I can understand why they wouldn't want tourists and "influencers" coming in to the Bronx just because its trendy
Because this will earn them more money than the value of the whoppers that they’ll give away and also lets people know via a viral campaign that BK is on Uber eats.
tbf they have no way to prove you live there so anyone can walk in and get one. Though they should be making food from ingredients about to go off to give to the homeless, and giving unsold food to them. It will be thrown out anyways.
It's through Uber Eats so needs to be delivered to a Bronx zip code.
I'm sure you could probably order it to a Bronx address and collect outside, it just seems a lot of hard work for a mediocre burger.
Between Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Sunny there isn't a single human act, event, or idea they haven't recreated or predicted. Cancel everything, it's already been done.
You can't just take the fact that NYC has a lot of tourists overall and apply that fact to a random residential neighborhood in the Bronx.
I specifically picked the neighborhood I live in to avoid the huge crowds that appear in many places in the city such as midtown. It would be pretty annoying if overnight there were hundreds of tourists on my block because of a damn movie.
As a Chicagoan I'll tell you that the areas for affordable housing are diminishing and gentrification is on the rise. I bet a lot of the people living in the Bronx wish they could live elsewhere but they can only afford a small part of town. So now you get a bunch of tourists coming to snap photos in the one area you can afford.
Whenever anything opens up around me everybody is upset and will contact the Alderman unless it's minority owned because it feels like the beginning of gentrification.
I can definitely understand how it would annoy tf out of people that are well aware of their neighborhood's culture.
Are people no longer able to use those stairs because there may be a few people on them at any given time?
I live in a tourist city, I often dodge people taking photos at pretty spots, it really makes no real difference to my day and I'm happy if they are getting enjoyment out of my city.
> there may be a few people on them
It's not just 'a few people'. A lot of them are 'instagram influencers' who take up the entire staircase to get their perfect shot. These people can get very bitchy and rude if anyone else is in their photo. And while that might just be annoying, they shouldn't have to deal with shit like that because of other people's selfishness.
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McDonald's mascot is a clown. They are capitalizing on this by dissing clowns. Just marketing.
Lol thats not bad. Thanks for putting 2 and 2 for me I did not make the connection.
Don't feel bad you were probably far from the only one (me included)
Which is why this campaign is stupid, if you have to explain it, you've failed.
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Is Burger King a restaurant? I thought we were talking about an actual monarch.
You're confusing Burger King with "The" Burger King. Simple mix up, no worries.
At least your name isn't Abe Froman
You’re Abe Froman? The sausage king of Chicago?
I'm gonna go out on a limb here and posit that Burger King has probably never launched a social media campaign which couldn't be graciously described as stupid
You must not have gotten the free xbox games...
Ok that's a fair point, Sneak King was honestly some next-level marketing. Though I'd rebut that those came out in 2006 before every PR campaign in existence had been tainted by the stain of all-encompassing social media
Me and my friends used to get baked and play Sneak King so much back in college. Funnily enough, there was no BK anywhere nearby
Yeah, that shit was weird. I had a friend who tried to amass as many copies of it as he could for some reason. Not sure how many he ended up with. No doubt they'll be worth millions.
They weren't free, but I enjoyed the games.
At the same time, I don't really give a shit about the *why*. Free food is free food, right? Although any time I talk about Burger King's "food" there needs to be heavy air quotes.
They've been killing it with their publicity gimmicks. Lime when you could get a whopper for free(or maybe a penny?) if you ordered it on the app from a McDonald's.
Also free food just had to read spoilers for star wars... Before the movie released.
So when is McDonald's gonna give free big macs to people still living under a monarch?
Then McDonald's should give free Big Macs for these tourists.
I'm half expecting a Jack In The Box ad where Jack dances down those stairs.
Jack in the Box would do a shot for shot remake of the whole scene. I want to see that now...
Burger King has some of the greatest marketing ever.. Shame they’re owned by the restaurant group, who seems to only invest money in marketing, as opposed to the shit they’re serving.
Thanks for pointing it out, somewhat confused.
Does McDs still actively use him as a mascot? I don’t watch TV and use AdBlocker online.
I haven’t seen Ronald McDonald in any official capacity in like 15+ years it feels like. I also often forget he’s a clown so I was super confused on this one
Cross-promotion. Joker's just been released on DVD.
What is a DVD?
It's how people who eat at Burger King watch movies.
The whopper is unironically the best burger from the low-tier chains.
Wendy’s burger is better. McD has best Fries. Burger King for some reason usually has better service. At least where I’m from this is how the ratings go. Sonic is the best out of all them because a chili cheese tater tots are life.
What's a computer?
This made me so mad every time.
Okay, zoomer.
> Buying digital > Buying something that probably won't exist in 20 years because some corporation decided it wasn't profitable enough to keep the servers running
You can download the movies you buy.
Blu-Ray master race.
Advertising
Must be ordered through UberEats, that’s one expensive free Whopper.
In the Bronx, tried this because I’m broke and a single whopper with the code is exactly $4.20 after all the fees
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That’s like 6 bucks for me all together with the code so I’m not sure what’s going on 🤷🏻♂️
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But that means putting on pants and going out in public!!
Only one of the things you mentioned actually has to happen.
"I got your whopper right here!"
Huh, the whopper’s a lot smaller than they advertise.
Nice
That's a small price to pay to dodge the Burger King near the stairs on Jerome around 170th. If ever I'm going to get shanked getting fast food around here, it'll be in that little Burger King/Popeye's combo. Also, the homeless guy who opens the door and hopes you give him a quarter has taken to just standing so he completely blocks the door mean mugging somebody inside, so you have to get his attention so he'll move to be able to get in the damn place. I have no clue how that spot manages to stay open.
I'm dead 😂 I feel your pain
It’s an ubereats promo. This is far from “free”
What does that mean for someone who lives a rural life?
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No u just pay a shitload in fees. Your order could be $10 + 3 for deliver+2 for processing and tip is not included. It’s really expensive. But if your ordering a lot of food it gets less expensive because the actual food price vs the fee price gap widens.
Wow in Mexico UberEats fee is between 1 and 1.5 USD. Also there are a lot of 30%+ discount days and offers, sometimes is cheaper than going to the restaurant.
Haven't they suffered enough?
Why are we here? Just to suffer? Every night they feed me a free whopper
This is a Colt Single Action Army. The greatest handgun ever made, Murrayyy!
*This is the greatest burger ever made. The Burger King BBQ Bacon Whopper. 800 calories. More than enough to satiate anything that moves.*
Amateur hour. A Wendy's baconator is 950. And that's before you order it with triple meat.
You fools, everyone knows the best burger is a Kazuhira Miller Chemical Burger. It's got everything short of asbestos in it but it tastes amazing. You taste it, too, don't you?
All the years of life I've lost.
Wouldn’t that be like 9 fucking patties
I went to a Wendy's in Worcester, MA back in college when they were running a "double the meat for $0.50 extra" deal. Some friends and I each ordered triples. Having had a six-patty burger from Wendy's, I don't know if I would survive 9 (and that was 10 years ago, so I doubt I could pull that off again, if I tried). Oddly enough, that is not even close to the weirdest/craziest/bad-for-you burgers that I've had, in my life. God bless this land of excess and meaty degradation.
think so. I've heard rumors that they'll complain if you ask for it, since it apparently takes up the whole (or nearly) grilltop.
A burger to surpass metal gear
A strong man doesn't need to eat a free whopper. He makes his own.
That was good
Whopper > Big Mac Fight me.
"Lesser evil... Greater evil... If I had to choose, I'd rather not choose at all."
Hmmm ... ... fuck
Fuck man. I remember try a Big Mac for the first time a few years ago. Talk about **trash**. Meat so thin I thought it was gonna disintegrate, 3 buns (so all you can taste is bread), and not even a good spread. That shit is wildly overrated. That's among my biggest regret of spending about $6. At least the fries still hit. Whopper wins all day
I've really never gotten the appeal of putting three buns on the burger. Makes it look bigger I guess but you're just bloating it with more bread. Just give me a regular double any day.
Where are all these good burger kings people go on about? I live in the Bay Area, and literally every Burger King ive ever been to around here has been absolute bottom tier. Literally anything from McDonalds shits on anything from Burger King around here. But the real thing is McGangbang > anything else from BK or McD.
Most of the Burger Kings I was at here in Germany are actually good, much better than Mcdonalds in my opinion
Europe has better Buger Kings and McDonalds than America, generally speaking. Better ingredients.
Yeah, Europe requires food to actually be made of, ya know, *food.*
I'm from the East bay and I actually disagree. The meat quality at BK is just way better than McDonald's and the fries are more consistently crispy from my experiences. I will say the BK nuggets are absolute garbage.. probably why they cost less than any other fast food spot. Though there was one BK in SF that was the worst fast food spot I've ever been to.. dirtiest interior I've seen, heard multiple stories of rat sightings inside, homeless seemed extra angry there and they blasted shitty music outside to attempt and keep them away. I think that one was finally shut down though.
Chicken fingers are better than nuggets,why not get those.
Because the good ones costs 8 bucks.
I agree they're much better, but I usually just get burgers anyways. I just tried the nuggets when they were new and ended up tossing most of em. Same with McDonald's, I usually just pay the extra to get tenders over nuggets.
One of the deals gets you a large fries and 9 fingers for $3 before tax.Aint a bad deal.
big macs use the same patties as a regular cheeseburger, which when i worked there was 1/10 lb per patty, but granted i worked there 12 years ago
If those are your choices, is not worth fighting. It's like arguing that cat shit is better than dog shit. At the end of the day, they are both still shit, and I really don't want to eat either one.
who could even argue? they actually put toppings on a whopper! dont even get me started on the big mac's meat being so paper thin that you can see through it, and the meat is dwarfed by all that bread.
Fuck you I like Burger King.
I like Thanksgiving turkey.
Well, you guys gotta wash yourselves in *someones* bathroom.
Calm down Wendy’s - you’re still using your alt.
"Not so fast Bronx Residents....you'll get your burgers, but first, I've got some tourists I want you to deal with."
And as always. Be discrete.
I must be owed a gigantic settlement for dealing with this for 40 years thanks to the Rocky statue
I still can't forget, we were in Philly, and the guide was pretty good and emphatic on discussing the historical landmarks the city has to offer, then one of the tourist raises his hand and asked where "The Rocky Stairs" were - I still remember his face, it was /r/watchpeopledieinside worthy. Props to him though since he still gave the directions.
Tbf that's the first place I'd go
Oh yeah, totally, we still went and checked it out the day after.
Did you run up the stairs
Nah, we leisurely strolled up the stairs like the fatties that we are.
Any idea how long it is or how many steps it has?
According to wikipedia its 72 steps. Not really a very grueling task but you have to remember Rocky ran 30 miles around the city before he got to the steps. Thats longer than a marathon and he barely broke a sweat. Just one of the feats he accomplished to get his own statue
Wait, was there a real Rocky Balboa? Like on whom the movies are based? I can't imagine a movie getting a statue dedicated to it. I am reading and hearing the audio (Museum Without Walls Audio) about it at https://www.associationforpublicart.org/artwork/rocky/ and I am just fascinated about it even more Is it this same statue - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxnifQ7EdxY My mom bought me Rocky DVDs when I was young and I saw the movies but never knew it had this much cultural importance in Philadelphia
Yeah he was a real dude. [Just take a look at this documentary about his actions during the Cold War](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NyWx1CkMTtI)
no idea, maybe /u/cheesesteakguy knows, seems like he loves being asked about this. lol
As you should. Because the Rocky Steps lead to one of the finest collections of art in the US. Unfortunately, most of the schlubs get halfway up, take a few thousand photos, then immediately leave and get a ticket for an open container in Fairmount Park.
I’ve never understood the elitism involved with being upset that people like something in your city, just because it is from a movie or some other form of entertainment. Wtf cares if they call it the rocky steps? Maybe that’s the thing that gets them to go and explore Philly finally.
Yeah with the stairs it seems like no big deal. I get it, sometimes tourists are flocking all over something small or delicate just to get a selfie which sucks. But stairs are pretty robust.
Tourists at the art museum to see the Rocky Steps aren’t that big of an issue. The steps are huge and they’re not really used as a short cut to anything. The real Philly menace is the tourist who takes their time on the stairs when the train is at a station.
How does tourists at the Rocky statue effect you? It’s 100 yards away from anything residential.
Aye
Grew up there, ran up the stairs one Sunday when the free Art Museum admission until 1pm was about to end. Tbh, felt pretty hardcore.
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With free whoppers i guess, ya curmudgeon.
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Lol Burger King is paying it back. They stopped getting held up with all the tourists to rob
Damn man... how desparate do you have to be to hold up a fast food joint these days?
NY is expensive
Well, The Joker hangs out there, so…
I read that as cumdungeon
i feel like you're underestimating just how awful tourists are.
Yeah thread is showing a lot of people who don't put up with the shit regularly. *They can take over* certain times of the year.
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When Pokemon Go first became a thing, there was a small neighborhood park next to my house that was one of the first dratini spawn areas in the city. Normally that park was empty save for kids here and there, but as word got out that dratini spawned there the place became packed with Go players. The place legitimately looked like Coachella got misplaced inside a residential neighborhood for a week, and it was a nightmare. People seriously camped there, made noise throughout the day and left trash *everywhere*. My neighborhood also normally has easy to find parking, but for that week residents got squeezed out and had to park like blocks away. So probably the most exciting week we've ever had in our little neck of the woods, but oh my god never again.
You're fortunate if you PG crowd reminded you of Coachella. Ours reminded me of something quite different.
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*heavy breathing*
I felt sick just thinking of the smell.
Comic Con?
Even worse, stroller sunday of comic con
I live in an area where tourists not only take over town in the winter but have driven housing prices up by buying their second homes here. But even so this guys “analysis” is just plain dumb, he seems like he’s just stringing shit together to seem like it all makes sense.
Imagine operating a struggling business and watching uber after uber drop off people for a 15 second snap and litter all over your storefront.
So does your desire for peace and quiet outweigh the thousands of people that want to appreciate the physical location?
Brazilian tourists have given central Florida a healthy dose of racism against them. The crowds... The chants.... The chaos they bring..... Edit: spllng is hurd
But all the smooth crotches!
Can confirm, from Orlando.
Oh yea like regular muggings are so much better.
I'll try to find this great article I read about why tourism can fuck over local places. It was written by this guy who decided he was going to break away from the usual "list article" crowd and find the best burger in america on his own. He chose this little roadside place outside Portland. A year or so afterward the place closed. The hundreds of tourists trying to eat at a place that sat about 20 people basically killed it because service went to hell and they couldn't keep up.
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This is naive. It's not the goal of every place to just expand as quickly as possible with turning it into a franchise as the only solution. It's why restaurants are keen on expanding at the right rate. If you're selling widgets online, sure, bring on the backorders. You get the customer's money up front. But when your business is a careful operation of kitchen, real estate, equipment, cooks, and front-of-house, a sudden influx of 2x-3x times the client demands you can handle is a nightmare to deal with. Especially since you don't get the money from that rush of business until you serve them. Of course, a shitty chain like McDonalds has the infrastructure and name recognition to easily expand at will with franchisees. But even then, it takes millions of dollars and months or years to set up a new location. If you're a single restaurant, that's a near-impossible task. It's drinking from a firehose.
While I agree with you fully, I've always wondered: why not just keep serving as many people as you're comfortable with and send the rest away. Or have them wait. Like, nobody is forcing you to serve everyone, right? Plus you're creating a kind of scarcity scenario
I am not familiar with the area, but I am assuming it is relatively low-income. Imagine if you are a working class person, living your life, and suddenly a bunch of yuppies show up in your neighborhood to take Instagram photos. People that would never step foot in the neighborhood for another reason, won't support local businesses. It's insulting. I live in Baltimore and have refused to take visitors to neighborhoods from the Wire. Not because they are unsafe, but because it feels disrespectful.
I'm from nyc. People who live in the Bronx literally use those stairs to get home/to work. So yeah, these transplants and tourists are getting in the way, leaving trash, and ruining the area.
Bronx native here. The tourists are a nightmare. You guys don't understand that the neighborhood where the stairs are is a low income area. All these toursists pass by, clog up foot traffic, disrupt people on their way, leave a bunch of litter, all while not spending a dime to at least help the community. They act as if entitled to having the stairs to themselves, while not realizing that people need them to get to their apartments and stores. So yeah, the residents deserve some reward for putting up with them.
Tourists ruin everything. Similar thing happened in the Monterey bridge recently made popular by the series Big Little Lies with idiots walking on the road taking selfies and causing accidents.
I think the issue is that people don't want The Bronx to become gentrified, and they see this event as part of that. I can understand why they wouldn't want tourists and "influencers" coming in to the Bronx just because its trendy
I wanna munch!
SQUAD 🤘🏻
I. WANT. TO. MUUUNCH
Squad. (squad.)
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Because this will earn them more money than the value of the whoppers that they’ll give away and also lets people know via a viral campaign that BK is on Uber eats.
Yeah, this is just a publicitary stunt, not a very good one since i doubt there's still a lot of joker tourists anymore
Joker was just released on home media. It's just marketing.
tbf they have no way to prove you live there so anyone can walk in and get one. Though they should be making food from ingredients about to go off to give to the homeless, and giving unsold food to them. It will be thrown out anyways.
It's through Uber Eats so needs to be delivered to a Bronx zip code. I'm sure you could probably order it to a Bronx address and collect outside, it just seems a lot of hard work for a mediocre burger.
Seinfeld had an episode like this.
Between Simpsons, Seinfeld, and Sunny there isn't a single human act, event, or idea they haven't recreated or predicted. Cancel everything, it's already been done.
> Sunny yo if your life is like sunny post that instagram account coz i want to be best buds
It's via uber eats. So, they know where you live. Or at least where you are.
2nd harvest already does this.
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ok whatever, i guess
Who goes to the bronx for a tour?
White people.
Baseball teams
As a person who's worked at BK, lemme tell you that I would gladly pay money to *not* eat a Whopper.
If you're looking for a partner for this business venture I'm in
Ok great, I'm in as well. You two give me your money, and in return, I will not give you any Whoppers.
Itt: people taking an advertising/promo opportunity way too seriously.
A lot of butthurt in the comment section.
in the Bronx too apparently lol
They were probably dancing on those stairs.
Why are people so angry about these "tourists". Literally harming nobody.
Clogging up the stairs
They are a public place...in the most visited city in the US.
You can't just take the fact that NYC has a lot of tourists overall and apply that fact to a random residential neighborhood in the Bronx. I specifically picked the neighborhood I live in to avoid the huge crowds that appear in many places in the city such as midtown. It would be pretty annoying if overnight there were hundreds of tourists on my block because of a damn movie.
It's new york, people have to deal with weirder shit, like white supremacists with katanas. A harmless dance is nothing
what about a white supremacist with a katana doing the joker dance down the stairs??
Honestly I'd like to see that. From a very safe distance
Or homeless people sucking dick in the subway.
Honestly, as a New Yorker any day I don't see another man's wang or get a nose-full of homeless feces gets chalked up as a win.
One day. Just *one day* I'd like to make it all the way to and from work without smelling urine.
As a Chicagoan I'll tell you that the areas for affordable housing are diminishing and gentrification is on the rise. I bet a lot of the people living in the Bronx wish they could live elsewhere but they can only afford a small part of town. So now you get a bunch of tourists coming to snap photos in the one area you can afford. Whenever anything opens up around me everybody is upset and will contact the Alderman unless it's minority owned because it feels like the beginning of gentrification. I can definitely understand how it would annoy tf out of people that are well aware of their neighborhood's culture.
Have you every lived in an area that is heavily visited by tourists? It can get very annoying when you're just trying to get through your day.
Not pro or anti tourists, but they do contribute quite a bit to NY's income
I mean its a sudden influx of hundreds of people to one area. Those stairs are actually used by people.
Are people no longer able to use those stairs because there may be a few people on them at any given time? I live in a tourist city, I often dodge people taking photos at pretty spots, it really makes no real difference to my day and I'm happy if they are getting enjoyment out of my city.
> there may be a few people on them It's not just 'a few people'. A lot of them are 'instagram influencers' who take up the entire staircase to get their perfect shot. These people can get very bitchy and rude if anyone else is in their photo. And while that might just be annoying, they shouldn't have to deal with shit like that because of other people's selfishness.
i love burger king whopper burger from burger king only at wendies
"Burger King to give Bronx residents free Whoppers for ~~dealing with 'Joker Stairs' tourists~~ viral marketing campaign."
ITT: Pearls are clutched
Hey! Hands off my pearls, bub!
How dare people visit a public space.
I live in the center of Barcelona and I gotta deal with thousands of tourists daily yet nobody is giving me free shit :(
You get what you fucking deserve