BK Whopper and drink now $9? WTF?

[TwixVoy]

Can anyone confirm that a BK Whopper and drink are now running $9+ in some markets?

If this is the case perhaps we are starting to see some early signs of inflation.

[JI7]

1. BK whopper makes me want to throw up

and it's not just because it's fast food. as i don't feel like that from other fast food burgers even though they might not be all that great.

but the BK whopper is really gross to me.

[Double T]

2. Also indicates the US Dollar doesn't/won't buy much anymore.

We're ALL going to have to learn to live on french fries and ice water. YES, it is true in some markets like NY.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. Check it out -

the fourth review down - http://www.yelp.com/biz/burger-king-emeryville

I'm happy with my $1.39 Jr. Bacon Cheeseburger at Wendy's. Nine bucks for a combo meal is nuts.

Inflation, absolutely, but we've been seeing these all along. It's nothing new, rising food prices, but it's starting to show up where more people might notice it, at fast food places.

Disaster, pure disaster ahead. I really think we've passed the point of no return.................................

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. The sales tax sends this shit way up too. It seems like a list of 2.49

always ends up being 3.25 or some such shit. The drinks are %90 ice.

[Selatius]

5. Where are these Burger King joints? Orange County? Manhattan Island?

Is there a BK joint in Greenwich Village I'm not hearing about?

[RoyGBiv]

6. What is the origin of this?

Fast food crap has been near that in *some* markets for awhile, e.g. New York. I paid something like $12 for a fast food breakfast of two slices (well, they looked like they wanted to be slices) of bacon, toast, an egg, and a large coffee in DC last year. The coffee was $3 of it.

Fast food isn't as expensive as that in the Houston area.

[TwixVoy]

8. On some of the financial forums I visit

some people have started to post observations that these prices are going this high in various markets now. I can't say I've noticed it though as I don't eat fast food.... ever.

[NBachers]

23. Closest I come is the Taco Truck

When you walk away from the Taco Truck, you know you've been dealt with properly. At least here in San Francisco, anyway.

Sometimes I "arrange" my route so I'll pass the Taco Truck, and then suddenly make an impromptu decision to stop when I see it. But I've already set the entire scenario in motion when I route myself that way.

[charlie]

19. Even if it was nationwide

I wouldn't regard anything BK does as a bellwether of things to come. They're a company that's made a turn for the weird in recent years, like some sort of dada collective that uses meat and fries as their medium.

[RoyGBiv]

24. Yeah ...

It hadn't occurred to me how far into the truly weird they'd fallen until I was browsing a sociological journal one day and found an article on Burger King's then current advertising campaign.

And then there's that King thing they have. :scared:

I never liked Burger King, for some rather odd reasons. We had a local burger joint where I grew up called Hamburger King that had come into being a few years before the first Burger King opened. It was awesome. You picked up a phone at your table to place your order, and there was a juke box selector at the table as well. It just so happened that Burger King was the first fast food joint that showed up in that town. I felt truly ripped off. I mean, as a kid, the McDonald's advertising had sucked me in, and I wanted a damn Happy Meal, not some paper crown. The food was awful, nothing close to Hamburger King, so I grew an early hatred.

Anyway, BK had been there a month or so and promptly sued Hamburger King for infringement of its trademark. At length, Burger King lost, but the cost of the law suit all but destroyed the local joint. It actually continued to exist, but it was so broken down that it would take it a long time to recover, and by then, the place was full of fast food that took most of its business. It was nothing but a small diner that opened at 5am and closed at 1pm when I left town.

[charlie]

25. That Hamburger King is a sad story

I would've been steamed at anybody who'd kill a burger joint with phones(!!) too. I used to sulk when my Dad would forego the intercom and carhop and take us inside to eat. That was just WRONG.

I used to like BK. Decades ago, when they were the national franchise that flame broiled their burgers. I was left with egg on my face when they expanded into Japan and I told friends they were a world apart from MacDonald's gray patties. Of course, no one was impressed with their smoke scented stripe-painted microwaved meat concoctions.

Anymore, I don't know what their game is, unless it's to be creepy and alarmingly manic. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with affordable edible food.

Kill 10 of your Facebook friends for a Whopper:

http://www.geekologie.com/2009/01/the_burger_king_whopper_sacrif.php
http://www.whoppersacrifice.com

The $200 Whopper:

http://wcbstv.com/consumer/burger.king.200.2.751668.html

The high toned Burger Bars they're thinking of rolling out while family budgets keep Mom and Dad awake at night:

http://www.slashfood.com/2009/03/13/pimp-my-burger-burger-kings-new-whopper-bar

[rucky]

7. maybe at the airport

:shrug:

[JI7]

9. why is airport food so expensive ?

i remember the costs for mcdonalds at LAX and how high it was.

[masuki bance]

12. Captive audience. nt

[joshcryer]

16. Yep. I always thought it was crazy how a cab fare to the airport was 10 times cheaper than away.

ie, once I went to the airport in New Orleans for $15 (only lived about 10 miles away and this was almost 10 years ago). The cab fare to get back home? $65.

I was blown away.

[TommyPaine]

10. Yeah, almost makes you want to cook for yourself at home.

Buy your own ingredients, cook for yourself, save money, live healthier and all that. Could be a new trend.

[rucky]

14. that's just crazy talk!

[Cant trust em]

11. London maybe? nt

[mwooldri]

17. Close... if exchange rate was higher, definitely. nt

[flvegan]

13. Who eats that shit "food" anyway?

I also don't believe any story like this that doesn't include fries.

[snooper2]

15. yep, your right

$9 Whoppers are the new economic threshold :rofl:

In Texas they are 2 for 2 dollars...we have Deflation here :rofl:

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18. i bought a whopper today for almost $4. i did not buy a drink. are drinks that expensive?

where do you live?

[Posteritatis]

20. Whopper combos in my neck of the woods run about $7Cdn

They have for awhile, too.

[Q3JR4]

21. Hmmm... Good thing I don't eat hamburger...

Q3JR4.

[Elwood P Dowd]

22. About what John Holmes made per shot in 1975.

No big inflation problem here.

[Recursion]

26. Are you talking about a regular whopper and regular drink?

I'm in Boston. Most things are pretty much as expensive here as they are in NYC and SFO, and a whopper and drink here will set you back about $5.

Now, if you want the super-duper triple Angry Molto Voltron Mushroom and Kidneys Whopper or whatever the burger du jour is, and the Mega-Big-Ultra-Gulp drink (smaller only than the Hypergulp, shown here in relation to our Sun...) then, yeah, I could see that approaching $9 with taxes.

[HopeHoops]

27. BURGER KING IS LOW GRADE DOG MEAT!

It always has been. Flatulence in a bun, nothing less.
:puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke: :puke:

[marmar]

28. Maybe at an airport Burger King?

n/t

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

29. A whooper meal here (with fries/soda) is with tax a little more than $6.00. A whopper jr

with fries and soda off the value menu is a whole $3.00 plus tax.

[SmileyRose]

30. Whopper combo (fries + med Drink) - $6.13 with tax.