A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is.
A U.S. judge has rejected Burger King's bid to dismiss a lawsuit claiming that it cheated hungry customers by making its Whopper sandwich appear larger than it actually is.
U.S. District Judge Roy Altman in Miami said Burger King must defend against a claim that its depiction of Whoppers on in-store menu boards mislead reasonable customers, amounting to a breach of contract.
Customers in the proposed class action accused Burger King of portraying burgers with ingredients that "overflow over the bun," making it appear the burgers are 35% larger and contain more than double the meat than the chain serves.
I'm not overly surprised. I read the article and know the TV ad claims were dismissed, but the currently running TV ad campaign for BK makes their burgers look ridiculously huge - like larger than the entire box a Big Mac comes in.
Check out the whopper shown at the very start of this ad (screenshot) to see what I mean. When did you last have a burger that was half the width of your torso?
To be fair, 75 percent of the height between the bun is not burger, but lettuce, tomato, etc. But I've never seen veggies stand that tall or not be compressed by the person making it.
Umm the actual court order the article refers to is super generous to the plaintiffs lol. Whoever's representing them made such basic mistakes that I'm not even sure how they passed the bar exam:
The Plaintiffs' first cause of action lists--in a single paragraph that spans four pages--fifty
different state (and DC) consumer-protection statutes.
(This is a no-no in every federal court in every state.)
In either event, the Plaintiffs concede that they've failed to meet the requirements of Mississippi and Ohio law--even as they ask us not to dismiss those claims.
(Wtf? lol)
we agree with Burger King that a reasonable person wouldn't have interpreted Burger King's TV and online ads as binding offers.
(This is well-settled law and taught to most first-year law students.)
Just get the tiny double cheeseburgers off the saver menu. Two if you want to feel like you've eaten something. It's a fraction of the price and they're not much smaller than a Whopper Double Angus XXL Megaburger or whatever they've named stuff this week.
The only other thing worth your time is the Bacon Double Cheese XL, and only if it's on special offer on the app.
Yes. BK is probably sizing the bun-to-patty ratio to make them look and seem larger. They also probably make sure to paint their lettuce green so it looks fresher. Or would, if that weren't already banned by the FDA.
I remember seeing a show when I was a kid made for kids about deceptive advertising (it was on HBO back when HBO was decent) and they had a segment on all the ways they dress food for food ads. It was fascinating. I remember milk was made from Elmer's Glue, cereal flakes were chosen from hundreds of boxes to find the perfect ones, and ice cream, which would melt under the hot lights if it were real, was made from vegetable shortening.
oh yeah. Commercial food photography is.... a sneaky art. they find textures that are similar and paint them to be what they need. hard gloss like beef juices are lacquer, fruits are made to look fresher with hairspray... and this assumes they're using fruit at all.
Really wish they sell Whataburger everywhere in the States(especially after that Chicago venture capital bought the chain) , never had the problem of the burger being too small there.
Burger King (Hungry Jack's too) should also be ashamed for the sorry excuse of the imitation mayonnaise they use in the Whopper.
Whoppers today are trash compared to the Whoppers of even back in 2007.
They did something, changed something, went to a different meat combination for their burgers I don't know what it is but 15 years ago Whoppers were amazingly better than they are today.
Maybe your tastes have just changed and developed as you got older like everyone does. Whoppers are the same shitty paper thin patties and browning, soggy iceberg lettuce drenched in half a gallon of ketchup and mayo they've always been.