Burger King launches a burger for six to share

 

LONDON - Burger King is rolling out what it claims to be the first burger made for sharing across its three biggest European territories, in an attempt to take on the pizza market.

Burger King launches a burger for six to share
 

The 6 Pack, which costs £4.49 on its own or £5.69 as part of a meal, comprises one big Aberdeen Angus patty inside six rolls, stuck together to allow consumers to tear off portions. In one pair of rolls the burger is topped with ketchup, the second has a cheese topping, and the third bacon and cheese.

The introduction of the 6 Pack, which will be available from next week, will be backed by TV ads breaking next month. It will be launched simultaneously in the UK, Spain and Germany as part of Burger King's five-year plan to operate on a more pan-European basis.

In March, David Kisilevsky, formerly in charge of UK marketing, was promoted to the role of vice-president marketing EMEA to oversee this strategy.

The 6 Pack launch comes as Burger King rolls out a number of menu innovations and products intended to shift the brand into the casual-dining arena. Last month it was revealed that it plans to introduce the UK's most expensive burger to push a more premium positioning (Marketing, 23 April).

The chain will also launch burgers featuring exotic ingredients such as tiger prawns and guacamole to emulate chains such as TGI Friday's.

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AwallafaShagba

AwallafaShagba - 20 May 2008

ew.

 
harry fowler

harry fowler - 20 May 2008

share it you say......unlikely with the BK regulars. Highly unlikely.

 
Eddie Bongo

Eddie Bongo - 20 May 2008

i don't get it...why would you buy a burger to share...and are you then supposed to share your drink and your fries. Unlike a pizza, burgers are pretty much individual portions anyway. This has a UK shelf life in the same league as TAB Clear me thinks.

 

Barry Whyte - 20 May 2008

I kind of want all six for myself. Is that wrong?

Eddie Bongo

Eddie Bongo - 20 May 2008

i would too Barry...you just don't share a burger.

 

- 20 May 2008

We had the hungry teenage son of a friend stay with us at easter. Taking him to McDonalds he ordered six cheese burgers and a coke - I knowat leat one customer who will love this!

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Great example of further innovation. And Andrew, I guess that you'd buy individual drinks to share as you would if you were buying pizza

 
Eddie Bongo

Eddie Bongo - 20 May 2008

yes but no but...

 
Dave Starling

Dave Starling - 20 May 2008

Worst. Idea. Ever.

 

Neil Ramsden - 20 May 2008

4 bite challenge anyone?

Matt Kelly - 20 May 2008

Following the Pizza Hut ploy, Burger King in the coming weeks will launch an "all you can eat" campaign.

Is this where the students win their money back!

www.mattkelly.typepad.com

ps. tiger prawns and guacamole in a burger. How big is this thing gonna be?

daniel cheetham - 20 May 2008

£85 High Street burger??? anyone want my gerkhin? - that will be a fiver

David Llewelyn-Jones - 20 May 2008

why would i deign to go there... with five others, no less! silly.

Ed Kemp

Ed Kemp - 20 May 2008

I think 'worst idea ever' is pushing it a bit, Dave. I can think of lots more daft things than that

 

Michael Laws - 20 May 2008

I don't really have a huge problem with this either way, but i think it is silly to believe that this product is ever going to be shared between 6 people. 4 possibly, 2 more likely and sometimes just one...

look at the price, it's only fractionally more than one of the larger whoppers, if memory serves

Justin Driskill - 20 May 2008

6 burgers for the price of one. Who could say no?

- 20 May 2008

On thing not mentioned is the size of each portion... are they normal burger size [which would make this 6 pack a great deal!] or are they golf ball size???

one other thing to say.... OBESITY!!!

BK obviously don't think there is a problem in fueling the problem!surely - this type of campaign will have big debate and opposition?!!

ryan mcl - 20 May 2008

i think every product has its customer, no matter how niche

thinking outside the box, it could be one of those things you grab with a few mates before or after a gig or footy match maybe??

think it will be more popular than you think - adds variety and most people will probably just have one to themselves

at £4.50 it can be that big!

- 20 May 2008

SMALL IN SIIZE - BIG ON VARIETY, says it all I suppose!

I agree that it will be more a gimick at first.... but will become a popular way to buy

J W

J W - 20 May 2008

Why???

 
Gordon Macmillan

Gordon Macmillan - 20 May 2008

A product extension too far surely

 

RACHEL DUTTON - 20 May 2008

lol an obese man walks into burger king... wants to buy 6 burgers... Now he doesn't have to!

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Don't be such luddites. I'm sure they said the same about McFlurrys

 

Gemma Charles - 20 May 2008

I think it's probably best shared among two if you are hungry or three for a snack. Variety is the spice of life, burger eaters will love it, I reckon.

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Yeaah but I can see this leading to loads of arguments as I'd want to eat both portions that are topped with bacon and cheese and neither that come just with ketchup.

 

Gemma Charles - 20 May 2008

Yeah, well we're not all greedy boys like you JL.

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Perhaps some tacit trading sysem could be introduced where it could be acknowledged that bacon & cheese are inherently more valuable than just ketchup and an equation factor of who purcases the 6 Pack and how often be worked out based on their choices?

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Incidentally, I suggest the vaue of one bacon & cheese portion versus one ketchup-only portion as 1:0.93

 
Under Employed

Under Employed - 20 May 2008

if you sellotaped the buns to your stomach it would give people the impression you had a good six-pack.

From a distance.

If they squinted.

In fact, for all the good it would do you, you may as well tape the whole thing.

 
Under Employed

Under Employed - 20 May 2008

Jesus, this site is dreadful... clearly, I didn't mean to stress my kitten-weak "joke" by posting three times.

 

Gemma Charles - 20 May 2008

I didn't think it was funny the first time around so don't worry.

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

Award-winning I tell ye

 
Ed Kemp

Ed Kemp - 20 May 2008

i thought it got funnier with each telling. it was a bit like watching reruns of only fools and horses...

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 20 May 2008

I wonder, though, what would happen if you sellotaped the buns to your stomach?

 
Under Employed

Under Employed - 21 May 2008

Have I strayed on to some Marketing hacks-only thread here? Haven't you lot got press releases to rewrite?

 

Mark Smith - 21 May 2008

Has the Marketing news room and the PR dept. at BK merged into one as part of a cost saving efficiency scheme? I can't tell the difference anymore.

B Agotcha - 21 May 2008

Marketing Week does a better job

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 21 May 2008

There are quite a few comments from Marketing hacks on here I agree, but may be some of the others are from anonymous bitter rivals with nothing better to do. Perhaps they don't get the press releases. Great at jokes though....

 
Under Employed

Under Employed - 21 May 2008

But it's no fun if you can't interract with the news desk & congratulate them on their scoops.

 

Gemma Charles - 21 May 2008

Is interacting with the new team actually fun? I do it everyday and find it quite a drag.

Gemma Charles - 21 May 2008

Should be 'news'.

Under Employed

Under Employed - 21 May 2008

What? A Marketing Week mole on here with an agenda? Name and shame...

 

B Agotcha - 21 May 2008

At least Jeremy's jokes have an element of truth in them unlike his stories

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 21 May 2008

It's not my fault - it's the press releases that I fastidiously copy out; some our right but sometimes I'm led a very merry dance...

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 21 May 2008

and I can't spell or no how to use grammar

 

pixie x - 21 May 2008

I am challenging you B Agotcha...what per say "do marketing week do better"??? Pretty sure you can't mean reporting the news..??

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 22 May 2008

Looks like he failed the challenge

 

abraham abrochar - 22 May 2008

I have seen the wonderfull burger. But how can I get it?

B Agotcha - 23 May 2008

Marketing Week's stories are not only better but they also tend to be true

Under Employed

Under Employed - 23 May 2008

Ouch ... Game, set and match to B Agotcha with that devastating media audit.

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 23 May 2008

B Agotcha? Is that you Dominic?

 
Ed Kemp

Ed Kemp - 23 May 2008

I'm dying to know! how terribly exciting and mysterious.

 

B Agotcha - 27 May 2008

Who is Dominic?

Under Employed

Under Employed - 27 May 2008

Meanwhile, the Marketing / BK love-in continues, this time played out in Lucy Barrett's lucrative Media Guardian advertising column:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2008/may/26/digitaltvradio.advertising

 

B Agotcha - 27 May 2008

Unbelieveable. BK are really getting their money's worth out of Marketing; where is the journalistic integrity and endeavour?

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 27 May 2008

we're not Quakers you know

 
Lucy Barrett

Lucy Barrett - 27 May 2008

I think it's very flattering that brandrepublic's rivals spend their whole life reading and commenting on our stories.

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 27 May 2008

I can only imagine what they'd say and write if they saw the conservatory and new car that BK kindly bought for me. And they great thing was they let me have it my way.

 
Lucy Barrett

Lucy Barrett - 27 May 2008

It's just a guess Jeremy, because I REALLY wouldn't know, but when you said you wanted that conservatory and that motor, I bet they said: "You got it!"

What car by the way?

 

B Agotcha - 27 May 2008

I think it's very flattering that the editor and news editor of Marketing spend all day on PRESS DAY reading blog comments and responding with their own comments. What 'scoops' do we have to look forward to this week?

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 28 May 2008

The news editor? I haven't seen Gareth comment at all. But yes, I'm furious that we missed a very topical Hear'Say 'scoop'.

And Lucy, I can't tell you what sort of car iot was but lets just say it was a whopper

 

Lucy Aitken - 29 May 2008

This is brilliant. Much better than the boards. Is B Agotcha a MW hack?

Jim Tigersrule - 29 May 2008

It's great isn't it? If it's not Dominic I think it's some muppet from said outfit's website

Jim Tigersrule - 29 May 2008

WAC

Gordon Macmillan

Gordon Macmillan - 29 May 2008

Is that who it is? He's the news editor on Mad or something? Talk about having time on your hands...

 

Jim Tigersrule - 29 May 2008

I thought Mad had shut down and that Bronwyn was the only person there? Perhaps that's why he/she has got so much to do

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 29 May 2008

I'm off for a delicious Burger King - it's the finest food retailer on the high street

 
Arif Durrani

Arif Durrani - 29 May 2008

Hey, just been forwarded this – sorry I'm not your mole chaps. Forgetting that I’ve been in Portugal for two weeks, if I were to login to BR do you really think I’d be fighting the corner for MW? Nice to be top of mind though – cheers.

 
Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 29 May 2008

Hope that you managed to find a Burger King out there - I really can't recommend their delicious menu enough.

That's the holiday sorted then

 

Under Employed - 30 May 2008

Under Employed - 30 May 2008

Oops. weird things going on with BR ... first, when I logged in with my old haymarket email address, I appeared as Lucy Aitken. Now, firing blanks.

This is a brilliant read--love the mad trolling. Good to see you the other night Jeremy

Justin Driskill - 30 May 2008

I just had one of these and it was great. But now I have the meat sweats.

Jeremy Lee

Jeremy Lee - 30 May 2008

Good to see you too James - thoroughly enjoyed it. Looking forward to your wedding next week too. Have a great weekend

 
Omar

Omar - 04 August 2008

Trying to compete with the Pizza market? They must be joking!

 

taige zhang - 03 September 2008

Yes it could be done. Just make it into a burger pie and slice it up like a pizza. But having 6 burgers and sticking them together is dumb cuz what if i only wanted like half? there's not adv to ordering a 6 pack one to share if the portions are all the same.

marcus evans

marcus evans - 12 November 2008

You don't think it's how lorry drivers are disposing of the bodies of murdered prostitutes in a macabre modern day parody of Sweeny Todd do you?

 
Mantis

Mantis - 27 November 2008

Don't think this is intended to compete with the pizza market, rather a new product with a borrowed concept of how we tend to eat/share pizza in general. Must admit, they are the first to introduce this and we can expect to see a hit or miss within a short time. personally I am predicting it to be a big hit in college dorms!!

 

Elliott H - 05 February 2009

Sixpack... 'Oh the irony'

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