Burger King ‘Ghost of McDonald’s’ Halloween costume restaurant (2016)
- Year
- 2016 Source verified
- Restaurant
- Burger King
About this item
For Halloween 2016, one Burger King in Queens draped itself in giant white sheets to look like 'the ghost of McDonald's', with a sign joking that it still flame-grills its burgers.
Details
- Holiday
- Halloween
- Archive type
- Restaurant Promotion
- Country
- US
Promotion details
- Restaurant
- Burger King
- When
- Late October 2016 (one restaurant in Queens, New York)
- Country
- United States
- Promotion type
- Other
- Documented here
- No pieces documented yet
- Data quality
- Verified: Confirmed by an official source or contemporary press.
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Research notes
A one-location marketing stunt, not a product or collectible. Search summaries credit the agency David (Miami); not confirmed from a fetched page.
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Sources & verification
- Burger King Dresses Up As McDonald's For Halloween Press Release / Official Announcement Supports: Oct 31, 2016 coverage of the stunt (seen via search excerpt) View source
- For Halloween, this Burger King dressed up as the ghost of McDonald's Press Release / Official Announcement Supports: Location, sheet costume and sign (seen via search excerpt) View source
- Burger King's scary Halloween promotion: free Whoppers Press Release / Official Announcement Supports: Retrospective mention of the 2016 Queens costume View source