Eats

I’ve always been interested in Burger King’s advertising campaigns. The King is one of the most revered  and notable fast food mascots in the game, and with this new guerrilla-style advertising, Burger King has littered the streets of Chicago with upwards of 5,000 abandoned wallets. Each wallet contains actual cash, ranging from $1 bills, to $100 bills, a gift card to Burger King, a driver’s license featuring The King and a map to all the local area Burger King restaurants. There have been reports that this campaign is not limited to the Chicago area, we will keep our ear to the streets if we discover this popping up elsewhere (make sure to e-mail us if you find one!). (Thx SoGood)

Papa John’s pizza is doing some serious giving back to their fans this Thanksgiving season. For anyone who becomes a “fan” of the official Papa John’s Facebook page will get an online redemption code for a free medium pizza with any online order. If you were one of the 10,000 hungry people who were fans before this deal broke, don’t sweat it, you guys get the same hookup. From Papa J’s V.P. of Marketing Jim Ensign:

“For our customers who already love Papa John’s, a free pizza is simply our way of saying thank you for their loyalty. And for those people who aren’t as familiar with Papa John’s and our belief that better ingredients make a better pizza, we invite them to see – and taste – the difference with this special offer.”

Wendy’s is making an appeal to some classy palates with their new Gourmet Mushroom Swissburger. You can get your gourmet on with 1/4 lb. of fresh, never frozen beef, real Swiss Cheese, hickory smoked bacon, peppercorn sauce, lettuce and ripe red tomato. Only available for a limited time so hop over to Wendy’s if you hankerin’ for some ritzy burger love.

It’s about time to starting bangin’ out those holiday values and Del Taco is doing their part by introducing the new Classic Combo Deal. Get a Del Combo Burrito, a Classic Taco and a small drink for the laughable price of $2.99. Get up and get fed for only 3 bucks at your neighborhood Del Taco.

In celebration of the McNugget’s 25th birthday, McDonald’s presents the launch of the ultimate Chicken McNugget online fan community: Nuggnuts.com Boasting a hall of fame page and various pieces of available merchandise, you can truly get deep into the mindset of a Chicken McNugget. Foodbeast much?

Good all day today and tomorrow, you can get a Extra Large Pizza with one topping for only $11.99 at Papa John’s. Ten big slices and 30% bigger than a large. Hop on it!

In one of the most exciting news stories I’ve heard this month (other than the reminder that Thanksgiving is also this month), the powerhouses of the digital television age, TiVo, and the pizza connoisseurs of Domino’s Pizza are teaming up to provide pizza ordering straight from your television set. Now, whenever you see a Domino’s ad on television, you can click through, place an order, have it delivered, and even get tracking information to find out the precise moment your pizza will show up at your doorstep. Now you can order that meat-lovers pizza without ever missing a moment of Everybody Loves Raymond. Amazing? Amazing. (Thx CNET)

Just one of the latest deals from Dunkin’ Donuts to help keep America running: get a bagel with cream cheese for only 99¢ when you buy a medium hot coffee. The hot coffee is always freshly ground, freshly brewed and made to order and a bagel with cream cheese, well it’s hard to go wrong with that. Like always, more news about Dunkin’ happenings as we get it.

Olive Garden’s Chicken & Gnocchi Soup is the newest addition to their $7.95 Unlimited Soup, Salad and Breadstick deal. Creamy soup with roasted chicken, traditional Italian dumplings and spinach. Also available by itself for $5.25.

The newest product from Taco Bell helps to solve an epidemic that affects all the nacho lovers out there. Horrible chip to topping ratio and balance. A nacho chip without toppings is usually a bad thing, so Taco Bell proclaims that their new Fully Loaded Nachos has toppings on every bite. It’s jam packed with hearty beans, fiesta salsa, guacamole, sour cream, crispy tortilla strips, nacho cheese, 3 cheese blend and double the ground beef as the Nachos Bellgrande. And it’s all served inside a giant nacho bowl, giving you just another reason to get your fully loaded nacho on.