A Burger Chain’s 15 Cent Deal Causes Crowds To Go Berserk
You normally don’t see this zoo of a crowd until Black Friday comes around. Guess a 15 cent deal on burgers will do the trick, too.
Facebook user Pauline Cabal Estrada posted the above video that shows hundreds of customers jostling for line position at a Zark’s Burgers location. The popular Filipino burger chain offered a 15 cent (or 8 pesos) deal on its burgers to celebrate its eighth anniversary. Zark’s currently sells their burgers for 145 pesos, the equivalent of $2.84 US. Thus, the deal marks a whopping 95 percent discount. However, only the first 80 people at each location would be able to score on this massive price slash.
Thus, throngs of people that wanted the cheap burgers tried everything to get one of those 80 spots. People were shoving each other and even jumping over railings to get in prime position.
Estrada told Mashable that while she went to Zark’s for the discount, she changed her mind once she saw the running and screaming people in line.
“I’m worried about the children that [were] also there. I don’t think their parents bother to think about what…[could] happen.”
Zark’s 15 cent deal for the burgers above created some potentially dangerous and insane crowds. Thank goodness it didn’t escalate to violent levels, as these rush sales can do on occasions like Black Friday. There’s a good chance that some people would not have made it out of there in one piece.
