"Steve Hansen Smythe" > wrote in message
news:jk_ke.20669$tt5.4611@edtnps90...
> rick wrote:
>> "Steve Hansen Smythe" > wrote in message
>> news:scFke.9267$9A2.4089@edtnps89...
>>
>>>usual suspect wrote:
>>>
>>>>Larry Fruity wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>http://www.cattlenetwork.com/content.asp?contentid=4949
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This is to replace their "veggie whopper," which has been an
>>>>underperforming menu item. The new one will likewise
>>>>underperform. Just consider the math:
>>>>
>>>> BK plans to run the table, though, with a nationwide roll
>>>> out by
>>>> the end of the month. No word on the reaction from BK
>>>> franchisees who operate about 90% of the chain’s
>>>> restaurants.
>>>>
>>>>And:
>>>>
>>>> With the number of serious vegetarians stagnating at less
>>>> than
>>>> 2% according to some estimates, the market potential may
>>>> be just
>>>> too small, though, for a QSR selling to a mass market.
>>>>
>>>>I think it's highly unlikely you'll be able to find their new
>>>>fake burgers outside of urban areas -- where this miserly,
>>>>stagnant 2% of the population who are "serious vegetarians"
>>>>spend their lives -- except at BK-owned units (I suspect they
>>>>operate very few non-urban units themselves). How many of
>>>>that stagnant 2% will venture to BK to eat a burger? They
>>>>didn't show up to buy the old "veggie whopper."
>>>
>>>I agree that it's likely to underperform, but not based on
>>>whatever figure their statistical methods might churn out for
>>>the number of vegetarians in the population (whether it's 2%
>>>or 20% is immaterial), but because v's tend to avoid
>>>restaurants with a strong focus on animal products in the
>>>first place. The restaurant has to try to draw its primary
>>>prey, the carnivore,
>>
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>> What are you smoking, fool? What 'carnivores' would those
>> be? Lions, tigers, crocs...?
>>
> Are you taking offense at a word that simply means
> "meat-eater"? Can you deny that Burger King's customers
> consistently eat meat?
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It has a speciic meaning. Humans are not it. But that said, you
do realize that even this typical american diet that the loons
like to refer to is far more plant based than meat based, don't
you? We even eat more potatoes than beef a year. In fact at 121
pounds of potatoes, it's only about 70 pounds behind all meat
consumption combined.



> All right then. Omnivore it is.
>>
>> because that's where it's making most of
>>
>>>its money. In the very act of attracting meat-eaters it's
>>>bound to turn off the very people who might eat their new
>>>meatless burger.
>>>
>>>So the new burger isn't good news, or bad news. It's no news;
>>>a doomed gesture.
>>
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>> As proven by the fact that there are no nationwide veggie
>> eateries, eh killer?
>>
>>
>>
> Let's just choose a different nation then. India, say. Sure to
> be nationwide veggie eateries there.
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LOL First you'll have to convince me that there ARE food chains
there since over 30% of the population lives on less than a $1 a
day...