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App error let Burger King customers add unlimited Whoppers to meal deal
Burger King customers were able to add unlimited extra Whoppers to a two-for-£12 meal deal at no extra cost because of an app error. The offer ended after customer Paul Martin publicly reported the fault, prompting the chain to investigate and remove it within three hours.
Martin said he had tried to alert Burger King through its website, email and social media without receiving a reply. He later posted that he had bought 18 Whoppers, 18 portions of fries and 18 drinks at a central London branch for £26.54, rather than the stated £188.82 price; his post reached more than 1.6 million people on X.
In short
- An app error made extra Whoppers free with a meal deal.
- Paul Martin bought 18 meals for £26.54.
- Burger King fixed the error within three hours of his public post.
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Originally published by Daily Mail as “Burger King gives away ‘thousands’ of free Whopper meals – but chain only realised after ‘grass’ reported app error”.