Burger Shot (formerly The Burger Shot) is a chain of hamburger fast-food restaurants in the 3D Universe of the Grand Theft Auto series.
The chain is also featured in Rockstar North's Manhunt series.
Description[]
Burger Shot first appeared in the form of "The Burger Shot," a small restaurant in GTA Vice City (among many other less known outlets in the Game) where the player can replenish their health if it is below 100 points. The restaurant has risen in prominence in GTA San Andreas, where it is now a large chain based in multiple locations. In addition to replenishing health, Burger Shot in GTA San Andreas allows the player to eat from a range of set meals in order to eliminate their hunger, or accumulate fat by eating fatty food. Burger Shot is absent as a restaurant chain in GTA Liberty City Stories and GTA Vice City Stories (with the location of its western food court and neighboring The Cheesy Crust Pizza Co. being occupied by Flap Lickin' Chickin, while the eastern food court locations were undeveloped spaces). However, it is mentioned in radio commercials in GTA Liberty City Stories, as well as GTA Vice City Stories, which mention that the restaurant sold V-Rock window stickers as part of the station's Vulture Prize Patrol promotion.
Influence[]
It is a parody of American fast food chain Burger King. The name and color scheme resembles Burger King, but the style of logo resembles Hardee's. Its notoriously unhealthy and sub-par food, aggressive marketing tactics (especially towards children in particular), and boastful identity (even prizing its status as America's favorite chain restaurant) suggests that it also parodies McDonald's (though McDonald's is parodied in the HD Universe as Wigwam Burger).
"Burger Shot" is a slang term for a photo of the female genitalia.
Menu[]
GTA Vice City — GTA San Andreas[]
Originally, The Burger Shot in GTA Vice City lacks any readable menus, although it still does display images of a variety of burgers, sandwiches, and side dishes. The clerk will sometimes mention the eponymous Burger Shot meal in dialogue when he serves food to the player.
Burger Shot in GTA San Andreas, however, offers the player four meals, each with different quantities of fats, with one meal, the Salad Meal, lacking any fats. The names "beef tower" and "meat stack" are both obvious sexual euphemisms for penis. In Las Venturas outlets, the pricing of the Beef Tower, Meat Stack, and Salad Meal are 20% higher than in the rest of the state, as noted below:
Meal | Cost | Fat % + |
---|---|---|
Moo Kids Meal | $ 2 | 1% |
Beef Tower | $ 5 | 2% |
Meat Stack | $ 10 | 3% |
Salad Meal | $ 10 | 0% |
Locations[]
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
In GTA Vice City, The Burger Shot outlets in Vice City are located in the North Point Mall in Vice Point alongside another three outlets (the Beef Bandit, Cheesy Crust Pizza and Shaft Hot Dogs) on both the east and west sides of the mall.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
In GTA San Andreas, Burger Shot is located in each of San Andreas' three major cities, Los Santos, San Fierro and Las Venturas, and as a result is not found in rural San Andreas.
There are ten Burger Shot outlets in total; two in Los Santos, three in San Fierro, and five in Las Venturas. The Old Venturas Strip has two Burger Shot outlets that are only a short walk from each other.
The same female server appears in all the locations. In contrast to her counterparts at Well Stacked Pizza Co., and Cluckin' Bell, her attitude towards the customer is overly ingratiating.
Los Santos[]
Las Venturas[]
San Fierro[]
Prominent Appearances in Gameplay[]
GTA San Andreas[]
Gallery[]
3D Universe[]
Trivia[]
General[]
- Burger Shot paper bags and cups are commonly found in the shared 3D Universe title Manhunt 2, using the logo introduced in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City[]
- In The Definitive Edition, garbage bins with the Burger Shot logo are added to the food courts in North Point Mall. However, they anachronistically use the 1992 logo depicted in GTA San Andreas rather than the 1986 logo.
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas[]
- The non-interactive menu inscribed that "Everything is 69¢". This is yet another example of the 69 running gag in the series.
- Upon closer inspection, however, all of the menus are listed for 29¢.
- 'Freedom fries' are listed on the menu; however, the real-life freedom fries controversy occurred in 2003, whereas GTA San Andreas takes place in 1992.
- The texture of the burger featured in the rotating signage and logo is a digitally altered image of Burger King's Whopper,[1] combined with patties and cheese sourced from the McDonald's Quarter Pounder with Cheese.[2]
- The downtown San Fierro Burger Shot is frequently impacted by the Random Plane Crash Glitch.
- During the mission Drive-Thru, the box containing Ryder's food has the Burger Shot logo on it, despite the fact that they were at a Cluckin' Bell.
- A unique gray Bullet can be found parked at the Calton Heights location with a license plate that says "CHUNKY".
- If the player spooks anyone in the restaurant, everyone will either put their hands up or cower in fear. This behavior also extends to cops when they appear in the restaurant during three star or higher wanted level. They will not attack the player, instead performing the aforementioned animations like everyone else, with them still carrying their Pistol in their hand. This also applies to The Well Stacked Pizza Co..