- Dec
23
2012
Oh boy: more fast burgers!
National restaurant chain Mooyah Burgers, Fries & Shakes plans on coming to Sioux Falls next year.
Development agents are working in the market to find locations and a local franchisee, according to Michael Mabry, director of franchise.
“We think that the Dakotas are an underserved market,” he said. “With all the commerce flowing in and out of that part of the country, we feel that burgers, fries and shakes will fit the need.”
The Sioux Falls market could support up to three locations, he said [Jodi Schwan, "National Burger Chain Looking at Sioux Falls," that Sioux Falls paper, 2012.12.18].
South Dakota... burgers... underserved? I live in Spearfish, a town of 10,000. I can get a burger in less than five minutes, and that includes bike travel time. UrbanSpoon.com lists 60 burger joints in Sioux Falls, and I'm thinking that's an undercount. If everybody in Sioux Falls said, "Burger, now!" with a little traffic control, we could make that happen in an hour. (In two hours, there'd also be a giant fart cloud crowning our eastern Queen City.)
I have nothing against Mooyah's Burgers, and if they bring their Texas talent here, I'll may try them out on my next visit to the big city. But to say South Dakota is short on burger joints sounds more like wishful marketing-speak than rigorous market analysis.
23 Responses to “Not Enough Burgers in South Dakota? Mooyah’s Thinks So”
Burgers are the big dog on the proverbial economic block in SD Cory. Great post by the way and Ill make sure to try them as soon as they hit the state. Merry Christmas to you and your family friend.
The Sioux Falls fart cloud has been lacking since Runza and Mean Gene's left town.
I think it would be great if Trader Joes came to Sioux Falls. The closest ones are in Mpls.
Is it true that the homes in Sioux Falls are built without kitchens?
There is an Albertson's, excuse me, Trader Joe's in Omaha.
It is anti-business to suggest that any burger joint or greasy spoon may not open a new shack in your town. The democrats want to limit your burger joints and next they will start telling you they know what should be on the menu at your favorite other eateries. I say rise up, people. Politely decline to be sucked into the liberal dream that they know what you want for eateries. Tell the libbies to stick it again, and that the legislatures should pass new laws telling the libbies to stick it and that we will be rating our burger joints where the better ones get more money. To do less than that is flat out unAmerican
I thought one of those Joe Trader stores was opening up in Madison to put that community thrift store that would help the vagrants out of business.
Grudznicker takes about 5 minutes to misinterpret Cory's post.
When a little single burger electric cooker can be purchased for a few dollars, it doesn't seem like buying burger joint food makes much sense..no matter how many burger joints are available next to no matter how many quick stores.
Get a $60 bread machine, a $15 burger cooker, and a $12 Black and Decker single mug coffee maker and burger shysters can starve. I notice the McDonald's employees here regularly eat at a convenience store. I suppose smelling those burgers all day is hard on appetite.
I better quit this before I get hungry. I made the mistake of shopping for groceries when I was hungry. We had a hard time finding room for the stuff and stuffing.
My grandfather used to hang a dead chicken around a dog's neck if they were chicken killers. Might be a good way to stop eating manufactured burgers. Although, the comments about the odd rotten burger smell you carried as an aura might get embarrassing.
Yet people seem to buy burgers, Mr. Wiken. I say let them, while you call them stupid and want to outlaw letting them buy burgers.
The masses will back me on this, Mr. Wiken.
I cannot post a thing, the giant fart cloud has me in doubt of everything.
sounds like the NRA's formula for market analysis.
Lots of guns. solution = more guns
I do love the taste of a good burger. What do they call a Quarter Pounder with cheese in France?
Royale with cheese... Because of the whole metric system. They don't know what the heck a quarter pounder is.
What do they call a Whopper?
How about a Five Guys burger joint in SD? I love their burgers!
After all many might try to make a great burger but not many succeed when it comes to a fast food burger.
Curious: if the market is underserved, why did Runza's and Mean Gene's close? Does anyone know how Mooyah's differentiates itself from those two failures or the existing market competitors?
And funny you should mention Whoppers and France: Burger King has just reopened in Marseilles after closing its 39 shops in France in 1997. To order a Whopper in Marseilles, just say, "Le Whopper, s'il vous plaît."."
How much South Dakota beef will this new place be using?
It would be nice if they would get more burger places that delivered. I'm cheap, I don't have a car and won't take cabs someplace to eat out. There is a business in town called Food Dudes Delivery-----they have a limited number of restaurants that a person can place an order for and have the meal delivered. There again, with a service like this, I don't understand why more places don't sign up with them in order to have meals delivered to people.
Grudznicker, Merry Christmas and hope you get help with your reading comprehension problem and fixation with creating strawman arguments.
Glorious Kwanzaa and a dandy Tuesday to you, Mr. Wiken. I hope you stumble across a day-long Fictional Pulp marathon on your new 67" tv and call Mike or Mr. H. to explain things to you. I'll be huddled around my 13" color screen with my turkey TV dinners (not from the food bank) with a hand-knitted blanket around my shoulders and be richer than you.
Interesting angle, Joan. I wonder: do an increasing population of retirees and maybe more working folks hunkering down in their homes with all their entertainment equipment make burger delivery (and other meals on wheels) a more viable market? Pizza has made a solid business model on delivery for decades; why not burgers?
http://www.keloland.com/newsdetail.cfm/new-food-delivery-service/?id=128511
A little late to the conversation.
also.....Food Dudes now serves the Sioux Falls Area.
http://fooddudesdelivery.com/
I know Food Dudes is in Sioux Falls. Cory, as far as people that would like more meal delivery choices, I have even talked to professional people in their thirties that would like more of a choice in deliveries, because after their kids have been in daycare all day, they don't want to leave them with a sitter so the parents can go out to eat, and the mothers have said you never know when a small child will get cranky in a restaurant, no matter how well behaved the parents think they are. These parents just don't feel it's right to have a kid that decides to get rambunctious or have a tantrum in a family style restaurant, and disturb the other diners.
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