Xtreme Cheese, Onion Petals & Orange Creme Oh My!

OK Krystal Lovers! Its July 4th weekend. And you know what that means? Plenty of reasons to get Krystal and go on a picnic and see some fireworks....

I'm pretty excited b/c we have three new things that have just come out. The Xtreme Cheese Combo that includes a Cheese Krystal, Bacon Cheese Krystal and a Double Cheese Krystal. Now Kenny and I have come up with a Krystal burger method to eating this awesome combo:

1. Eat the Cheese Krystal. If you eat it after the other two sandwiches it will seem plain
2. Eat the Double Cheese Krystal. It will build on the Cheesiness of the first
3. Then eat the Bacon Cheese Krystal which has amazing flavor thanks to the Bacon

Then you order some new Vidalia Onion Petals which are GREAT! (See previous post) and you wash it down with our Orange Creme frozen Icee. YUM....

FYI: Brad and Mike are back in the office and just a little sleep deprived. And yes in my last post I forgot to give our Krystal Lover Hall of Famer, Jason Jennette credit for coming up with the term "Burgatory" So kudos Jason.

Deconstructing Krystal

The sight of a Krystal being torn down is enough to being a tear to my eye. If any of you have driven by the Brainerd Road Krystal in Chattanooga in the past few days, I know you have felt this sadness. But Brainerd Krystal Lovers, take heart. The Krystal is being rebuilt, and will be better than ever. Exciting things are happening. It will be unlike any other Krystal on earth. For now the only clues I can give you are two letters and a number. K. H. 60. If you live in Chattanooga, keep you eyes on Brainerd Road. If you can't make it to Chattanooga, keep checking here, and we will keep you up to date.

There is no place like home....

Got the following e-mail from my boss first thing this morning....

To: Kenny, Tiffany
From: Brad
RE: WORST TRIP EVER

Full details later, but we are still in Chicago with no guarantee of getting home in the near future. We were at the airport from 4 pm untl 2 am and then they had us get off the plane and find a hotel. But now. We have to get to airport by 6 am to try and find flights back sometime today. Wouldn't count on seeing me today at all. I will check in later today on status of return.

Since they are in Burgatory they can't even chill with some Krystals! We feel for you guys! Hope you are back soon..... So Kenny! How about a long lunch today?

Rainy Day at the Krystal Headquarters

Remember when I said that I wouldn't kid Kenny anymore. Well I lied. However, he did take a half day today so I thought I would update everyone on the status of his desk organization. I think everyone can agree its much improved.

Another Krystal Thursday Thirteen Post

I thougt I would start off our second post on the Thursday Thirteen tip to talk about our newest Krystal addition in Denton, TX. Their Grand Opening was Monday and from the pictures it was action packed. Grand Openings for Krystal are like no other fast food opening. People line up for over 24 hours to be the first in line. They camp out overnight and bring laptops (and they can use our free wi-fi) and even TV's to entertain themselves. If you've never been to a Krystal Grand Opening I suggest you go to the next one in Grand Prarie, TX in July. Here are some facts from the Denton opening:

• The first customer arrived 24 hours prior to the opening
• There were approximately 100 people in line by the time the doors opened
• The first 73 people were awarded food prizes to celebrate the opening and Krystal's 73 year history
• The Krystal "Secret Recipe" was delivered by helicopter.

Now you ask, "What does this have to do with the Thursday Thirteen?" Well click on any of the pictures above and it will take you to a slideshow of the pictures from the Denton opening. (All in all totalling 13)

Not Your Ordinary Fast Food Wallpaper

Just to add a little Krystal Fun to your Friday, here is a sneak peek at one of the elements that will soon be available at the new addition to www.krystal.com Plenty of computer wallpapers you can download to deck your computer out in true Krystal style.

Move over Pups! It's time for something Cheesier!

Hey! It's Jennifer, the original POP goddess. For all you Krystal Lovers who adore Cheese, your dream has come true. Coming soon to a Krytal near you........It's the Xtreme Cheese Combo - a Cheese Krystal, a Double Cheese Krystal, and a Bacon Cheese Krystal!! Wow! What an Xtreme experience! Take it from a Krystal Lover who loves Cheese, it's AWESOME! I dare to say it's the perfect combo of sandwiches. But that's me, daring. You might even say I'm Xtreme! And that's why I looovvee Krystal! So to all you Krystal Lovers, how Xtreme are you??

Krystal Loves Myspace!

We at Krystal love myspace. We also love how our Krystal lovers post about their Krystal experiences and their opinions about Krystal in their myspace blogs. Here are a couple of my favorites.... A blog about someone's love for Krystal Wi-fi, another blog about a late night drive thru experience, and someone who actually named their myspace page Krystal burgers. Other non-myspace blogs that are great are:

A poem about Krystal

A late night irreverant ad (Warning: this guy really does not mince words...)

A Krystal Mardi Gras Experience

Another Youtube-Krystal Moment

Well Blogger.com is acting screwy again so I thought I would go ahead and do a mini-post this morning. I have included another fav of mine from the ever popular Youtube.com. This is a prank call that someone made to a Krystal store. Not sure why they added the Whitecastle logo but nevertheless they say in the description it was a Krystal they called. Click on the picture and it will take you to the prank call on the Youtube site. Enjoy!

Youtube and Krystal

Ok, one of my new hobbies is going to Youtube and looking at all the hilarious videos people post. You wouldn't believe how much time people have and how creative they can be with that time. These videos are hilarious and one of the funniest things I've found is people filming their Krystal experience. In this picture (click on it and it will take you to the video) some kids are taking pictures of a pyramid of Krystal boxes and filming the person who is taking a picture of the pyramid (Did I lose you yet?) Anyways we at corporate LOVE these videos so if anyone has some great ideas and a yearning to be a filmaker send them to us. We can't get enough of these Krystal Videos....And when you're done at Youtube go on over to the new Myspace Video section for more Krystal Videos-complete with someone trying to eat a Krystal in three seconds. (Its not a pretty outcome)

Please feed the Krystal Hostess!

Sorry to our Krystal Fans for not posting the past three days! Blogger.com was down and it was impossible for us to post. But now that we are back I thought I would showcase one of the elements of our website. In the past we decided that our website would benefit from a "hostess" to greet everyone who comes to our website and give them a tour of the cool things there are to do. However, when we put up our new hostess comments began circling the internet about how it looked like we had been depriving her of Krystals. Well not to worry. In the near future Krystal will be featuring real life Krystal Lovers as our host/hostesses of the website. So if you think you would be a great host/hostess for the Krystal website just go to www.krystal.com and submit your Krystal Lover story.

Ursprache

Last night 13-year old Katharine Close saved America from what would have been the latest in a string of devastating defeats. Close correctly spelled "ursprache" to claim victory over Finola Hackett, a Canadian, in the Scripps Howard National Spelling Bee. Without entering the debate over whether a Canadian should have even been competing in the "National" championship I will say that it would have been a crushing blow to the American psyche for a Canadian to have won "our" bee.

I have nothing against Canadians. In fact, as a general rule I find Canadians to be quite pleasant. As a proud American, however, I have seen was can only be described as a disappointing trend of underperforming on the world stage in recent years. In basketball, a game invented in America, a team of American NBA players settled for a humiliating bronze medal in the 2004 Olympics. In the World Baseball Classic, America was eliminated in the second round of our own "national pastime." Each of these is disappointing enough, and to lose our own National Spelling Bee would have been just as bad, but there is one defeat that hurts more than the rest.

No American has ever won the Krystal Square Off World Hamburger Eating Championship. Read that sentence again and prepare to shed a tear as this horrible truth sinks in. The Krystal was invented in America, by Americans, and has been loved since 1932 by millions of Americans. In fact Krystal Lovers have been having eating contests since 1932 when Roy Ward, Krystal's second customer, claimed he could eat twice as many Krystals as French Jenkins. He did just that by eating 12 Krystals, and according to legend invented the Krystal Sackful in the process. Despite this long history of Krystal eating, no American has been able to defeat Japanese competitive eating legend Takeru Kobayashi in the Square Off. In 2005, Joey Chestnut came close, leading Kobayashi until the final minute. With recent strong performances in hotdogs, wings, jalapeno poppers, asparagus, and milk, Joey looks poised to give Kobayashi another challenge.

But America cannot depend solely upon Joey Chestnut to defend our honor as a nation. Krystal Lovers, I implore you to stand up next to Katharine Close, eat lots of Krystals, and bring back the championship that is rightfully ours.

Krystal Joins the Thursday Thirteen

Since we have joined the blogosphere I have found some cool things that bloggers join in on. One of them is called the "Thursday Thirteen." Since Krystal never likes to be left out we've decided to join the pack. This post will be Thirteen things you may not have known about the Krystal menu.

1. You can still Chili-Cheesify your Krystal burgers upon request anytime

2. You can Chili-Cheesify your fries

3. You can add Bacon to any menu item (Pups, Chiks, Krystals)

4. You can add Cheese to any menu item (My favorite is Chiks)

5. You can get Cheese Pups only (For those of us who aren't in a Chili mood)

6. You get can only Cheese on Fries (See above note)

7. You can get an icee instead of a soft drink in a combo (added charge)

8. Krystal has limited time only Icee Flavors (next up: Orange Creme)

9. You can substitute Chik'n Bites for your fries when you purchase a combo

10. Vidalia Onions are back on the menu starting in July

11. You can purchase Krystals all day long

12. You can get the Chik Club all year long

13. You can get your Pups loaded with everything on them

So I hope you learned something new about Krystal from this, our first, Thursday Thirteen segment. I have to give credit to some of the creative ideas to our very own Krystal Kid, Krystal's blogger supreme. And if you haven't seen his blog be sure to check out even more creative ideas with our Krystal food. (**Krystal Disclaimer** Some of these above requests will require an extra charge)

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