Apparently this has been in place for a couple months, according to some blog posts I found, but I just saw this sign on a door at a Burger King in Rosemount, Minnesota that speaks to today’s times.
Of course, we’ve all heard of similar restrictions and policies at health club locker rooms with the rise of cell phone cameras and smaller video cameras.
It’s certainly predictable and largely acceptable that a store or restaurant could tell you to put your video camera or still camera away if they see you using it. But do they really need a sign?
Aren’t signs better used for things like “We ban guns on the premises” (Seen all over here in Minnesota), or the ever popular “No shirt, no shoes, no service”?
BK’s video/photo ban sign also sparks an interesting double standard in my mind…
This is the same fast-food factory that tried to go viral with the “Whopper Freakout,” by shooting video – commercials – inside its restaurants seemingly without getting prior permission of the customers, just to get their reaction when told that BK had “discontinued the Whopper.”
How many people did they videotape, who after they were let in on the joke, told BK they did not want to be part of the commercials?
By the way, here’s the long-form version of the Whopper Freakout:
Funny stuff, but a double standard given their new anti-video sign, perhaps? Guess you’ll have to leave your cameras at home if you decide to bring your cameras to your kids’ birthday party at BK?
I couldn’t end this post without noting that more recently, a video of a BK employee’s bubble bath on the job shed a different kind of light on videotaping at BK:
Nice.
