Sydney - A Sydney restaurant is capitalising on an appetite for all things Pokemon GO by selling a limited number of burgers based on characters from the blockbuster smartphone game.
Sydney's Hashtag Burger and its pop-up restaurant Down N' Out Burgers are offering 100 “Pokeburgs” a day until September 3, with long queues of people lining up on Friday to get a taste of a yellow Pikachu, pink Charmander or green Bulbasaur burger.
Staff said the Pikachu burger with corn-chip ears had proved the most popular, but the restaurant had decided that customers couldn't choose which character they get, in line with the surprise element of the augmented-reality game.
Pokemon GO, developed by Niantic and an affiliate of Japan's Nintendo Company Ltd, sees players walk around real-life neighbourhoods to hunt down virtual cartoon characters visible only on their smartphone screens.
REUTERS