What a burger

I know this is a national post. But there is some one out there that may understand this.  I am speaking of What-a-burger Inc a regional hamburger chain that has at it's roots a start in Corpus Christi,Texas a small coastal town in South Texas.  What-a-burger decided that had outgrown Corpus and packed up and moved away from there like corpus had the plague.  It moved to San Antonio opened a huge headquarters and never looked back. 
I was able to participate in the steer sale at San Antonio,  While I  was in their I was looking around, taking notes on who was there and buying projects.  There was someone that was not in the sale ring.  What-a-burger.  That very business What-a-burger who said San Antonio had so much more to offer a business of their "Callaber"  I ask you, what do you think the one thing is that made What-a-burger is famous for?  What goes into a hamburger?  chicken? pork? Oh Yeah wait Beef.  So if San Antonio had so much to offer why did they not participate in the sale of the one thing that made them who they are? If anyone can tell me I would like to know.

Just wondering if any other chains based in San antonio didnt make it out.  yes prob.  not every company is able to or had the knowledge to do somethng like this.  it would be a good deal if they would have been there.  but they were not.  So what.  can you find anything else to complain about.  did jack in the box make it to the sale in san diago or wendys to ohio?  prob not.  What a burger is  only in tx.  the other chains i spoke of are national chains.  you should be more upset that the other national chains were not at their local sales.  if it gets under your skin you should boycott them.  I understand what yursaying but come on man.  It wuld be nice if they would have shown up.  I just dont believe that they are aslarge of an opperation as the other that were mentioned.  sorry for the bluntness of my comment my cousin is thet president of what a burger. 

To my knowledge, Braums has never given anything to the sale in OKC (Braums' corporate headquarters). I know that when some businessmen started the Sirloin Club (patterned after the Fort Worth Syndicate) they went to Bill Braum asking for his support. He answered them to something of the fact of him not having any help when he started, thus he would not donate. The only thing you can do, is not patronise businesses. You can bet that when I need a hamburger fast, I will stop at McDonalds (corporate sponsor of OYE, and put on a breakfast for kids that make the premium sale) rather than go to Braums.

texas111 said:

Just wondering if any other chains based in San antonio didnt make it out.  yes prob.  not every company is able to or had the knowledge to do somethng like this.  it would be a good deal if they would have been there.  but they were not.  So what.  can you find anything else to complain about.  did jack in the box make it to the sale in san diago or wendys to ohio?  prob not.  What a burger is  only in tx.  the other chains i spoke of are national chains.  you should be more upset that the other national chains were not at their local sales.  if it gets under your skin you should boycott them.  I understand what yursaying but come on man.  It wuld be nice if they would have shown up.  I just dont believe that they are aslarge of an opperation as the other that were mentioned.  sorry for the bluntness of my comment my cousin is thet president of what a burger.  

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Wendy's(when Dave Thomas was alive), Kroger's (grocery chain) ,Bob Evans and many many more are at the sale of champions every year at the Ohio State Fair. McDon'alds , Walmart, Buckeye Feed and Ready Mix I think Ohio is pretty lucky to have the support it does.

For those who might not know the back story...

Odem is 20 minutes from Corpus and the residents of that town have been quite upset about the decision to move Whataburger’s HQ to San Antonio since it was announced.

In general, I think we should (and I personally do) make choices to support businesses that back our junior livestock sales - whether its at the county level or the state level.  However, I don't think you should completely boycot or be mad at businesses that don't support them.  We have to keep the big picture in mind.  There is lots of competition for charitable donations.  On the whole, livestock exhibitors don't need the money - especially those showing at the state level - as badly as lots of other charities do.

i don't understand why anyone is entitled to a price over market.  sounds like blackmail to me.

all i know about wataburger is they make some darn good burgers

knabe said:

i don't understand why anyone is entitled to a price over market.  sounds like blackmail to me.

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Who said anything about entitlement? The OP was just stating (from what I gather) disappointment in Whataburger's lack of support in the premium sale. Everyone I've been around that showed or had one of their children that showed, was very vocal in stating their graciousness for the support given to them.

nothing about entitlement, but shouldn't people be able to support those that support them when given a choice.  Sounds like reverse blackmail if they can't

knabe said:

i don't understand why anyone is entitled to a price over market.  sounds like blackmail to me.

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Blackmail? I think it is far from it. I and many people are going to support these companies that support and give back to the communities. For our 4-H supporters that buy these kids steers and animals, I would spend my money in their stores and companies before one the don't.  As far as market price, it is all what the supporters want to bid up to. I don't even have a problem with companies that show up and bid, if they don't win no big deal they were there supporting these communities and programs.  I'm glad we don't deal with this much around here because most of the companies around here are very generous to the 4-H programs.

Biggest thing to be said on this subject in my opinion is to tell businesses that they are getting your money because they support shows.

Case in point, a couple of years I just happened to stop in one of these full-service car washes in Fort Worth close to my office.  They had a bunch of autographed photos on their wall of Miss Texas, sports figures, etc.  In amongst them was several photos from the Fort Worth steer sale.  I asked to speak to the manager.  I'm sure he thought someone wanted to gripe about something.  He came out and I told him that he would get my business (including oil changes) because of those photos.  He told me I was the first person that he knew of that ever noticed them.  I thanked him for supporting that program - even though they haven't ever bought my kids steers.  Guess what - there are one or two new photos hanging up there every year.

i like chambero's post.  it says what one WILL do instead of what they WON'T do.

i guess i'm just tired of the boycott mentality.

Looks like they are a sponsor somewhere.

Whosh.. I did not mean to open a can of worms.  Thank you for reading my post. Odem is only 20 min. away , the closest whataburger is actually only 5 min away.  The fact is that when they were a smaller coperation they were big supports of a lot of things agricultural related, Now. according to their web site that if you want their support it has to meet a big enough criteria and impact for their support.  In San Antonio, the rodeo like Houston is a Big impact.  I am not upset that they did not support My Kids, I was merely stating a fact that they didn't buy a single beef project... HEB  food stores headquarter used to be Corrpus and moved to San Antonio, they  were in on almost all projects that made the auction!! That is a statement of impact

I agree Knabe, tho my previous post my see contradictory now, i agree that everyone wanting to boycott anyone/thing that doesn't see the world from their point of view gets really old

A business can choose to either support something, or not; just like each of us as individuals can choose to patronize a business or not. That's one of the many great rights that we all have.....freedom of choice

If one really thinks a company should support some show or sale, why not put together a presentation, get an appointment and then plead your case.

Just saying