Burgerville officially expands into Central Oregon with grand opening
Harley Coldiron
BEND, Ore. (KTVZ) — Over 100 hundred people lined up outside of Burgerville’s newest location on 3rd Street in Bend, for the grand opening of its newest location. The first 100 customers of the fast food chain received a promotional gift card for the equivalent of 52 Burgerville burgers.
After the early-morning crowd cleared out, a ribbon-cutting ceremony took place, with Burgerville CEO Ed Casey speaking on the importance of local partnerships.
“Fresh food just tastes better. And so if you’re getting it local and you’re getting it quickly and it’s not frozen, it’s a fresh product, it’s just a higher quality meal to start with. So there’s that. But it’s also about participating in the community,” Casey told KTVZ News. “When you’re buying local, you’re trading with economies in the market and it helps everybody. So those are the most important pieces of it. And I think it speaks to most of our guests.”
The new location has already employed 60 locals.
“60 (employees) is probably about right to start, but if it gets busier than we can handle with that, then we would hire a few more,” Casey said. “We hope to grow in this market and put another store in down the road.”
For the first 30 days, there’s a Bend-exclusive item on the menu: the Pub Beer Cheese Slider.
It features Bend’s own 10 Barrel Beer Cheese, pasture-raised beef patty from Country Natural Beef, and is served on a pretzel bun. Burgerville will donate 20% of all slider proceeds to The Giving Plate, a Bend nonprofit food relief organization.