Free burgers? Tuesday night Brewers win could make it happen

Many baseball fans are closely watching the red hot Brewers right now as they have the longest current win streak in Major League Baseball at 11, but a southeast Wisconsin restaurant is watching them for a different reason. Because they may have to do good on a decades old promise if the team wins their next game.

In the late 40s, George Webb Restaurants audibly stated that if the Braves, who were the baseball team in Milwaukee at the time, were to win 12 games in a row, they would give away free hamburgers.

In 1965 the restaurant solidified the promotion by having it put on the wall’s décor in their restaurants.

It took until 1987, but the Brewers, who came to town in 1970 to fill a void left by the departing Braves in 1965, won 12 games in a row.

At that time, George Webb made good on it’s promise, giving away 168,194 free hamburgers.

It’s happened one other time and that was in 2018. At that time, George Webb capped off the free burgers the next day at 90,000, but then handed out 100,000 coupons for a free burger at a later date.

It’s unknown exactly how the restaurant will handle giving out the burgers this time around, but if the Brew Crew wins Tuesday night in Seattle, they will have to figure it out pretty quick because that will again be 12 in a row.

George Webb opened it’s first restaurant in Milwaukee in 1948 and while one used to grace Main Street in Fond du Lac decades ago next to the Retlaw Hotel, the closest one now to Fond du Lac is in West Bend.