The five celebrities that should be inspired by ‘Wahlburgers’ to open their own joints

  • Somewhere, someone’s drinking a pork cocktail.

Life, on occasion, resembles The Onion. And when the news that Mark Wahlberg and his family had opened Wahlburgers in Hingham, Massachusetts, came across the transom this week, I assumed that this was a beautiful internet mock-up of the beefcake. Nope. Our Family. Our Story. Our Burgers. is happening.

If Hollywood has taught us anything, it’s that Americans will consume something until they are sick of it and then move on to the next thing (think Disaster movies, Lost imitators and Eliza Dushku vehicles). As a result, there’s only a short window for other celebrities to jump on the bandwagon and launch restaurants based on their names, but here are five that we think could get something up and running fairly quickly.

Categories: Dining, Food & Drink