{"id":7950,"date":"2017-12-22T19:32:19","date_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:32:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com?p=2898223&amp;preview_id=2898223"},"modified":"2017-12-22T19:32:19","modified_gmt":"2017-12-22T19:32:19","slug":"jack-in-the-box-will-test-meal-tailored-to-cannabis-consumers-with-the-munchies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/jack-in-the-box-will-test-meal-tailored-to-cannabis-consumers-with-the-munchies\/","title":{"rendered":"Jack in the Box will test meal tailored to cannabis consumers with the munchies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/jack-in-the-box-will-test-meal-tailored-to-cannabis-consumers-with-the-munchies\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"large-10 large-centered small-12 columns\">\n<div class=\"entry-meta-date\">Published: Dec 22, 2017, 10:49 am \u2022 Updated: Dec 22, 2017, 12:18 pm<span class=\"single-comments-link\" \/><\/div>\n<p class=\"byline\">By <strong>Craig Giammona<\/strong>, <em> Bloomberg<\/em><\/p>\n<p>For Jack in the Box Inc., the warm smell of marijuana is rising in the air.<\/p>\n<p>As California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/11\/20\/california-marijuana-recreational-start-timeline\/92655\/\">prepares for legal recreational pot on Jan. 1<\/a>, the fast-food chain is partnering with a digital media company backed by rapper Snoop Dogg on a new \u201cmunchie\u201d meal aimed at cannabis enthusiasts. While marijuana\u2019s connection to fast food is well-established, Jack in the Box will become the first national chain to explicitly embrace the drug.<\/p>\n<p>The \u201cMerry Munchie Meal,\u201d which will be available at three California locations for a week in January for $4.20, features two tacos, french fries, onion rings, five mini churros, three chicken strips and a small drink. The price isn\u2019t random: The number <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecannabist.co\/2017\/04\/20\/420-origin-meaning-faq-marijuana\/77864\/\">420 is used as a code in cannabis circles<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jack in the Box, with more than 2,200 restaurants, has struggled amid intense competition from a resurgent McDonald\u2019s and its chief burger rivals, Burger King and Wendy\u2019s. Earlier this month, the San Diego-based company agreed to sell its Qdoba chain to the private equity firm Apollo Global Management LLC.<\/p>\n<p>Legal weed may be just the thing to help regain some buzz.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are about welcoming all of our guests, no matter what they\u2019re craving orwhy they\u2019re craving it,\u201d said Iwona Alter, the chain\u2019s chief marketing officer.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><!-- .row --> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><\/div>\n<p>The &#8220;Merry Munchie Meal,&#8221; will be available at three California Jack in the Box locations for a week in January for, you guessed it, $4.20. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[45,6811,5889,6813,77,5667,9,5019,5921,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[2628,6816,5895,6818,2655,5673,5022,5936],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}