Nassau, Bahamas - Last weekend Burger King Nassau hosted its 1,500th child’s birthday party, much to the eager delight of more than 40 kids who turned out to celebrate the occasion with the birthday boy, seven-year-old Lavardo Richards.

At the Burger King location on the Tonique Williams-Darling Highway on July 31, the children enjoyed delicious Burger King meals, slices of the special Burger King birthday cake that proudly declared “Happy Birthday Lavardo”, and utilized the playground facilities at the restaurant. The kids also thoroughly loved having their faces painted by the face painter on hand.

Ms. Deidre Young, Burger King Nassau’s Director of Operations, said that over the years the Tonique Williams-Darling Highway store has become renowned for such birthday celebrations, and that Burger King is happy and proud to be the choice of parents who have come to appreciate that their children could not have a happier time any place else.

Perhaps the happiest of all was Lavardo Richards, a student at the Thelma Gibson Primary School in Elizabeth Estates, who proudly boasted that last term at school he chalked up an “A” in Religious Knowledge. 

His parents, Torri Deveaux and Lavardo Richards, Sr., were on hand to join in the festivities. The other guests included friends, cousins, and other members of the family.

When the children were not cavorting up and down the slides and playground facilities, they were participating in games organised by the two Burger King hostesses, Sophia Sears and Kacia Rolle, who arranged the birthday activities.

“Over the years Burger King in Nassau has become the preferred quick service restaurant of choice for kids, for families, and for the young at heart. Whenever we have an opportunity to express appreciation for that patronage, such as when a birthday rolls around, we do all we can to make it a memorable occasion,” said Ms Young, who, along with Burger King's Operations Manager Micka Williams and busy photographer Kermit Taylor, carefully and successfully orchestrated what has become a now famous Burger King birthday party.

Ms. Young said that last Sunday's birthday party, the 1,500th such party that Burger King Nassau has hosted, was the largest yet, and the staff met the challenge head on. All the children – and their parents – went home with full bellies and huge smiles.

Burger King operates at five convenient locations in Nassau.