GTA 6 is now on the menu in Miami, with a real Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell

Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell, GTA's fast food chains, now exist in real life: both stands opened on the night of 21 October at the Kaseya Center, home of the Miami Heat, and you can actually eat there. Fan photos on X gave it away, GameSpot confirmed it, and it doesn't stop there: according to the same outlet, Burger Shot burgers will leave the arena in November and be sold at other restaurants across Florida until the end of the year. Here's what the stands look like, what they cost, where you'll be able to order and what else Rockstar has slipped into the arena.

What do the Burger Shot and Cluckin' Bell in the arena look like?

Like they walked straight out of the game. Burger Shot has a red counter, the ketchup-dripping burger logo, checkered diner floor tiles and a pillar with the palm-tree VI from the GTA 6 logo.

A few steps away, impossible to miss, is Cluckin' Bell: wrapped in yellow, with a white checkered stripe, the bell with a rooster's comb and the brand's blue lettering above the counter. It's the KFC parody Rockstar has been sneaking into the series since GTA: San Andreas, the same one that ended up starring in an entire heist at a chicken farm in GTA Online. The screens behind the counter show numbered combos, although you can't read what's in them in the photos.

Can you really eat there, and how much does it cost?

You can, and GameSpot makes that clear in its headline: you can buy "GTA 6 burgers and fried chicken", but it isn't cheap. There's a catch, though. According to VGC, the Burger Shot is really the arena's existing Skinny Louie burger stand, dressed up in the game's branding with new uniforms for the staff. It shows in the details: in content creator Joel Franco's video, the cup and the fries carry the Burger Shot logo, but the paper bag still says Skinny Louie.

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BURGER SHOT MEAL at the Miami Heat game

According to Joel Franco, the cheapest combo, with a cheeseburger, fries and a drink, costs $28.50 before tax, and the Burger Shot cup is an extra $6. NBA arena prices, in other words, with a surcharge for taking the souvenir home. No prices have surfaced for Cluckin' Bell.

Just don't expect the Heart Stopper, the seven-patty monster that was Burger Shot's signature dish in GTA V: the real menu is smash burgers, fries and drinks.

Will you be able to eat Burger Shot outside the arena?

Yes, and that's the juiciest part. According to GameSpot, Rockstar and Skinny Louie announced on Instagram that Burger Shot burgers, with a menu "straight out of Vice City", will be sold at every Skinny Louie location in Florida from early November until 31 December. In South Florida you'll be able to order in store or for delivery.

Skinny Louie is a South Florida smash burger chain with its restaurants spread around Miami and the surrounding area, so anyone visiting over Christmas will have an easier time trying it than those who only make it to a game. Cluckin' Bell, on the other hand, isn't leaving the Kaseya Center, at least for now: nobody has said it will open anywhere else or how long it will stay.

What else from Vice City is in the arena?

Quite a lot. One corridor has a green wall with a giant palm-tree VI; another, a black wall with "Welcome to Vice City" in pink letters, the same slogan Rockstar planted on the arena's roof in September and for which it is paying Miami-Dade County $975,000, according to Fortune. The lifts, according to GameSpot, carry ads for Vice City FM, one of the game's radio stations.

And the oddest detail: a huge Macca & Friends poster, with Macca the alligator in a palm-print shirt and sunglasses, surrounded by his friends and a line at the bottom: "Coming November 19 on Weazel". Weazel is the series' TV network, so everything suggests Macca's show will be on the in-game TVs.

Macca isn't new if you've been following the campaign: he's the star of the €399.99 collector's box and has his own T-shirt in the official clothing collection.

It's no coincidence that it all happens in the same building. On 18 November, the eve of launch, the Heat will play the Milwaukee Bucks as a Vice City team, with their own kit and court: we covered it in A Night in Vice City.

What else has Rockstar set up in Miami?

The food stands are the latest piece of a campaign that has taken over half the city: Vice City cars on the streets, a blimp and banner planes, a shoot that smells like a live-action trailer, the game's beers in real cans and some Vice City sunloungers on Miami Beach that cost the person who filmed them early his job.

Not everyone is amused. The county sheriff and several commissioners have opposed using public spaces to promote the game, summing up their position in one line: "Miami-Dade is not Vice City". Other local politicians shrug it off: it's just a video game, they say.

If you're heading to a Heat game before 19 November, you know the drill: burger at Burger Shot, chicken at Cluckin' Bell, and have your wallet ready.