“It’s great American cheese, and it just melts perfectly on the burger,” he added. “Government cheese is there to remind us where we came from,” Paul Wahlberg said. It features a signature “Wahl sauce” as well as “government cheese,” processed cheese for welfare recipients. The menu features seven burgers priced $9.95-$15.95, with Our Burger, his favorite, being the most popular. He is proud of Wahlburgers’ menu and described his strength as pleasing customers. It’s great being in business with my family. He said Alma Wahlberg is going to be greatly missed. Is Mark going to be here? Is Donnie going to be here? How’s your mom? We get a lot of that.” “It’s a lot of Donnie and Mark questions. ribbon cutting ceremony on Friday, July 23. Paul was at the center of the “Wahlburgers” reality series, which depicted him as trying to maintain his own vision for the restaurants while dealing with input from Mark, Donnie, and their strong-willed mother Alma, who died in April.įascination with the series brings a lot of customers to “Wahlbergers,” Paul Wahlberg said in an interview before an 11 a.m. He got his start in the restaurant business at 17, first working for a catering company and later at a restaurant called Trolleys near Boston Garden.