That's a genius use of that offering. Great instant story.<p>As for the offering itself (pre-paying a large sum in advance for, essentially, free-food-for-life at a new restaurant): I wonder if that's a sane method for restaurants generally. There are two in Ogaki that I'd happily spend $1k on, but I'd worry that it would change my relationship with the owners. Being a regular at the local diner is great -- the owner comes out to greet you when you come in, you always get exactly what you like exactly the way you like it, and in general they try to make you feel like a king. I'd hate to have date night in 2019 ruined by "Patrick, you're here <i>again</i>? Dude, it's a Saturday night. I could <i>sell</i> that table. #($'#( it. Well, OK, what will it be -- the free #%(#ing burger again?"
Tangentially on topic, McDonalds used to have a special once a week where they'd sell cheeseburgers for $0.35 or hamburgers for $0.25. I would, from time to time, walk into the place with fifteen dollars in my pocket (and two co-workers, as they put a limit on how many one person could buy), and walk out with a sack o' sixty neatly wrapped hamburgers.<p>I'd bring them back to the office, and simply start tossing them at people in their cubicles (or in the parking lot from a moving vehicle if they were unlucky enough to be walking past when I pulled in), and basically just feed the entire building.<p>I don't think they intended that to happen with their little loss-leader deal to get folks in the door, but it sure was fun. It caught on too. If you haven't had a sack of 20 warm burgers dumped into your lap while you weren't paying attention, you haven't lived.
<i>Speaking as a vegetarian with a sense of British humour that not all y'mericanz get...</i><p>A better deal for you meat-eaters - go to market and buy your own cow!!! I think that with post and packaging you could get a whole one for £200 or so depending on how lame it was. Give your cow a name, e.g. Ronald.<p>Next, get some meat grinder or improvise one. Pop to your local hire shop and just hire one of those chipper things tree surgeons use to turn whole trees into small bits. Give it a proper clean and now put your freshly purchased cow through it. You might want to hire a chainsaw too so you can cut things like the anus out first, or maybe the eyes or perhaps the teeth if you don't want to choke on them in your burger. You could even cut off things like Ronald's gonads for a special treat. Depends on when you hire, but you can expect to part with a good £50 - £100 for hiring such tools.<p>Now for freezing your 100% pure British Beef. Get a few chest freezers from the local tip or advertised on a freecycle thing. Expect to pay a few bob to a mate with a van big enough to get your chest freezers home. Maybe offer to pay in burgers.<p>The electricity bill for the freezers could be £100 a year, maybe even higher depending on how big your cow was. Depending on how many burgers you scoff and how quickly your 'leccy bill will vary.<p>How many burgers you end up making depends on how thin you make your burgers and how much connective tissue (brain, spinal cord) you put through the wood-chipper. You could make many, many thousands of them rather than a mere one thousand. Or you could make just the one cow-sized burger. Or do whatever on a day to day basis, maybe making other beef creations like shepherds pie from the basic mix. Or perhaps meatballs - just drop them in the deep-fat fryer as and when the urge arises.<p>One benefit of this DiY approach is that any sarky vegetarians will be impressed that you haven't left the difficult killing bit up to some distant abattoir, plus you will have connected with your inner hunter-gatherer self by getting immersed in the gore of killing an animal, as God intended. There will also be considerable benefits when the zombie apocalypse happens, as predicted by George W Bush in 2001.
Burger bear tom has the best burger in London. 80% of the programmers at the company I work for (myself included) went in at the 1-month-of-burgers level as soon as the KS launched and then the company chipped in to buy a team lunch for everyone.<p>The London startup scene around Shoreditch is great fun, particularly because of these ancillary bonuses (being in a trendy part of town)<p>Interestingly, Burger Bear has long been a bitcoin-friendly vendor; one of the other programmers has bought all his burgers in Btc so far! Only times I've ever witnessed a real-life Btc transaction.
I've accidentally run into Andrew at various points in my career, he's a very smart and capable guy, I always come away having learned a lot from him. He already knows basically everyone in the London startup scene, so I'd wager that anyone who has a burger with him will have more to gain from an hour of his time than the other way around.
Basically, this is genius. Thank you all for an interesting read... The #BB1000 is a big time KS reward for sure. To be fair, anyone who backed me on this reward can have what ever they like.... This is the start of my new world and you made it happen. #Cryptohub #BurgerHack #DiscoJoint<p>See you there!
This is expensive $$ for the project. I assume that this burger retails for $8-10 dollars and that his location will sell 200 burgers a day. So he is giving up 1% of revenues for 1 1/2 years! Freemium doesn't work in the restaurant space.
Head's up to the OP, you have a typo in your title here: <a href="http://howwastheburger.com/i-want-a-burger/" rel="nofollow">http://howwastheburger.com/i-want-a-burger/</a><p>Want <i>on</i> of ...
Naming your Google Apps organisation with your own name has at least one amusing side effect: "This form was created inside of Andrew McDonough". (Probably true, literally speaking...)
> It was a ridiculous idea, and so I knew I had to do it.<p>I like this guy.<p>I work for an Amsterdam startup and expect to be in London later this year, is this open to foreigners?
Mark Karpeles used all the BTC on cheeseburgers [1] #bitcoinconspiracy<p>[1] <a href="http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091104170948/trailerpark/images/a/a0/Randy.jpg" rel="nofollow">http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091104170948/trailerpar...</a>