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Well a 1000 burgers are 3 years worth of lunch. Also if you are allowed to take a few at a this is great marketing for free - telling all the colleagues - a few

Well a 1000 burgers are 3 years worth of lunch. Also if you are allowed to take a few at a this is great marketing for free - telling all the colleagues - a few burgers are on me in that place. Chances to convert to a regular at least one of them is high. Probably it is how the awards will be defined. Because kickstarter is not preorder. Also the Kickstarter community so far has shown to be remarkably supporting. So I doubt that they will abuse the privileges that will be awarded. Also basic rule for the rewards should be that you are overpaying but you like it that way. The 1000 burgers for 1000 GBP is clearly unsustainable. But looking at the KS it seems more like a marketing stunt the high tiers. So it is probably budgeted.

ashray 13y ago
It's quite unlikely that someone who orders a 1000 burgers is actually going to eat them. I can't picture myself eating 1000 of the same kind of burger .. or in the same place.. I guess most people would eat 200 burgers (I'd say at the high end..) which would come out to 5GBP per burger. Not bad for the establishment.. I can't think of any average but even 100 sounds high to me.
- shasta 13y ago
  Did you see the picture of the burger in the article? All this guy has to do is declare that remaining prepaid burgers are non-transferable upon death, and he'll only ever have to make a few hundred per buyer.
  - cfontes 13y ago
    That is a good point to raise :D I had a micro heart attack just by looking at it.
  - andrewmcdonough 13y ago
    Actually the burger in the picture is healthier than you'd think. It's very good quality beef. I have a balanced diet and exercise lots. I also subscribe to the 'fat is not the enemy' school of thought. Maybe I'll take some before and after photos to prove it!
    - asciimo 13y ago
      The quality of the beef isn't the point. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-much-protein-could-lead-to-early-death-study-says/2014/03/04/0af0603e-a3b5-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...
      - andrewmcdonough 13y ago
        There has been much discussion on this piece of research, and issues raised about the reporting of it. I think the response from the NHS was balanced: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/high-protein-diet-may-be-harmful-for-middle-aged.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/high-protein-diet-...
      - barry-cotter 13y ago
        That study is garbage. It doesn't distinguish between processed and unprocessed meat. It is best filed in the circular container on the floor.
    - caseysoftware 13y ago
      I'm coming to London for the first time in a decade this coming week. I'd love to have a burger with the guy who decided to do this. If you're interested, drop me a note: keith @ op3nvoice.com
- sillysaurus3 13y ago
  I just looked at the burger in question. Wow! I'd totally eat 1,000 of those. But I guess I should start caring about things like not having heart attacks, so I don't know. My heart says "yes" though.
  - jasonkester 13y ago
    My advice would be to come to England and eat a hamburger here before committing to a thousand of them, regardless of how good they look in the picture. I sometimes daydream about importing the cheapest, far-end-of-the-freezer-aisle, just-barely-not-animal-feed grade hamburger patties from the US so that I could sell them here as gourmet burgers for premium prices. The quality of the beef really is that bad here, as is the process that somehow turns it into the rubbery, filler-laden non-edible Superball of Sadness that gets passed off for burgers here. That, along with Mexican food, is one of the main reasons I travel back to the states so frequently. Now, if we could only get English bacon shipped over to America, that might be reason enough to move back.
    - alanbyrne 13y ago
      I can't speak for the rest of England, but there are some amazing burgers in London. A good starting point: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-best-london-burgers-9171538.html http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-... 100% agree about Mexican food though!
      - corin_ 13y ago
        There's great Mexican food available in London too, maybe not quite like SoCal but still good

ashray 13y ago

It's quite unlikely that someone who orders a 1000 burgers is actually going to eat them. I can't picture myself eating 1000 of the same kind of burger .. or in the same place.. I guess most people would eat 200 burgers (I'd say at the high end..) which would come out to 5GBP per burger. Not bad for the establishment.. I can't think of any average but even 100 sounds high to me.

shasta 13y ago
Did you see the picture of the burger in the article? All this guy has to do is declare that remaining prepaid burgers are non-transferable upon death, and he'll only ever have to make a few hundred per buyer.
- cfontes 13y ago
  That is a good point to raise :D I had a micro heart attack just by looking at it.
- andrewmcdonough 13y ago
  Actually the burger in the picture is healthier than you'd think. It's very good quality beef. I have a balanced diet and exercise lots. I also subscribe to the 'fat is not the enemy' school of thought. Maybe I'll take some before and after photos to prove it!
  - asciimo 13y ago
    The quality of the beef isn't the point. http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-much-protein-could-lead-to-early-death-study-says/2014/03/04/0af0603e-a3b5-11e3-8466-d34c451760b9_story.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/too-mu...
    - andrewmcdonough 13y ago
      There has been much discussion on this piece of research, and issues raised about the reporting of it. I think the response from the NHS was balanced: http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/high-protein-diet-may-be-harmful-for-middle-aged.aspx http://www.nhs.uk/news/2014/03March/Pages/high-protein-diet-...
    - barry-cotter 13y ago
      That study is garbage. It doesn't distinguish between processed and unprocessed meat. It is best filed in the circular container on the floor.
  - caseysoftware 13y ago
    I'm coming to London for the first time in a decade this coming week. I'd love to have a burger with the guy who decided to do this. If you're interested, drop me a note: keith @ op3nvoice.com
sillysaurus3 13y ago
I just looked at the burger in question. Wow! I'd totally eat 1,000 of those. But I guess I should start caring about things like not having heart attacks, so I don't know. My heart says "yes" though.
- jasonkester 13y ago
  My advice would be to come to England and eat a hamburger here before committing to a thousand of them, regardless of how good they look in the picture. I sometimes daydream about importing the cheapest, far-end-of-the-freezer-aisle, just-barely-not-animal-feed grade hamburger patties from the US so that I could sell them here as gourmet burgers for premium prices. The quality of the beef really is that bad here, as is the process that somehow turns it into the rubbery, filler-laden non-edible Superball of Sadness that gets passed off for burgers here. That, along with Mexican food, is one of the main reasons I travel back to the states so frequently. Now, if we could only get English bacon shipped over to America, that might be reason enough to move back.
  - alanbyrne 13y ago
    I can't speak for the rest of England, but there are some amazing burgers in London. A good starting point: http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-best-london-burgers-9171538.html http://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/restaurants/burgeracs-20-... 100% agree about Mexican food though!
    - corin_ 13y ago
      There's great Mexican food available in London too, maybe not quite like SoCal but still good