I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them? • Hacker News Board

patio11 wrote: post #5

That's a genius use of that offering. Great instant story. 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 c…

yes but check it--the other part of the offer is that you must order two at a time. so, assuming you're not going to chow down two burgers on your own, you'll be introducing a new potential customer every time.

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by wcummings » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 1:35 PM UTC

Mark Karpeles used all the BTC on cheeseburgers [1] #bitcoinconspiracy

[1] http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091104170948/trailerpar...

Re: I just bought 1000 burgers on Kickstarter. Want one of them?

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Post by ashray » Sat, Mar 15, 2014, 1:36 PM UTC

venomsnake wrote: post #9

patio11 wrote: post #5

That's a genius use of that offering. Great instant story. 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 c…

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…

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.