Link Roundup
Give me your burgers! Arrrrrgh! Tommi Tómasson is the burger baron of Iceland and has "made and lost two fortunes flipping burgers in Reykjavík." He currently owns Hamborgara Tómasar in the country's capital. "We have had many celebrities come, even our President Ólafur Ragnar Grímsson and his wife Dorrit have come," Tómasar said. "Also Björk [right]. But mostly Tommi’s Burger Joint is a classless place where everyone can come and feel that he or she belongs."
Pacific Northwest's Burgerville chain wins Food Network's "Better Burger" award: "The network selected Burgerville because of its use of high-quality, local, seasonable ingredients and its commitment to sustainability as demonstrated by its use of wind power as an energy source for all its restaurants."
Up, up, down, down, left, right, left, right: "McDonald’s best-kept secret may be that it offers free Wi-Fi with every meal.... Gamers using Nintendo DS systems currently account for 25% of the Wi-Fi traffic in its restaurants."
"White Castle is inferior." So says Beverly Scott, who is among 20 people inducted into the Krystal Lovers Hall of Fame this year. I think her story, recounted here, is weak, but Krystal probably liked her stance on Whitey's. An even better story is the hall of famer who routinely flies 150 miles ten times a year to pick up a couple dozen Krystals.
Former Baltimore Raven Orlando Brown tackles the burger biz: "Mr. Brown plans to open 10 Fatburger hamburger stores in the D.C. area over the next six years, with the first planned for Route 1 in College Park, late this summer."
