The Vitals: the burger: double cheeseburger with bacon, lettuce, tomato, onion, pickle and mayonnaise the bucks: $6.30 the coordinates: Los Angeles, CA
Recently a friend told me that if you do one thing for six years, you will become an expert at doing that thing. Bill Elwell has been making burgers for 50 years. That would make him an expert at cooking burgers eight times over. Do enough digging on the internet about Bill's Hamburgers and you will find that the legend of his burgers are in fact superseded by the legend of the man himself. His salty demeanor, his five marriages, really his age alone allows the Bill's Hamburgers experience to live up to the hype before you even take your first bite. Oh, and wait you will for that first bite. And we, the loyalists and devotees to Bill's Hamburgers, are happy to do so. We gladly wait for one of seven stools to open up so we can wait some more to catch the attention of the person taking orders, so we can really settle in and wait and wait, till Bill Elwell makes us a perfect burger. The burgers are always perfect because of that wait. It's a pace that has been 50 years in the making and it is exactly what makes Bill's Hamburgers a temple for Bang for your Burger Buck.
(more…)The Vitals: the burger: "the blue chip" - a double cheeseburger served up club style with three bun slices, american cheese, house made special sauce, mayonnaise, shredded lettuce, sliced onion and tomato the other burger: 4 oz chargrilled patty with avocado, bacon, shredded lettuce, pickle and house made thousand island the bucks: $3.92, $6.54 respectively the coordinates: Los Angeles, CA
Maybe you have heard of Blue Chip Stocks. If you haven't, allow me to give you a quick wiki economics 101: Blue Chip stocks represent the companies that are considered to be the most dependable and steadily profitable, they are the ones that keep the ship steady in good times and not so good times. They become the indicators of how the market itself is performing. If they go down, then the whole system is in serious trouble. These companies are often followed as a group, which is called the Dow Jones Industrial Average. If ever there was a burger joint that deserved to be on the Dow Jones Index, well how appropriate that the burger joint should happened to be named "Pete's Blue Chip."
