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The famed potato salad Kickstarter has pulled in more than $55,000, and some of the proceeds will help support people struggling with homelessness and hunger, campaign founder Zack Danger Brown posted on his site.
Ever since Brown’s modest fundraiser — which at first aimed to just raise $10 — went viral last month, critics across the web have been urging the founder to add a charitable component to his cause.
That “cause” initially aimed to collect a few bucks to enable Brown to buy the ingredients he needed to put a potato salad together.
Once funds started flooding in, Brown expanded his goal to throw a huge potato salad party in Columbus, Ohio, for all of his backers, now dubbed — PotatoStock 2014.
He also promised his supporters such perks as getting a themed T-shirt and receiving a “bite” of the side dish.
Brown seems to have also paid heed to those who urged him to try and find more meaningful ways to “spread humor and joy around the world.”
The campaign plans to contribute a “significant portion of the remaining money” to the Columbus Foundation, a group that assists individuals in dispensing donations. This particular initiative will create a fund to support Central Ohio’s nonprofits in their fight to end hunger and homelessness.
PotatoStock will also do its part.
All money made from selling concessions at the all-day event — which is scheduled for Sept. 27 — will be donated to the new fund.
“These types of funds gain interest every year and grow over time,” Brown wrote. “So, while our little Internet joke will one day be forgotten, the impact will be felt forever.”
Some day soon, a burger and fries will no longer be the quintessential American fast-food meal.
By 2020, the only burger joint in the top five fast-food restaurants in America by sales will be McDonald’s, predicted a note published Monday by analysts at Janney Capital Markets, a financial-services firm. Burger chains Wendy’s and Burger King, currently fourth and fifth in sales, will be knocked out of the top five by Dunkin’ Donuts and Chick-Fil-A, respectively. Meanwhile, so-called “fast casual” chains like Chipotle will move higher.
Check out the 2013 rankings and Janney’s 2020 predictions below:
Fast-food burgers are losing popularity for a few reasons. Many Americans, particularly those with higher incomes, are turning to more-upscale chains like Starbucks or Panera. They’re also looking for higher-quality food and favoring those chains, like Chipotle and Chick-Fil-A, that promise to deliver it.
“Americans’ tastes are evolving,” Mark Kalinowski, Janney’s lead restaurant analyst, told The Huffington Post, with customers hungrier for more “adventuresome” foods like the offerings at Chipotle or Taco Bell.
And the lower-income customer base for McDonald’s, and its burger-flipping rivals Wendy’s and Burger King, is still struggling, years after the recession, McDonald’s Chief Operating Officer Tim Fenton recently admitted.
All of this makes it tougher for burger chains like Wendy’s and Burger King to stand out. McDonald’s, on the other hand, will probably keep dominating the industry, largely because it has been such a huge presence for so long that its position can’t realistically change much any time soon, Kalinowski said.
And McDonald’s is trying to adjust to Americans’ changing appetites — for example, by trying to convince customers that it, too, makes quality food. Based on a recent Consumer Reports survey that found McDonald’s rated lowest among all fast-food restaurants on taste, that might be a tough sell.
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