Warren Buffett Orders Dairy Queen at The Four Seasons Because That’s How Billionaires Roll

[KamaAina]

https://www.yahoo.com/food/warren-buffett-orders-dairy-queen-at-the-four-seasons-83820529072.html

If you’re Warren Buffett, and your net worth is a cool $65.2 billion, you go to The Four Seasons in New York City and demand Cherry Coke and Dairy Queen.

Buffett eschewed the $150 Wagyu steak with maitake mushrooms in favor of a hamburger, Page Six reports, and “a Cherry Coke to wash it down. Handily, Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has a large stake in Coca-Cola.” This stumped jovial Four Seasons co-owner Julian Niccolini, who told the Post, “We don’t carry that kind of stuff, so I sent out people to CVS to buy it.” ...

Buffett’s next move, though, makes one think that when one is a millionaire, one can truly ask for the moon: He ordered Dairy Queen (another chain he’s invested in) for dessert. In many parts of the country, this might have been an easy enough wish to grant. But the isle of Manhattan contains zero Dairy Queens.

Moon, denied. “Buffett settled for chocolate chip cookies,” reports Page Six. Apparently he’s a notoriously un-fancy diner, once telling CNBC that “if somebody told me that I live a year longer by eating nothing but broccoli and asparagus from now on, I would just say…I’ll stick with the Cheetos and the Coke.” (Cheetos are really, really good, so we get it.)

[Cooley Hurd]

1. Warren should be a role model for the 1%...

...but they're too self absorbed to notice.

[elleng]

2. Exactly.

[PoliticAverse]

17. He is, that's the problem...

See... http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-19/buffett-graham-swap-is-latest-deal-to-limit-u-s-tax-take.html

[JI7]

3. doesn't he own the dairy queen and he bought it because he always liked the food ?

[LibertyLover]

4. That would be nice to know -

we don't have a Dairy Queen convenient to where I live, although there may be one in the mall about 10 miles away, but for road trips, if Mr. Buffett did own the company I wouldn't mind patronizing them for a meal or two.

[JI7]

6. i looked it up, i don't think he owns it but does invest in it

i think he did an interview once and he stopped by a dairy queen to get something to eat.

[joeglow3]

10. I can say with certainity he owns it

I used to work on the Berkshire audit.

[KamaAina]

7. They mentioned that

He ordered Dairy Queen (another chain he’s invested in) for dessert.

[Gothmog]

19. Berkshire Hathway owns Dairy Queen

Buffett is a very nice man in person and has a great sense of humor. One of my clients sold their business to him and I met him at the closing dinner

[brooklynite]

5. What about the cotton candy?

Serious - it's served at the end of every meal at the Four Seasons.

[nykym]

8. I read long ago about John Pual Getty Sr.

Having friends over for dinner.
Desert for the guests was strawberry rhubarb pie, both grown in his own garden.
Mr Getty had ice cream, vanilla if memory serves me.

[Journeyman]

15. Jean Paul Getty Jr., reputedly the richest man in the world when he died in '76, had payphones . . .

installed in his home for the use of his guests.

Getty placed dial-locks on all the regular telephones, limiting their use to authorised staff, and the coin-box telephone was installed for others. When speaking in a televised interview with Alan Whicker in February 1963, Getty said that he thought guests would want to use a payphone.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._Paul_Getty

[Xipe Totec]

9. Rosebud.... Rosebud... nt

[Jenoch]

11. I think he lives in the same two bedroom house in Omaha that he has lived in for about 60 years.

[former9thward]

12. So a billionaire gets to have a bunch of workers run around Manhattan to serve his every desire.

How special!

[dilby]

18. They are paid by the hour, when I was in college I worked for Marriott and would

have loved to run around Manhattan all day to serve his every desire. I would get paid and get out of doing some of the serious work I had to do.

[former9thward]

20. You don't know who went to get the stuff

and you don't know how they were paid. Quit pretending.

[dilby]

21. Neither do you.

But I would assume it's either someone who works at the hotel or directly for him. Someone whose job is to serve others.

[Skittles]

13. I've eaten many a fancy meal that could be bested by a Dairy Queen dinner

that is no joke

[Aerows]

14. No kidding

I'd settle for their steak finger basket over one that was burned the heck up (pretty much anything north of rare), mushy vegetables and a baked potato that wasn't done. It was expensive, and I left there hungry. I really hate it when people decide that how you order your steak isn't really the way you want it. I didn't make a stink about it because it was a family meal, but I can tell you this much - I didn't go back there ever again, and the restaurant closed about six months later.

[UTUSN]

16. Billionaires are just like us: for example, *I*would order something I could NOTafford (="anything")

at 4Seasons to act like I belonged there, attempting to avoid embarrassment, knowing that the wait staff and everybody else would just KNOW I didn't belong there, therefore being totally embarrassed.

[dembotoz]

22. and because he asked for it we all are giving dq a bunch of good pr

he is a bright man
advertise for free

guess it is part of how he got so rich

[Brickbat]

23. Who DOESN'T order off the menu to watch people run?

[dickthegrouch]

24. HBO's Silicon Valley is growing on me

Simply because it posits how some of the more interesting decisions get made in The Valley. I wasn't too keen after the first episode and even the second was iffy. I persevered and the third episode is warming to the theme. I can absolutely imagine those things happening to the lucky few.

I imagine Warren Buffett having exactly the kinds of meetings the VC from Silicon Valley, Peter Gregory, is involved in.