How a $2.55 slider became NYC’s most popular burger overnight
NY Post
Finding a delicious burger this cheap is certainly rare.
A Brooklyn grocery store and cafe has become an overnight sensation for their scrumptious sliders — which sell for a shocking, budget-friendly $2.55.
Jubilee Marketplace’s 20 Gram Café, a k a Greenpoint’s 20 Grams, only began flipping their not-so-advertised, talk-of-the-town treats, which are about double the size of a White Castle slider, at the end of January.
But one recent week, the store’s 20-seat restaurant was selling up to 1,300 burgers a day — and ran out over the weekend from high demand.
“It’s positive insanity,” executive chef and culinary director Samantha La Manna, 30, told The Post, adding that people are ordering a dozen at a time, which cost $30.
“It’s such a nice prize as a creator to give somebody a product and they’re like, ‘Holy s – – t, this is amazing,’ ” she said of the bountiful burgers, which are available daily from noon to 9 p.m.
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