Uncle Burger ceases business

With the ever-increasing costs of raw ingredients and other related utilities like gas and electricity ... I can no longer make a sustainable income selling my burgers at current street prices.

It is then with deep regret and sorrow, that I am shutting down the burger business with immediate effect.

Thank you all ... for the support, good times. I do not want to say that this will be a permanent thing - for with God's grace, I would be able to return in the future.

Never say never ... but until then - God bless y'all.

Hohoho ... heavy rain - not snow

Sigh ... looks like business is off tonight :-(


The incessant thunderstorms and ultra-heavy downpours in Ipoh - particularly in the evenings - has made Uncle Burger's operations pretty tough. Although the stall has its roof and awnings, such intense rainfall coupled with strong winds create havoc for cooking out in the open. Heck; even the coffeeshop just in front of the stall is having a hard time coping with the winds that carry huge amounts of rain right into its premises- what more for a lil' burger stall by the road ...


Experience tells me no one's gonna come around for burgers in driving rain, anyways. So see y'all tomorrow night ... hopefully in clear weather.

Live RSS Feed Into Facebook Page

Hello folks!
Yes, I know I have not been updating this blog for awhile now ... mostly due to my pre-occupation with Uncle Burger's Facebook Page. But this is about to change, with my discovery of a great Facebook App called RSS Graffiti.


What this app does, is that it grabs this blog's posts via its RSS feed, and posts an update of it right into Uncle Burger's Facebook Page.


What this means, is that I can now post news and updates into this blog, and Facebook users like you will be notified on your Wall almost instantaneously :-)


With this, I hope to resume blogging more here, without worrying that Facebook Fans of Uncle Burger will be left out of the latest news. Awesome ... I'll talk more with you folks soon!

Uncle Burger Attacked

Uncle Burger was stabbed by unknown assailants at approximately 11:00pm, March 16, 2010. Business temporarily closed until further notice.

Wassup ...

Hey, folks.

Sorry for the quiet since the New Year. Thanks for all that check into this blog every now and then for updates to what's been going on with Uncle Burger. Actually there has been quite a whirlwind of activity, but I'm usually too pooped after the day's (well night's) business ... am not much in the mood to blog anymore :-(

I recently "re-discovered" my Twitter account and its mobile Tweet service. Unless, suddenly there's something that totally excites me and that I absolutely need to write a 5,000-word post in this blog ... most of my updates will be short and and in Twitter.


So, hit the Tweeter window to the right of this page to follow me, yaa ...

Accident on eve of Christmas

Accident involving hands. Unable to open tonight; am so sorry folks.

Lord, I pray that I will recover enough to serve my brothers & sisters tomorrow, Christmas.

Rejoice, for the King our Savior is born

Merry Christmas, Bless All

Rain delays opening times (UPDATED)

Rainstorms have been rolling in smack on opening hour of 5pm everyday for the past 3 days. I can't open on time even if I wanted to ... Apologies, folks.

But I will open every evening - right after the rain dies down enough for me not to get soaked doing so. Usually 6pm onwards.

So, see you in a bit at Uncle Burger's!

Update 7:25pm
Still stuck at home with heavy rain :-( Still hoping rain will die down soon ...

The lull before the storm ...

 Well, 2x stocks did well on Thursday; am glad y'all got yer fix of Uncle Burger's :-) Was kinda strange to have none of you between 11pm to closing ... zip, nada. All of yous decided to come earlier on the night, eh? Hehehe ...

Came Friday ... and hoo, boy. Y'all sure ganged up on Uncle Burger and came in one huge party! For the information of the data and marketing fans (and for those who missed the "action"!):

• 2x stock was brought out on opening hour
• another 2x stock was replenished over a single hour
• eggs were sold 4x the average amount
• cheese were sold 2x the average amount
• overall 4x sales volume of previous 9pm~12midnight operating hours
• highest volume sold since re-opening @ 3 December 2009

Praise the Lord; thanks everyone!

See y'all Monday!

3-night roundup

Uncle Burger's new opening days & hours:

Mondays to Fridays, 5pm to 12 midnight

(Closed on Saturdays & Sundays)

Hey ... my bad for not updating the past 2 days. If only because ... you guys have been great!

I had never expected everyone to come in droves upon Uncle Burger's re-opening! I had "officially" (can't be "shop-icially", right) started new 5pm - 12am opening hours on Monday. Admittedly, I had not stocked up any more than usual cos ... well, I wasn't sure you guys would come around again that soon.

But boy, was I wrong.

I had sold out the "standard" stock levels by 8pm on Monday! Praise the Lord; thanks all!

So, I brought out 1.5x more on Tuesday ... and all was good :-) I managed to serve y'all till closing time. Alright, I said to myself - this stock level oughta be right.

But you guys once again proved me wrong ... for yesterday, Uncle Burger sold out the 1.5x stock levels by 10pm :-p Soooo ... for tonight (Thursday), I shall ramp up the level to 2x to get each and every one of you home with your burgers, alright?

Once again, peeps - from the bottom of my humble heart - thank you so much for returning to Uncle Burger's ... God bless y'all.

Uncle Burger's new opening days & hours:

Mondays to Fridays, 5pm to 12 midnight

(Closed on Saturdays & Sundays)

Finally!

I finally got to open last night - in my new kiosk :-)

And with great weather to boot - no rain! Well, not until closing time; it just showered a wee bit ... which lasted all of 5 minutes. Very, very rare at this time of the year; more so the past month or so. Thank you, Lord.

I didn't see you regulars, though. So hope to see you soon :-)