Things Are Changing In The Quad Cities. Let’s Talk About It. (We are putting out a city guide called Look QC and it comes out on Saturday, April 29th. You can buy it for ten bucks at any Bummer City location: Armored Gardens, Devon’s Complaint Dept., Analog Arcade Bar, and Analog Pizza & Arcade.) I had a conversation with my friend…

No one wants to work anymore. That’s what I have repeatedly heard since the onset of Covid. It has become a rallying cry for the older generations to shake their fist at the Universe and blame our youth, the easiest of easy targets. But there are select number of companies…

The Agony Of The Menu Change I hate changing the menu. Menu changes keep me up at night. Seriously. But I’m also obsessed with getting stuff right and figuring out what the best version of ourselves looks like. Our industry is changing fast and if you don’t work to keep…

Let’s Have Fun Before The World Ends: A Bummer City Newsletter I went to see a band called Turnstile in Chicago back in October. They played to 5,000 people. I saw them in October of last year, in a smaller venue that only held 1,200 people. Turnstile was formed in Baltimore in 2010. So that means it took them eleven years to get 1,200 people to see them play, and just one more year to 4x their crowd size into 5,000.

Or, How To Catch A Hawk. I chatted up a guy at a bar who taught me how to become a falconer. I’m not sure if this is really how it works, but it created an analogy for me so I guess that’s pretty cool. To be a falconer…

Let’s Have Fun Before The World Ends: A Bummer City Newsletter (Issue #2) I love the 1971 film Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory. Everything about it is perfect, except for the last line of the movie. The last line is dead wrong. The flying elevator blasts through the skylight…

Issue #1: Live The Dream and Making Contact With Aliens Hey, it’s Dan. We are switching up our newsletter from sexy pics of burgers to something more direct. We are going to tell you what’s happening on our end because we have A LOT in the hopper. …