Hamburger helpless

The following were among eighty-seven losing submissions in an essay contest sponsored by Tom and Patti Brandt, former owners of Sno-White Drive-In, a fifties-style hamburger stand in Antioch, California. The Brandts offered full ownership of the restaurant to the best essayist; entries were confined to a hundred words or less and submitted with a $100 application fee.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because I love burgers — cooking them, wrapping them, selling them, etc. Once I had a strange dream about a never-ending line of oversized buns coming toward me, all dripping with extra mayonnaise.

My wife and daughter feel the same way.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because as a kid growing up in a small town one of the few joys we had was riding our bikes down to Sno-White Drive-In and going to the beach. With this business I would be able to have a small part of my childhood as well as build a future for my three kids. Sorry I couldn't think of anything funny, but this came from the hart. Thank you.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because my family and I have been striving to open a family-style '50s food establishment for . . . I would say for ever . . . 11 yrs plus years.

When my son saw this my son woke me up screaming, "Mom wake up you can have this drive-in for only one dollar." I said, "Honey you must be mistaking." He insisted I call over and asked about it, and here I sit writing this essay with hope of big dreams all thanks to my son's little eyes. PICK US WE ARE THE REAL DEAL!!!!!!!!!

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because when a man hits the mile marker of forty years of age he begins to ponder his mortality. The hair is gone, the shoes long since vanished beneath the ever growing belly, in short, where the heck has his youth gone? There it is, in his eleven-year-old son in Brentwood! He can build a legacy, teaching his son the importance of owning his own business so he can whistle while he works for himself and the IRS. Jiminey Crickets!

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because it all started in Budapest, as many great sagas have. Actually, it all started in downtown Antioch, but I've always wanted to start an essay like that. Due to my previous experience with community relations and my dream to continue that in business, there is no greater satisfaction than knowing that I have put those smiles on those faces. The only way to remove those enormous smiles would be through plastic surgery! Everyone in the community will continue to benefit under my ownership.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because I have the ambition to successfully operate this establishment. Looking back, I was considered a "loser." Everyone thought my life was heading in the wrong direction. I had always dreamed of becoming a chef.

With Jack Tripper as my role model, I enrolled in Culinary School. It changed my life.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because "Sno-White" the name invokes fun, fantasy, the innocence of childhood, Disneyland.

Speaking of fantasies, it has always been a childhood fantasy of mine to own a restaurant. Playing cook and waitress was one of my favorite games as a child. When I was in sixth grade I went to my grandmother's house to borrow flour, sugar, eggs, and milk, go back to my own house, make doughnuts, and then go back to my grandmother's house to sell her the doughnuts I just made. As an adult, the saying "the way to a man's heart is through his stomach" has been my mantra.

I need to express my inner feelings, my art, the beauty of my soul through food and service to others. I need a restaurant like the Sno-White Drive-In.

I want to own Sno-White Drive-In because forty years ago, I stopped at an A&W Rootbeer Drive-In. Seeing those beautiful carhops, I was hooked. I married three in a twelve-year period. Now I have three beautiful granddaughters who want me to put them into a Sno-White kind of drive-in. My girls are so cute, the boys will drule over their burgers. My beautiful granddaughters want to put a smile on their customers' faces like McDonald's does.

Please help me.

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