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I spent much time thinking a new investment idea. I’ve been at least 4 years working for a IT Company related to health care sector, and although I like my job, what I do everyday, I always miss a job more altruistic. I don’t know, maybe I’m longing to do something that fill me as a useful person, making happier to the people, in summary, to be a bohemian. My great fault is to make people happy, I like to help people.

So, I’ve long time thinking about this. I tried to find what could make me happy, which I could combine with my interests and I had to start to learn from scratch.

Since my last travel to USA, american burgers caught my attention. In Spain, fast food as Macdonals or Burguer King are frowned, beacuse luckily, where I live, Andalusia (a region in the south of Spain) is distinguished by healthy and good food. It’s well-know the Mediterranean diet: vegeteables, fruits, olive oil (that reduce coresterol blood), blue fish (rich in Omega-3 fatty acid); all of this prevent you, for example, of coronary heart disease. But, one of the facts I couldn’t understand from USA is why if they have, in my opinion, one of the best agriculture system, their vegeteables and fruits are very good ( and yes, maybe half of them are from Mexico ), they are not able to follow a similar Mediterranean diet?

Well, returning to the previous topic, burguers caught my attention because when I ate a burger, they were so different from those of Spain: the taste, the quality of toppings and meat, more variety… You can choose everything, from bread to kind of cheese.

But, this kind of business is not really expanded in Spain. If you what to eat a really good american burger you can go to Foster’s Hollywood, and there, you could find something that almost looks like to an american burger. What it’s really impressive of America is if you want to eat a really good burger, you must go the simplest bar or restaurant recommended by people those live in the city you are visiting. Maybe a guide could help you in the election. I always will remember the burger I ate in Grateful Bread Bakery, near to Kiwanda, OR. It was glorious.

Well, returning to my project idea, I’ve been thinking about time to take a break, and start a new project, something I’d like to do with somebody that had same interest and inquietude, and by the way, something that makes me feel better, more relaxed and pleased myself. This is gonna be a little crazy, but I’d like to open a mobile restaurant, specialized in the finest burgers, like American Style, placed near to workplaces, or in summer, near beaches.

The main idea is to keep a simple menu: 6 kind of burgers, 2 kind of fries (long and “bravas”), 3 kind of salads (greek, green and caesar). Burger will change every month, trying to innovate tasting different toppings and ingredients, looking for new and great flavours.

This crazy idea reminded me of the seventh episode of Happy Endings, where Dave fears he’s a little zombie-like in his complacency at his boring job, and shocks everyone when he announces he’s quitting to follow his dream and open a restaurant. Well, I don’t know how this will evolve, but I think It’s a different way to make a new cuisine, ultimately, try to convert fast food in something more healthy.