In February of this year, Five Guys Burgers celebrated their 40th year anniversary by offering customers a buy-one-get-one promotion.

However, the promotion far exceeded their expectations as folks flooded their apps and stores to take advantage of the deal. Because of the problems customers had in taking advantage of the deal, Five Guys then issued an apology:

They then hosted a second promotion dubbed the “After Party” which went off without any problems.

While all of that churn over their two promotions generated some nice publicity for Five Guys, it wasn’t until their CEO Jerry Murrell said something in an interview that got them some really big publicity. Five Guys gave their store managers a bonus for managing the two promotions as best they could. When Jerry explained why they had given their managers the bonus, he observed that he “didn’t want to get shot in the back.” Jerry and that quote became even bigger news (click here.) Proof again of the old news adage “If it bleeds, it leads.”

I thought it was a great line and give Jerry a lot of credit for how he and Five Guys handled a very messy situation. Makes me want to swing by and pick up a burger from them.

But speaking of Five Guys who have been around for a number of years, check out this photo that Pat Guy passed along to me. That is Pat in the middle with 4 of his five brothers. His 5th brother David resides in Nebraska. (Note that I have discussed this photo in a previous Buzzyblog post (click here.))

Photo was taken at Bernie and his wife Linda Ann’s home in Hedgesville, West Virginia. Linda Ann passed in May 2025. To read her obit (click here.)

Since it is a Twofer Tuesday, check out two tunes here, the first of which is an instrumental titled ironically enough “So Much to Say.”

This second tune from DMB always reminds of a young fella in Buzzy’s paying for his purchase as Dave on the radio repeatedly sang the refrain (1:47) “So much to say.” I had the volume turned up a little and as I handed the fella his change he said “Hey Dave, give us a break why don’t you? If you got so much to say, just say it man.” I laughed at his comment and didn’t really know what to say back to him other than “You’re right!”