The World’s Largest Menu


How large is it though?  Just looking at the different ways to choose up to four toppings, I count over 30,o00 different possibilities.  I challenge anyone to find a menu with over 30,000 dishes on it.

Edit: In a sad attempt to avoid writing an essay, I did the math on how many unique hamburgers there are.  I did not limit the cheeses, toppings, or sauces, so this includes a burger with 12 different kinds of cheese, 30 toppings, and 21 different sauces.  Let me say, there are a lot of possibilities.

To get an idea of just how many possibilities there are, if everyone on the planet ate three hamburgers every day, it would take over two hundred million years to exhaust all the options.

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3 Responses to The World’s Largest Menu

  1. Jason Buell says:

    Just ate at the Counter couple weeks ago and had the same thought. Of course, I’m a veg so my possibilities have been reduced.

    • samjshah says:

      I used to go to The Counter a lot in LA, and I think there were only 2 locations. Now there are a lot, and I’m so happy. I’m a veg too, but I loved it.

      Of course, then I wasn’t a math teacher, so I didn’t think about that sort of stuff. :)

      Sam

  2. Elizabeth says:

    Yikes. That’s a lot of possibilities.

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