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Quick peek at 500°
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Quick peek at 500°
When there's less than a week left before opening, restaurants tend to enter what we like to call "hyper scramble mode" — this is the time when ordinary men and women can achieve extraordinary feats of speed and strength to work out all the kinds before a grand debut. 500° (1504 Sansom St.), the quick-serve burger joint from Rouge owners Rob and Maggie Wasserman, is deep in hyper scramble, as evidenced by the flurry of hardcore activity going on inside earlier this morning.
500°, which will open Tuesday with free burgers for the first 100 heads who come through, is not huge — 23 total seats, some counter stools, some at a pair of communal table. The slate you see in the first image above is a prototype of what the walls will look like next week — paint man Jason Marzano is in color-splotch mode now, then he'll cover all of that up with a coat of white before applying a treatment that'll create a weathered industrial finish. (This space, on the corner of 15th and Sansom, was President Obama's local campaign quarters in '08.)
Check out the menu here — Rouge chef Matthew Zagorski is relying on the same beef blend and Wild Flour roll used for the Rittenhouse Square spot's famed burger. The first-100 promo is not the only launch special they'll do Tuesday, either. After that group's showed up to claim their eats, they'll offer a buy-one get-one burger deal if you bring a friend (that'll run till 3 p.m.). After that, free fries with a purchase.
Though the burgers are cooked to order, turnaround will be fast, says Rob — a student of the crank-'em-out griddle ballet perfected by the big burger boys, he hopes you'll be able to go from placing your order to food in your hands in roughly one minute.
[...] After the first hundo claim their reward, burgers will be buy-one-get-one for a friend until 3 p.m. After that, free fries with purchase. Check out the full menu here, and take a look at the space in progress here. [...]
[...] 500 on the 1500 block of Sansom (next to Roy’s). The first 100 people, starting at 11am, get a free burger. After that it’s buy-one-get-one until 3pm. Rouge serves up a damn good burger, so I expect [...]
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