The Department of Labor fined the Big Texan $800,000 for illegally retaining a portion of workers' tips to pay for business expenses including contest prizes.
Business Week has an article about Nathan's Famous claiming that sales in stadiums, movie theaters, and non-Nathan’s restaurants have offset a decline in purchase at supermarkets and company owned restaurants.
The T-shirt for Ribfest Chicago's eating contest lists the top contenders.
Val "Valkyrie" Bromann is selling T-shirts about competing in the Nathan's women's finals. She will be competing in Saturday's Chicagoland qualifier despite having already obtained a spot in Coney Island.
Ben Paschal has a list of five business lessons he has acquired from his competitive eating career in Entrepreneur.com.
(semi off-topic) The New York Times has an article on General Mills' desire to void the right to take legal action against the cereal manufacturer for people who download coupons, like the company's Facebook page or participate in its contests. (via @binarybits)
Ryan McKillop made a quilt from his eating contest and challenge T-shirts.
Former MLE employee Ryan Nerz, author of Eat This Book and MarijuanAmerica, has been named chief cannabis correspondent for Fusion and will host "The Cannabusiness Report" on the new cable channel owned by ABC and Univision. (Ryan Nerz and Jason Fagone continue to share a topic despite moving on from competitive eating; the author of Horsemen of the Esophagus has written articles about marijuana for Grantland.com and The New Republic.)
(Semi off-topic) Pricenomics.com has an article about the ascent and decline of earnings for professional bowlers on the PBA tour: "Harry Smith, the top bowler in 1963, made more money than MLB MVP Sandy Koufax and NFL MVP Y.A. Tittle combined". (via Deadspin Stacks)
Bloomberg has an article about how rising meat prices are forcing Jamie McDonald to raise menu prices at his restaurant, Bear's Smokehouse, by 10%.
Daily Greens produced a commercial about a vegetable eating contest to promote its cold-pressed green juice.
Brand Republic lists Joey Chestnut as a Pizza Hut "superfan" due to his victory in the Chow-lenge eating contest in 2010.
Wildcat Belts announces it has finished the champion belts for the next two Nathan's finals.
Courant has an article about Jamie McDonald competing in Go Daddy's The Big Leap Contest. The winner will receive 6 months salary and marketing assistance and exposure from Go Daddy. Jamie McDonald pitched his idea while riding in a race car with Danica Patrick and plans to open a second Hartford location for his restaurant regardless of the contest results.
The Big Eaters Club is soliciting questions for an upcoming Q & A video and will award a T-shirt to the question they think is the best.
Don Lerman is selling a set of his false teeth for $500. One of the dentures for sale was used recording Eats of Strength.
Home Depot has an inflatable consisting of a polar bear, penguin and snowman participating in a gingerbread man eating contest available for sale. (via slickdeals)
Bob Shoudt is selling Nathan's memorabilia autographed by Joey Chestnut. Bidding closes tomorrow at 10 pm eastern.
Yahoo! Finance has a blog entry about Nathan's Famous suggesting that a drop in earnings to 57 cents / share from 62 cents / share could be a harbinger of bad news for the economy in general.
eBay has several autographed pictures of Takeru Kobayashi for sale (most taken at Monday's Chompionship in Toronto). The minimum bid for a picture is $34.95 and the buy it now price is $54.95. Bidding ends November 5.
For Entreprenuer Magazine, Freakonomics co-author Stephen Dubner offers 3 lessons in problem solving that can be drawn from Takeru Kobayashi's record breaking perfromance at the 2001 Nathan's finals.
Eric Dahl career earnings
The Associated Press carried an article about Eric “Silo” Dahl which was picked up by Time, The Daily Mail and the Huffington Post. A total of over $18,000 (in cash and prizes) is given as Eric Dahl’s career competitive eating earnings. According to the eatfeats database Dahl’s career cash earnings are $13,900 (listed after jump) He also won $1,000 in an unlisted pizza challenge with Molly Schuyler. Read the rest of this entry »
CBS' Tailgate Fan blog claims that MLE desires a monopoly over competitive eating and says the organization "does not seem to want you to have any food-related fun outside of its sponsored events".
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