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Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016
Well according to the Toronto Star-Ledger the pizza sucks. What an epic meme!

Bro Dad posted:

an app that sucks, crust so tough its crazy

thats why they call it the garfuccino, baby

Why did someone do this? garfucc if ino

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amusinginquiry
Nov 8, 2009

College Slice

bvj191jgl7bBsqF5m posted:

It's a rabbit hole into capitalist insanity. And it's totally real.

https://www.instagram.com/nathenmazri/ This guy is the CEO or whatever.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtGtFfFhLQk/

https://www.instagram.com/p/BruOCcdB72L/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

So I tried figuring out where the gently caress the money for this came from. The answer is an amazing failson story. Nathen Mazri's dad is an investment banker called Hayssam El-Masri. He manages multi-billion projects that look like this.



Masri senior also runs a capital firm focused on the food and beverage industry, and a company that manages Canadian food franchises in the Gulf states. Nathen Mazri used to work for his dad's company, along with his brother Mohamed. He also ran a marketing company in Saudi Arabia, sponsored by fellow failson Shiekh Fahad Abunayyan. Here's Nathen giving a very confusing presentation to Saudi prince Mohammed bin Saud Al Kabeer.

But Nathen is not just a businessman, he's a Renaissance Man. In true failson fashion, he's also a UCB graduate, a failed director and actor, and an author published under a vanity label. This is the sole production of Mazri Pictures.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRvo9kpZLX8

His "self-help memoir" is something else.



MAZRI'S 10 LAWS TO CONVERT FROM Feeling species into Thinking species

Nathen Mazri has become like a prisoner for injustice, like a soldier fighting for his life, and like a survivor thriving out of the kingdom for his freedom. All Nathen wanted was to feel alive.

Nathen, a young Arab-Canadian man is leaving Laval in the French province of Quebec with his family to settle in a soon to be discovered a tyrannical kingdom of Arabia in the middle of the desert sinking his soul in monotony, an unspoken epidemic, and defeated by suppression for over 12 years of his life lingering with broken dreams, Scoliosis, sexual identity crisis, bipolar disease, and the struggle to claim true elusive love.

So Garfield Eats is either being bankrolled by his oil investor dad, or is being funded directly by some other Gulf failson with his own index fund. Meanwhile his Chad brother Mohamed still works directly for his dad, while creating his own oil-based crypto which the Saudis are probably going to use to fund terrorism or something.

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

Nathen did an incredible interview with The Globe and Mail, which explains why the gently caress he chose Garfield. The whole interview is insanity.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-entrepreneur-behind-garfieldeats-wants-to-disrupt-fast-food/

quote:

Goupons – like the company Groupon, or Garfield-branded coupons?

Like “coupon,” but I just used G because of Garfield. I’m all branded. How did I connect to Garfield? It’s really destiny. My mother used to bring me Garfield comic books. She used to hide them behind her back, and whenever I’d get an A or A+ – maybe a B+ – she used to come and surprise me with them. My first language was French, so I learned English with comic books.

And there’s relevance – Garfield does eat pizza, lasagna, coffee, spaghetti. It makes perfect sense. I’ve done my research in order to infuse the same brand values with it. So it’s not Garfield “themed” – it is created with the intention of building a GarfieldEATS empire or chain.

... It took me about a year to [perfect the recipes with a chef in London]. We hopefully will be known for our GarfieldEATS “secret sauce.” It is orange-y. So orangey. No artificial colours. No preservatives. Tomatoes, when you blend them, they become orangey.

quote:

A lot of these plans deal with popular tech buzzwords. If people see them together and wonder how realistic that is, what is your response?

Come check it out. I haven’t even started. Look at our boxes – our pizza boxes all have perforated lines, so that our pizza boxes become pizza plates. We call it our “re-box” program. Our lasagna boxes become tissue boxes – the top part is perforated like a Kleenex box. I haven’t even started. We want to enter into robotic kitchens. We want to be able to do mass production. We want to invest in artificial intelligence.

This is the mysterious other guy on the website, who is probably scamming him.

quote:

You list Pascal Haider of Austria on your website as a partner – is he your only investor?

We both finance it, but he’s my co-founding partner. We’re equal. [Reached by phone, Mr. Haider confirmed the two were the company’s main investors, but declined to say how much each has invested.] He came with me, and met with Jim Davis, and I just feel – everyone asks me if I’m excited. I’m actually nervous because I feel a huge responsibility for this cartoon. And if I screw it up, I feel like it could be jeopardy for the entire business, the entire legendary ecosystem of Garfield and the 400 licensees of Jim Davis. So I have a huge responsibility: the pizza must be delicious. And you know that our pizzas are Garfield shaped?

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

COMPAGNIE TOMMY posted:

Well according to the Toronto Star-Ledger the pizza sucks. What an epic meme!

If the Toronto Star-Ledger had said it was really good pizza, then it would be a good meme?

Mr Luxury Yacht
Apr 16, 2012




I actually passed by it last night but it was late and closing soon so I didn't get a chance to order anything.

I might be back in the area today. If so I'll at least try and grab a Garfaccino.

olylifter
Sep 13, 2007

I'm bad with money and you have an avatar!

the orange "tomato sauce" is my favorite part of these. That and the person's description of it smelling like the garbage can in a butcher shop.

That place has to just be loving setting money on fire to stay there. A storefront at Bloor and Ossington's got to be expensive, and there's no way in hell they're making enough to even keep the lights turned on based on the product they're turning out. Even with a dispensary close by.

Alien Sex Manual
Dec 14, 2010

is not a sandwich

goodog posted:

His "self-help memoir" is something else.



Left side looks like Hard Rock Nick’s fursona lmao

amusinginquiry
Nov 8, 2009

College Slice
Nathen elicits an existential dread in me that those parody eldritch horror garfield comics never could

Mordja
Apr 26, 2014

Hell Gem

goodog posted:

Nathen did an incredible interview with The Globe and Mail, which explains why the gently caress he chose Garfield. The whole interview is insanity.

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/article-canadian-entrepreneur-behind-garfieldeats-wants-to-disrupt-fast-food/



This is the mysterious other guy on the website, who is probably scamming him.

Yeah, this dude definitely seems stable.

EL BROMANCE
Jun 10, 2006

COWABUNGA DUDES!
🥷🐢😬



So based on Goodog’s post, GarfieldEats is essentially Platform Masters if Uli’s bank account had lots of 0s in it rather than just one.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Mordja posted:

Yeah, this dude definitely seems stable.

I like that the lasagna boxes become tissue boxes.
At first, I thought, of course he's so deranged or out of touch with what he's doing that "...no, used greasy take out boxes might not make the best tissue boxes", let alone why anyone would want a tissue box because..what?
But then I thought, maybe if you're a real over-eater, like Garfield, maybe you feel bad about that, and maybe you cry a little after you eat a whole box of takeout lasagna from a place with a cartoon cat as a mascot, and some tissues might comfort you. And that's just a nice thing to do.

Harold Stassen
Jan 24, 2016

goodog posted:

So I tried figuring out where the gently caress the money for this came from. The answer is an amazing failson story. Nathen Mazri's dad is an investment banker called Hayssam El-Masri. He manages multi-billion projects that look like this.



Garfield Insaat

Big Butt Skinner
Apr 16, 2005

Blueprints of the dummy...
Notarized photos of you making the dummy...
And an alternate wording for the banner: "Buttzilla."
I really want to try this place.

bigfatdynamo
May 10, 2016

When I'm dead, just throw me in the trash.
The website makes me feel like I’ve got carbon monoxide poisoning. goodog and I called the number on the website last night at like 10pm Australian time and a man answered, said something in an arabic language, then I got nervous and hung up. 10/10

Ritznit
Dec 19, 2012

I'm crackers for cheese.

Ultra Carp

Mr Luxury Yacht posted:



I actually passed by it last night but it was late and closing soon so I didn't get a chance to order anything.

I might be back in the area today. If so I'll at least try and grab a Garfaccino.

Please report back and help us find out if the food is really as gross as they say!

Schneider Inside Her
Aug 6, 2009

Please bitches. If nothing else I am a gentleman

Big Beef City posted:

I like that the lasagna boxes become tissue boxes.
At first, I thought, of course he's so deranged or out of touch with what he's doing that "...no, used greasy take out boxes might not make the best tissue boxes", let alone why anyone would want a tissue box because..what?
But then I thought, maybe if you're a real over-eater, like Garfield, maybe you feel bad about that, and maybe you cry a little after you eat a whole box of takeout lasagna from a place with a cartoon cat as a mascot, and some tissues might comfort you. And that's just a nice thing to do.

You would have to take the tissues out of the box they already cane in

Fojar38
Sep 2, 2011


Sorry I meant to say I hope that the police use maximum force and kill or maim a bunch of innocent people, thus paving a way for a proletarian uprising and socialist utopia


also here's a stupid take
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lol those loving prices are highway robbery

as much as i would like to try the garfield-themed pizza and lasagna propped up by saudi blood money there is no way i am forking 30 bucks over for a tiny pizza and a hunk of lasagna

Weka
May 5, 2019
Probation
Can't post for 15 hours!

Fojar38 posted:

lol those loving prices are highway robbery

as much as i would like to try the garfield-themed pizza and lasagna propped up by saudi blood money there is no way i am forking 30 bucks over for a tiny pizza and a hunk of lasagna

Information superhighway robbery bud.

Cubone
May 26, 2011

Because it never leaves its bedroom, no one has ever seen this poster's real face.

goodog posted:

he's also a UCB graduate
okay, this is important
University of California, Berkeley
or
Upright Citizen's Brigade?

I would be so, so disappointed in UCB if it was the latter

Fur20
Nov 14, 2007

すご▞い!
君は働か░い
フ▙▓ズなんだね!

Cubone posted:

okay, this is important
University of California, Berkeley
or
Upright Citizen's Brigade?

ultimate cum bitch

goodog
Nov 3, 2007

Cubone posted:

okay, this is important
University of California, Berkeley
or
Upright Citizen's Brigade?

I would be so, so disappointed in UCB if it was the latter

The latter, but it doesn't say how far he made it through their program. He's exactly the kind of rich idiot who was fuelling the UCB improv bubble/pyramid scheme.

lllllllllllllllllll
Feb 28, 2010

Now the scene's lighting is perfect!
Lasagna's the worst takeaway thing ever as it takes ages to cool anyway

Pastry of the Year
Apr 12, 2013

I feel like a media outlet other than The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Garfield Eats App needs to dig into/break the story of Nathen Mazri being an absolutely insane man because I am certain there's way way more going on beneath the surface here

Ema Nymton
Apr 26, 2008

the place where I come from
is a small town
Buglord

Pastry of the Year posted:

I feel like a media outlet other than The Something Awful Forums > Main > General Bullshit > The Garfield Eats App needs to dig into/break the story of Nathen Mazri being an absolutely insane man because I am certain there's way way more going on beneath the surface here

These days reporters write whole articles based solely on random reddit posts, so why not SA too?

ninjoatse.cx
Apr 9, 2005

Fun Shoe
I Hate Mondays!

DeadFatDuckFat
Oct 29, 2012

This avatar brought to you by the 'save our dead gay forums' foundation.


Does the food have higher prices on mondays

Malcolm Excellent
May 20, 2007

Buglord
I want to post nudes on the Garfield Eats app

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Malcolm Excellent posted:

I want to post nudes on the Garfield Eats app

Aren't their tons of pictures of Garfield? Or is he a never-nude.

dsf
Jul 1, 2004

Malcolm Excellent posted:

I want to post nudes on the Garfield Eats app

I want to SEE nudes on the Garfield Eats app

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

pseudanonymous posted:

Aren't their tons of pictures of Garfield? Or is he a never-nude.

I assume he meant nudes of himself rather than ever more nudes of Garfield, of which thankfully the world brims.

quidditch it and quit it
Oct 11, 2012


Why can’t I get this app on the UK App Store, I’m missing out

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Big Beef City posted:

I assume he meant nudes of himself rather than ever more nudes of Garfield, of which thankfully the world brims.

Thanks for clarifying, I surely didn't misunderstand on purpose.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

pseudanonymous posted:

Thanks for clarifying, I surely didn't misunderstand on purpose.

You're welcome!
Please feel free to ask any more questions you have about the Garfield ap and be sure to vote the thread 5 and thank the OP if you enjoy :)

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

Big Beef City posted:

You're welcome!
Please feel free to ask any more questions you have about the Garfield ap and be sure to vote the thread 5 and thank the OP if you enjoy :)

I have quite enjoyed the thread and thank the OP.

A Pack of Kobolds
Mar 23, 2007



Mordja posted:

Yeah, this dude definitely seems stable.

Jim Davis thinks so, as long as his checks clear. From that Globe & Mail article:

"Mr. Davis, who first heard about Mr. Mazri’s idea through a licensing agent in 2016, called GarfieldEATS 'the most inventive and well-rounded concept we have ever received from the restaurant industry sector,' in an e-mail to The Globe. 'It would be great fun to see Garfield feeding the world. Nothing would make him happier, except of course, feeding himself.' "

Edit: VVV he means checks that end in fewer zeroes.

A Pack of Kobolds fucked around with this message at 21:26 on Jun 10, 2019

pseudanonymous
Aug 30, 2008

When you make the second entry and the debits and credits balance, and you blow them to hell.

A Pack of Kobolds posted:

Jim Davis thinks so, as long as his checks clear. From that Globe & Mail article:

"Mr. Davis, who first heard about Mr. Mazri’s idea through a licensing agent in 2016, called GarfieldEATS 'the most inventive and well-rounded concept we have ever received from the restaurant industry sector,' in an e-mail to The Globe. 'It would be great fun to see Garfield feeding the world. Nothing would make him happier, except of course, feeding himself.' "

The implication of that quote is that Jim Davis has received less well-rounded concepts from the restaurant industry sector.

It really seems a crime those haven't been published or written up somewhere.

Big Beef City
Aug 15, 2013

Arbuckles Coffee House didn't take off for some reason.
Something was wrong with the coffee.

Instruction Manuel
May 15, 2007

Yes, it is what it looks like!

dsf posted:

I want to SEE nudes on the Garfield Eats app

well there's already one

also, be the change etc...

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baby picture
Aug 7, 2004

I wish I could press a button and a rope would instantly tie around my ankle and I would be hung out of the highest window of the highest skyscraper in the world
Why did he shout out Breckin Meyer in the Instagram post

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