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TSB’s Top Ten

Mojoe’s = 4.83
Johnson’s = 4.5
Bonefish Grill = 4.5
Salem Street Pub = 4.33
Corner Tavern and Grill = 4.00
Players’ Retreat = 4.00
Carolina Brewery = 3.50
Cheesecake Factory = 3.50
Tribeca Tavern = 3.17
Tyler’s Taproom = 2.67

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Who We Are

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Scott Blumenthal, Michael Marino, and John McManus have been rating burgers since 1934.

What’s the real reason you’re qualified to review burgers?

We were hoping not to resort to this, but here is a listing of our academic credentials and our biographies.

John McManus is a distinguished Burgiatrist and renowned author of, “Self-Actualization, Medium-Rare,” which convinced the world to accept an additional level to Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs. Having studied abroad, his advanced degree in Burgiatry is from Universität Müenster in Hamburg, Germany. Also widely known as the creator of the ketchup blot test for diagnosing severe ground beef addiction, and for his many published collections of hamburger poetry, including, “Hold Me, There’s a Slight Grill in the Air.”

Michael Marino holds a Ph.D. from Tufts University in Holistic Burgology, with a concentration in Condiments. He is the author of the highly regarded “Achieving Complete Peace and Wellness, One Burger at a Time.”

Scott Blumenthal is a leading British burgrarian, having spent eight years as a research fellow at Cheltenham & Gloucester College of Meat Pies. He is the author of the “The Demise of Henry VIII: Conspiracy, Treason, and One Too Many Patty Melts.” Blumenthal is currently teaching several doctoral-level courses at Duke University, including Colonialism, Imperialism, and Transnationalism in the Era Before Ketchup, which explores the dearth of tomatoes in 16th-century Denmark and the relationship between dry hamburgers and the demise of the Spanish Armada.

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