ClaimsWarren Buffett

“Gorat's ¾ my favorite steakhouse ¾ will again be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, April 29”

Warren Buffett, Berkshire chairman 28 February 2001 Chairman's Letter (2000) (Berkshire Hathaway) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

Gorat's steakhouse will be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, April 29, 2001, serving from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.

Unresolvable The public record could not settle it.

Promise: Commitments to the person's or organisation's own future action, with something to deliver: was it delivered?

Said for an organisation they lead or work for; it counts on both records.

What would count as true or false

True: contemporaneous evidence (Berkshire's 2001 meeting materials or shareholder letter follow-up, press coverage or attendee accounts) shows that Gorat's steakhouse was open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, 29 April 2001. Mostly true: the shareholders-only opening took place that Sunday, but the serving hours differed from 4–10 p.m. or another minor detail differed. Mostly false: Gorat's hosted shareholders that weekend, but not exclusively, or on a different day. False: evidence shows that Gorat's did not hold a shareholders-only opening that weekend (for example the event was cancelled, or the restaurant was open to the public as usual).

Set before the research began.

Evidence (1)

  1. E1 Louis Gorat’s Steak House Omaha Exploration · 2 September 2023

    “It became world famous after Gorat agreed, for the first time, to open the restaurant on Sunday evening following the annual Berkshire Hathaway shareholder meeting in 1996.”

Reasoning

E1 says only that Gorat's first opened on the Sunday evening after the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting in 1996. It does not mention the 2001 meeting weekend or a shareholders-only opening on 29 April 2001. No evidence given confirms or contradicts the promised event.

Cite this claim

Warren Buffett, “Gorat's steakhouse will be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, April 29, 2001, serving from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.” (said 28 February 2001). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_3eec1887371d, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_3eec1887371d

This claim is in dataset release v1.1.2, with the same verdict.

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