ClaimsWarren Buffett

“Gorat's ¾ my favorite steakhouse ¾ will again be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, May 5, and will be serving from 4 p.m. until 10 p.m.”

Warren Buffett, Berkshire chairman 28 February 2002 Chairman's Letter (2001) (Berkshire Hathaway) archived copy

Promise Their own work or organisation

Gorat's steakhouse will be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, May 5, 2002, 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?

The evidence is the person's or their organisation's own records.

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

What would count as true or false

True: Gorat's was open only to Berkshire shareholders on Sunday 5 May 2002 and served roughly from 4 to 10 p.m. Mostly true: it was open exclusively for shareholders that Sunday, but the serving hours differed slightly. Mostly false: Gorat's hosted shareholders that day but was not exclusive to them, or the event was held on a different date. False: dated evidence shows that no shareholder-exclusive opening took place on 5 May 2002.

Set before the research began.

Evidence (2)

  1. E1 2002 Annual Meeting Information Berkshire Hathaway Inc. · 6 May 2002 Own record

    “The 2002 Berkshire Hathaway Inc. Annual Shareholders Meeting was held in Omaha, Nebraska on Saturday May 4, 2002.”

  2. E2 2002Annual Meeting berkshireletters.com · 1 May 2002 Own record

    “I brought you two of my favorite German chocolates. One for you, Mr. Buffett. One for you, Mr. Munger. And I will give them to you tomorrow at the steak house.”

Reasoning

E1 confirms only that the annual meeting took place on Saturday, May 4, 2002, and says nothing about Gorat's. In E2, a meeting transcript, a shareholder mentions seeing Buffett and Munger "tomorrow at the steak house". That points to a steakhouse gathering on Sunday, but it does not name Gorat's, show that it was open only to shareholders, or give the serving hours. Neither source is independent of the subject, and together they do not settle the criteria.

Cite this claim

Warren Buffett, “Gorat's steakhouse will be open exclusively for Berkshire shareholders on Sunday, May 5, 2002, serving from 4 p.m. to 10 p.m.” (said 28 February 2002). Verdict: unresolvable. Reliability API, claim c_fcd5679a5e6f, method 0.1.0+28da144b, dataset release v1.1.2. https://epistacklabs.com/claims/c_fcd5679a5e6f

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

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