{"id":7405,"date":"2012-10-17T09:55:10","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/?p=7405"},"modified":"2013-02-10T17:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-02-10T23:05:31","slug":"space-aliens-founder-former-mcdonalds-owner-sells-10000-bbq-sauce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/7405\/space-aliens-founder-former-mcdonalds-owner-sells-10000-bbq-sauce","title":{"rendered":"Space Aliens Founder, Former McDonald&#8217;s Owner Sells $10,000 BBQ Sauce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to founding the successful chain of alien-themed restaurants from the final frontier, local resident Mort Bank had found his initial success as an operator of several McDonald&#8217;s restaurants, including the McRock Cafe on Main Avenue in Bismarck.<\/p>\n<p>This busy entrepreneur has now made big bucks from something rather surprising\u2026 a $10,000 winning eBay bid for a one gallon tub of expired barbeque sauce. This is no ordinary sauce, however, nor is it Space Aliens\u2019 award-winning sauce. This was a one gallon tub of McJordan Barbecue Sauce, which was offered for only a limited time in limited markets.<\/p>\n<p>The sauce apparently had a listed expiration of December 1992.<\/p>\n<p>Mort Bank opened his first McDonald\u2019s in 1971 in Bismarck. One of his most famous McDonald\u2019s incarnations, however, is the <a title=\"McDonald\u2019s Rock N\u2019 Roll Cafe\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/mcdonalds-rock-n-roll-cafe\">McRock Cafe<\/a>. Mort started <a title=\"Space Aliens Grill &amp; Bar\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/directory\/space-aliens-grill-bar\">Space Aliens Bar &amp; Grill<\/a>, also in Bismarck, in 1997.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prior to founding the successful chain of alien-themed restaurants from the final frontier, local resident Mort Bank had found his initial success as an operator of several McDonald&#8217;s restaurants, including the McRock Cafe on Main Avenue in Bismarck. This busy entrepreneur has now made big bucks from something rather surprising\u2026 a $10,000 winning eBay bid [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7407,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[518,216,364],"tags":[927,928,908,957],"class_list":["post-7405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bismarck-news","category-featured","category-home-page","tag-mcdonalds","tag-mcrock-cafe","tag-mort-bank","tag-space-aliens-grill-bar"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7405\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bismarckcafe.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}