As of 25 Oct 2026
The index
Hot score and the Burger Price Index are views over the mention and price tables. Nobody types a number in by hand. Right now the inputs are sparse, so the honest result is a short list and a one-burger basket.
Hot score
2 rooms make the list: one press mention in 30 days, or two Reddit mentions in 14 days.
383 others have a score and sit off the list this month. 16 old permits stay off. A restaurant's own site doesn't count as press. Social weight is 0.
- Recency · 30
60-day half-life. Pre-opening uses a fixed 0.75, not day zero.
- Press · 35
Mentions in the last 30 days. log(1 + count), then min-max.
- Reddit · 25
Mentions in the last 14 days. Same scaling.
- Social · 0
Instagram and X stay at 0 until a free feed exists.
- Grade · 5
A letter grade would score full. No letters are in yet, so every room stays neutral.
2 press in 30 days · 0 Reddit in 14 days · opening date
1 press in 30 days · 0 Reddit in 14 days · opening date
Burger Price Index
1 plain single cheeseburger and 4 signature prices, all seen 2026-10. Delivery apps are excluded. Borough-by-style cells need 5 observations; this build has 0.
Prices exist for a single month, so there is no matched panel.
| Basket | Place | Month | n | Median |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plain cheeseburger | Brooklyn | 2026-10 | 1 | $18 · fries in 1 |
| Plain cheeseburger | New York City | 2026-10 | 1 | $18 · fries in 1 |
| Signature | Brooklyn | 2026-10 | 2 | $26 · fries in 2 |
| Signature | Manhattan | 2026-10 | 2 | $35 · fries in 1 |
| Signature | New York City | 2026-10 | 4 | $31 · fries in 3 |
Observations
- The Long Island Bar: single-patty burger w/ cheese $18 · plain single · fries included · 2026-10-25 · source
- The Long Island Bar: LI Burger (double) $22 · signature · fries included · 2026-10-25 · source
- Raoul's: Burger au poivre (signature) $32 · signature · fries included · 2026-10-25 · source
- Minetta Tavern: Black Label burger (signature) $38 · signature · 2026-10-25 · source
- Red Hook Tavern: dry-aged burger (signature) $30 · signature · fries included · 2026-10-25 · source
The only plain cheeseburger includes fries, so the citywide median is not a fries-excluded basket. It is one Brooklyn check.