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Vol. 15 No. 23
The Broad Ripple Gazette Including the Cultural Districts and Midtown: Meridian-Kessler, Butler-Tarkington, and Meridian St.
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Nov 9 - Nov 29, 2018
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Burger Fuel operations manager Sam Cooney at 6320 Guilford Avenue.
photo by Mario Morone
Public art - Murals from Burger Fuel By Mario Morone
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Sam Cooney is Operations Manager of Burger Fuel, located at 6320 Guilford Avenue. He recently discussed the distinctive murals painted on the restaurant’s south side wall and parking lot in addition to others painted around Broad Ripple. “We have one on our restaurant and have partnered with other businesses to paint murals on their walls. There’s one on the back wall at Ossip Optometry (804 Broad Ripple Avenue) with different pairs of glasses. We have one on Bright Ideas (7425 Westfield Boulevard) with two birds that symbolize a father and his nestling. We have a mural on the side of the Egyptian Lounge (6265 Carrollton Avenue) right next to the U.S. Post Office,” he explained. They were among eight murals painted in a week by Burger Fuel’s resident artist Kairau “Haser” Bradley who used 136 cans of spray paint. “One of our guys from New Zealand flies around the world painting murals at our stores and in their neighborhoods. His day job is a graphic designer at BurgerFuel HQ, his night job is painting murals. We made a great impact at the start, but it’s important that we partner with local artists as well to continue our work in the community. We work with local Indianapolis artists FAB Crew who have added to our parking lot mural wall, and who painted our most recent mural at Passwater Auto Specialists (located at 821 Broad Ripple Avenue), which is a throwback to the bootlegging origins of NASCAR,” Cooney said. (He organized the activities that involved creating the murals.) In addition to the murals, Burger Fuel gives back to the community. “Another unique community activity that we do is a program called Common-Unity. Each month, we pick three charities from the local community, and we donate $500 to them photo by Mario Morone ($250 for first place, $150 for A male bird at Bright Ideas at 7425 Westfield Boulevard. second place and $100 for third place). Customers receive a purple token when they order and can vote for one of the three causes by dropping their token into the respective jar at the restaurant. We put up the money and just get our customers to tell us how to divvy up the money each month. In the year that we’re been open, we have given over $6,000 to local charities. We think that Broad Ripple is a cool little village. That’s why we came here and we work with the community wherever we can, as we want to see Broad Ripple thrive. Partnering with charities, adding culture through painting the murals, and putting on local events are some of the ways we do this. On August 4th, we threw our first anniversary birthday party. That was to thank everyone in the community for
Christine Carlson (‘66), Charlie Waite, Karen Piotroski Briskey (‘66), and Susanne Powers Keeton (‘66) at the White River Yacht Club reunion for the Class of 1966.
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Two recent BRHS alumni gatherings Above: The Class of 1966 met at the White River Yacht Club. Below: The class of 1957 met for lunch at the Riviera Club.
their support and to give back by putting on a really cool event,” Cooney mentioned. Burger Fuel is open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Friday and Saturday. Cooney arrived in the United States in June of 2017. His initial impressions of Indianapolis were, “A cool little city, with good spots to visit once you learn and scout them out.” “Part of our brand is trying to be a bit different from a regular food or burger place. We have been painting murals for 20 years. When we arrived in Indianapolis, we started painting and have just been adding to those over the last year. Burger Fuel opened on May 29, on Memorial Day 2017. We thought the Midwest was a good place to start and we homed in on Indianapolis and within it, we found Broad Ripple. It kind of reminded us of where we opened our first store in New Zealand in 1995. It has a similar vibe with the Village. It has been a good place to start and the plan is to circle out from here,” he noted. Cooney described their menu. “We give a fresh and modern take on the hamburger,
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1 Village murals
5 BR Brewpub Quiz
8 Buzzing Around Town
1 Random Rippling reunions
6 Classified Ads
8 Random Rippling City Dogs 12 Hidden History
15 Directory
2 Random Rippling Pop In
6 Public Notices
9 Frog’s Random Rippling
12 Sudoku
16 Maps
3 Calendar
7 Random Rippling Boo/Beer
9 Poetic Thoughts
13 Historic Ad
19 Life of the Party
4 Frog’s Random Rippling
7 Local Contacts
10 Round the Ripple
13 Crossword
19 Random Rippling Press
11 BR Farmers Market
14 Did You Know?
20 Random Rippling Pints
5 Random Rippling Marathon 7 Mistakes winner
12 Where in the Village?
14 Wine Scene Jill A. Ditmire