Stew Leonard's Offers 10,000 Burgers for Trump/Kim Summit

DANBURY, CT -- Instead of bombs and bullets, one famous Danbury-area entrepreneur believes that burgers may hold the secret for enduring peace in the Korean peninsula.

Stew Leonard Jr., CEO of Stew Leonard's, has offered to donate 10,000 burgers for the peace summit between President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, according to food industry newsletter The Shelby Report. This followed the curious revelation that the North Korean government wanted to open a “burger joint” in Pyongyang.

President Donald Trump, who has made no secret of his preference for burgers on the world stage, would no doubt welcome the donation. Leonard has even offered to stamp "USA" into the middle of each peace-seeking patty. Sweetening the deal further, Leonard says the summit sandwiches would be the new filet burgers made by hand using cuts of filet mignon, short rib and ground chuck.

The Leonard family started a dairy farm in Norwalk in 1923, and opened their first retail dairy store there in 1969. The business expanded into Danbury in 1991, followed by stores in Newington, Yonkers and Long Island.