Bio:
Monty’s Good Burger is the plant-based concept of close friends who could not imagine a better place to manifest their passion for real, quality food.
Founded in the summer of 2018 in Southern California, Monty’s has now served more than 2.5 Million+ Burgers, Fries, Tots & Shakes. We put every effort forward to provide our Customers and Team Members an enjoyable, safe, consistent and at times a fun experience.
Monty’s Good Burger features artisanal burgers made from locally sourced ingredients, house-made sauce, caramelized grilled onions and the plant-based Impossible™ 2.0 Patty. Monty’s creates a cheeseburger that anyone can enjoy guilt free. Beyond delicious, the burgers are an option for carnivores who care about the environment but still want that familiar taste, as our burgers require 75-80% less environmental resources than the traditional meat of the past.
The “Good” in Good Burger means much more than taste to us. We strive to sensibly source our ingredients, use only compostable serving products, provide our staff a living wage, a safe work environment and savings & insurance options.
Monty’s Good Burger serves up refreshing organic draft sodas made with pure cane sugar, sparkling house-made lemonade, cookies made by Rocco’s Sweet Shoppe, house-made sauces and delicious signature Organic Oatly Oatmilk Shakes. We are also very grateful to feature Chamberlain Coffee Shakes and Chicken Tenders from Daring Foods. Our burgers include artisan buns, plant-based cheese and Vegenaise® from Follow Your Heart®, a locally owned, family business for over 30 years.
Monty’s Good Burger is only made possible by Integrated Supply Chain Director Hans Petersen, People Operations Director Danielle J. Munns LLC, Store Operations Director Levi Audette, People Operations Manager Jemma Kessler, Merchandise Manager Anthony “A3” Anzaldo, Creative Director Dennis Gomez, Art Director Max Angles, Regional Manager Enrique “Weazel” Flores , Controller Tris Jung, Kitchen Truck Managers Garrett Guiney & Rio Shimizu, Training Managers Klarisza Cardenas & Stephanie Rizzo, Consultants Chris Ingerson / Philip Shaw / Barry Wood and our INCREDIBLE + AMAZING in-store Management Team & Staff. And of course……. Monty Jones (rescue schnoodle/mascot)!
The Recôncavo is an almost invisible center-of-gravity. Circumscribing the Bay of All Saints, this region was landing for more enslaved human beings than any other such throughout all of human history. Not unrelated, it is also birthplace of some of the most physically & spiritually uplifting music ever made. —Sparrow
"Dear Sparrow: I am thrilled to receive your email! Thank you for including me in this wonderful matrix."
—Susan Rogers: Personal recording engineer for Prince, inc. "Purple Rain", "Sign o' the Times", "Around the World in a Day"... Director of the Berklee Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory
I'm Pardal here in Brazil (that's "Sparrow" in English). The deep roots of this project are in Manhattan, where Allen Klein (managed the Beatles and The Rolling Stones) called me about royalties for the estate of Sam Cooke... where Jerry Ragovoy (co-wrote Time is On My Side, sung by the Stones; Piece of My Heart, Janis Joplin of course; and Pata Pata, sung by the great Miriam Makeba) called me looking for unpaid royalties... where I did contract and licensing for Carlinhos Brown's participation on Bahia Black with Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock...
...where I rescued unpaid royalties for Aretha Franklin (from Atlantic Records), Barbra Streisand (from CBS Records), Led Zeppelin, Mongo Santamaria, Gilberto Gil, Astrud Gilberto, Airto Moreira, Jim Hall, Wah Wah Watson (Melvin Ragin), Ray Barretto, Philip Glass, Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd for his interest in Bob Marley compositions, Cat Stevens/Yusuf Islam and others...
...where I worked with Earl "Speedo" Carroll of the Cadillacs (who went from doo-wopping as a kid on Harlem streetcorners to top of the charts to working as a janitor at P.S. 87 in Manhattan without ever losing what it was that made him special in the first place), and with Jake and Zeke Carey of The Flamingos (I Only Have Eyes for You)... stuff like that.
Yeah this is Bob's first record contract, made with Clement "Sir Coxsone" Dodd of Studio One and co-signed by his aunt because he was under 21. I took it to Black Rock to argue with CBS' lawyers about the royalties they didn't want to pay. They paid.
MATRIX MUSICAL
The Matrix was built below among some of the world's most powerfully moving music, some of it made by people barely known beyond village borders. Or in the case of Sodré, his anthem A MASSA — a paean to Brazil's poor ("our pain is the pain of a timid boy, a calf stepped on...") — having blasted from every radio between the Amazon and Brazil's industrial south, before he was silenced. (that's me left, with David Dye & Kim Junod for U.S. National Public Radio) ... The Matrix started with Sodré, with João do Boi, with Roberto Mendes, with Bule Bule, with Roque Ferreira... music rooted in the sugarcane plantations of Bahia. Hence our logo (a cane cutter).