Record Bill for Lunch With Buffett: $2.6 Million

  Everyone’s favorite billionaire investor, Warren Buffett, still seems to be a popular fellow, despite a few recent bumps in the road.

(Reuters) - A typical lunch at a high-end Manhattan steakhouse for nine people might run $1,000 or so, but when Warren Buffett is the guest of honor the price can rise to $3.46 million. That is how much an as-yet unknown bidder paid in the annual online charity auction for the right to lunch with the "Oracle of Omaha" and seven friends at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in Manhattan. The proceeds were up compared to last year, when fund manager Ted Weschler bid $2.63 million to have lunch with Buffett. ...

Alert: if you want to have lunch with the Oracle of Omaha, it's going to cost you more than $2 million.The annual charity auction of a lunch with investment guru Warren Buffett got underway Monday, and just hours into the five-day bidding battle, the price was already at $2,000,111.The founder and wizard of investment house Berkshire Hathaway has put a meal with him on the auction block every year since 1999, to raise money for The Glide Foundation of San Francisco.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- The winner of this year's charity auction to dine with billionaire Warren Buffett gets a slight discount over last year, but will still plunk down more than $1.68 million dollars for lunch....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The annual charity auction of a steak lunch with billionaire investor Warren Buffett, which raised a record $2.11 million last year, is off to a good start.

Reuters - If you have a couple million dollars to spare and a taste for steak, Warren Buffett is looking for lunch companions.

The eleventh annual charity auction of lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett brought in more than $2.6 million, breaking the previous record of $2.1 million by investor Zhao Danyang

The eleventh annual charity auction of lunch with Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett brought in more than $2.6 million, breaking the previous record of $2.1 million by investor Zhao Danyang