Warren Buffett's Lunch Tab Tops $1.5 Million

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.

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(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. ...

With 13 hours left in the auction to nab a spot at Warren Buffett's annual fundraising lunch, 84 people had already entered bids.

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

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Someone has bid $700,100 to dine with billionaire investor Warren Buffett in an annual charity auction, putting the bidding far ahead of last year's level.

The high bid for a steak lunch with Warren Buffett has reached $900,100, with a little over a day to go in the annual charity auction.