Hamburger States. In the U.S. in 1934, A.H. "Gus" Belt, the founder of Steak 'n Shake, devised a higher-quality hamburger and offered it as a "steakburger" to customers at the company's first location in Normal, Illinois. This burger used a combination of ground meat from the strip portion of T-bone steak and sirloin steak in its preparation. Steak burgers are a primary menu item at Steak 'n Shake restaurants, and the company's registered trademarks included "original steakburger" and "famous for steakburgers". Steak 'n Shake's "Prime Steakburgers" are now made of choice grade brisket and chuck. Beef is typical, although other meats
Mosa Meat cost $325,000 to produce and was funded by Google co-founder Sergey Brin. The production process took three laboratory technicians three months to grow the 20,000 individual muscle fibers that made up the burger. In July 2018 Mosa Meat announced that it had raised a €7.5 million Series A funding round. The round was led by M Ventures and Bell Food Group. Mosa Meat estimates that commercial availability of cultured meat could happen around 2021 in high-end restaurants at first, at around $11 per hamburger. Mosa Meat Mosa Meat is a Dutch food technology company, headquartered in Maastricht (the Netherlands) creating