SHYAN ZAKERI THROWS burger parties. As the co-founder of the Shy's Burgers pop-up-which launched last year after Zakeri and his friend Alexander David began selling burgers that they lowered to friends in a bucket from a Williamsburg balconyZakeri has cooked at Maria Hernandez Park in Bushwick; a house party in Southampton; Flynn McGarry's wine bar, Gem; and the Dimes Square sushi spot Time. (Zakeri estimates he's cooked close to 10,000 burgers in the past 17 months.) But on a recent rainy Sunday morning, he tried something different: Shy's Bazaar, where cash, Venmo, and other federally recognized forms of currency would not be accepted. Instead, people could trade their belongings for Zakeri's smash burgers. "I just thought it was funny," he says. "I get these ideas and kind of go with them."
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