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Texas cafe breaks Guinness World Record for paint-by-number of giant sandwich
By , Lily Rose
Published October 12, 2017
With help of the community, a Texas cafe has beaten the world record for "Most Contributions to a Painting." (Matt Lankes Photography)
The Austin-area café Schlotzsky’s has made the Guinness World Record for “Most Contributions to a Painting” due to a paint-by-number mural of a giant sandwich. The enormous mural made to look like a signature Schlotzsky’s sandwich was designed by street artist Sloke One(known as the “Mayor of Austin Graffiti Art”). The chain has several locations in and around Austin, but this record-breaking mural was done outside of Schlotzsky’s South Lamar Boulevard location.
The attempt to make world history was the finale of a three-day-celebration for the first official Austin City-designated “Schlotzsky’s Day” on October 6. The café was able to surpass the previous record holders, the Victoria Educational Organization in Hong Kong who had created a 42-foot-long mural with 2603 contributions in 2015.
A press release for the restaurant said that the mural featured “2,643 individual sections painted by Austinites and visitors over the course of three days, the mural surpassed the 2,604 goal and is a true ‘Austin Original,’ and a colorful, permanent legacy in the city.”
The mural featured 2,643 individual sections painted by Austinites and visitors over the course of three days. (Matt Lankes Photography)
Michael Empric, the Guinness adjudicator who presented Schlotzsky’s with the prestigious title, said, “It was wonderful to see so many members of the Austin community participating in Schlotzsky’s attempt for the Guinness World Records title of most contributions to a painting by numbers.”
The mural featured 2,643 individual sections painted by Austinites and visitors over the course of three days. (Matt Lankes Photography)
Achievement must be in the air, because hot on the heels of Schlotzsky’s record-breaking mural comes another massive accomplishment: Students at the State University of New York at Purchase recently broke the record for the world’s largest sushi roll.
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