What will you get from bidding thousands of dollars just to dine with Warren Buffett?

Steak will be on the menu but the menu selections are not the point.

The world's second-richest person is auctioning lunch for a 10th straight year to benefit the Glide Foundation, a nonprofit in San Francisco's Tenderloin district that offers housing, job training, health and child care, and meals for the poor.

As in recent years, the auction winner and up to seven friends may dine with Buffett at the Smith & Wollensky steakhouse in New York. Buffett began donating lunches after his first wife Susan introduced him to Glide. Susan Buffett died in 2004.

"I would hope the same event is going to happen, but I'm not sure it's going to," the Rev. Cecil Williams, who founded Glide and leads its affiliated church, said in an interview. "But it is a good time for people to engage in compassion."

Williams, 79, said he last spoke a week ago with Buffett, who is a year younger. "He laughs a lot with me, and I like that," he said. "He's a very good man, he's just good."

You'd get dinner with Warren Buffett, and a chance to talk to him. Hard to tell what's on the menu, but according to the book "Snowball" he has a favorite steakhouse he usually takes people to.