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Food wars escalate as restaurants up the ante

Posted Feb 23 2009, 02:48 PM by Joan Melcher

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Weâ��ve been covering the food wars of fast-food chains, restaurants and coffee shops — free deals and bargains galore designed to hold on to that elusive market share.

And they just keep coming. This Tuesday (Feb. 24) you can get both breakfast and lunch for free if you have the time and inclination to track the deals.

IHOPâ��s Fat Tuesday promotion of a free short stack of buttermilk pancakes is becoming an annual event — but there is a string attached. They suggest you make a contribution to the Childrenâ��s Miracle Network.

They�ll be flipping out the �cakes from 7 a.m. to 10 p.m. and hope to raise $1 million this year for a network of 170 hospitals. The IHOP site explains that the hospitals in the network treat 17 million children annually and money raised is used for new equipment, patient services, research programs and health education.

There are no strings at your local Jack in the Box — just two free tacos this Tuesday with a coupon.

Last week we reported on TGI Fridayâ��s entrée deal — buy-one-get-one-free — until the end of the month. Ruby Tuesday has upped the ante — the same deal until March 24. But these coupons are rather hard to come by. Erin at Coupon Cravings saw one in a local paper and, although the Web is abuzz with the â��ideaâ�� of a Ruby Tuesday coupon, all trails lead to the corporationâ��s So Connected site, which would suggest the best way to get a coupon is to join Ruby Tuesdayâ��s online community.

If there�s a Houlihan�s nearby, you�ll want to check out their enticements. Perspective diners should note that the deals are good only after 4 p.m. Monday through Friday until this Friday (Feb. 27). Still, they�ve taken the most creative approach we�ve seen yet. When the Dow Jones industrial average is up, there are free Italian donuts for sit-down diners. When it�s down, diners can scoop up a voucher for a free appetizer on their next visit. And all patrons can enter a sweepstakes for a $5,000 U.S. savings bond.

Now that�s getting in the spirit: Free money.

via Food wars escalate as restaurants up the ante – Smart Spending Blog – MSN Money.

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“For the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth. I have been in ballparks for 17 years and have never received anything but kindness and encouragement from you fans.”

– Lou Gehrig, July 4, 1939

Those words were uttered by Lou Gehrig in a ceremony between games of a doubleheader at Yankee Stadium nearly 70 years ago as he was dying from ALS — amyotrophic lateral sclerosis — a disease that was unknown at the time, but would ultimately bear his name.

In honor of Gehrig’s memory, Major League Baseball has teamed with four major non-profit organizations to find a cure for the illness that destroys the nerve cells controlling muscles, causes complete paralysis and ultimately leads to death an average of 3-5 years after diagnosis.

The campaign, called “4♦ALS Awareness,” will culminate with Gehrig’s words being read at all Major League ballparks where games are played this coming July 4, during the seventh-inning stretch.

via MLB to fight ‘4♦ALS’ awareness | MLB.com: News.

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