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Eat'n Park Celebrates 31st Annual Caring for Kids Campaign With Free Smiley Cookie Day

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Eat'n Park and local Lincoln Mercury dealers are partnering to sweeten guests' day on Friday, November 6 with Free Smiley Cookie Day, to kick off Eat'n Park's 31st annual Caring for Kids campaign, benefitting children's hospitals.

All guests who purchase a Mercury Milan Raffle Ticket, which benefits the Caring for Kids campaign, on November 6, from 6 a.m. to 10 p.m., will receive a Free Smiley Cookie, courtesy of local Lincoln Mercury dealers. The offer includes one Smiley Cookie per guest.

This year marks the 17th year of partnership for Eat'n Park and Lincoln Mercury, who annually donates a vehicle to the Caring for Kids campaign. The car raffle has generated $1.5 million for local children's hospitals. This year, one lucky Eat'n Park guest will walk away with a 2010 Mercury Milan vehicle, courtesy of Lincoln Mercury dealers.

Eat'n Park's Caring for Kids campaign has raised more than $7 million since its inception in 1979, thanks to the energy and dedication of Eat'n Park's partners, team members and guests who are passionate about the success of this campaign.

According to Jeff Broadhurst, CEO and president, Eat'n Park, "We're proud to be a part of the communities we serve and want to do our part. A big way we do that is to raise money for our local children's hospitals to help support the health of the kids in our community. This campaign is really about neighbors helping neighbors in their time of need."

In addition to the Mercury Milan raffle, guests may also purchase Smiley magnets or Christmas Star Flip Books for $2. The new flip books illustrate Eat'n Park's famous Christmas commercial as the pages are flipped and is nostalgic of the flip books Eat'n Park distributed with kids meals for many years. All proceeds benefit the Caring for Kids campaign, which will run through December 12.

For more information, guests are invited to visit the company's website, www.eatnpark.com or their neighborhood Eat'n Park restaurant.

Celebrating 60 years in business, Eat'n Park Restaurants is an award-winning family restaurant and bakery chain with 76 locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and more than 8,000 team members. The chain is a division of the Eat'n Park Hospitality Group based in Pittsburgh.

The Eat'n Park Hospitality Group is a portfolio of foodservice concepts focused on personalized dining. The company consists of two divisions: a restaurant division, which includes Eat'n Park Restaurants and Six Penn Kitchen and a contract foodservice division, including: Parkhurst Dining Services - providing contract dining services to businesses, higher education institutions, and cultural centers; and CURA Hospitality - enhancing life around great food by providing contract dining and management services for hospitals and senior living communities.

SOURCE Eat'n Park Restaurants