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Fazoli’s announces second spaghetti giveaway
We told you earlier this week about a news release sent out by the restaurant chain Fazoli’s concerning a free spaghetti promotion (though, as readers quickly pointed out, the small spaghetti entree is only “free” if the customer purchases a drink, making it, well, not exactly free).
Now, Fazoli’s has issued a second news release about another spaghetti giveaway separate from the first, and specific to the Huber Heights Fazoli’s only. Here are excerpts from that second news release:
What: Fazoli’s Free Spaghetti Day
Date: Saturday, January 10
Where: Fazoli’s, 8341 Old Troy Pike, Huber Heights
Time: Long lines of hearty pasta lovers are expected to form before sunrise; the giveaway begins at 10:30 a.m. when the restaurant opens.
Details: The first 100 people inside Fazoli’s in HUBER HEIGHTS ONLY will get a free small spaghetti just for asking. Everyone in line at 10:30 will have a chance to win free spaghetti for the rest of the year.
Fazoli’s this week launched www.freespaghetti.com, a revolution against high restaurant prices that has guests around the country chanting, “Let them eat spaghetti!”
But only three restaurants in the country were selected to hold Free Spaghetti Day, which rewards the first 100 guests with free spaghetti and gives all guests in line at 10:30 a.m. a chance to win free spaghetti for a year. This is the only restaurant in Ohio that is participating.
I checked with the Fazoli’s spokesman who sent out the news release asking whether this spaghetti is truly free, or whether some type of purchase is required as with the chain’s other promotion. Here’s the reply I received from Brad Ritter on behalf of Fazoli’s:
The Saturday, Jan. 10 giveaway at the Huber Heights Fazoli’s is totally free, no strings (or noodles) attached. The first 100 guests will walk right in, order up and sit down with a steaming, regular order of spaghetti — marinara or meat sauce. No purchase of any sort is required. And everyone in line at 10:30 will have a chance to win free spaghetti every week for the rest of 2009. The menu price of a regular spaghetti with marinara sauce is $3.79, $3.99 with meat sauce.
Please let your readers know that the giveaway is only at the Huber Heights location mentioned in the advisory, and only this Saturday, July 10.
Okay, so, the giveaway is only at the Huber Heights location, and it’s only this Saturday morning. And this time, no drink purchase is required
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By mike
January 8, 2009 9:00 AM | Link to this
cold weather 25cents worth of pasta who are u kidding.they will get a lot of free advertising off this spinBy glenn
January 8, 2009 9:10 AM | Link to this
Yea, FRIENDLYS did the exact same thing to our family. Our three kids got several coupons from our library for reading several books. They were very happy about getting the free kids meal from FRIENDLYS. However after the waitress brought out the check we were told an adult meal must be purchased for them to use the coupon. So we had to pay over $40.00 for the visit. Needless to say we will never eat there again. (it was a joke) Never assume anything is free at any restaurant,there is always a catch. Thanks FRIENDLYS for the FREE kids meals that were NOT free!!By A Different MIke
January 8, 2009 10:51 AM | Link to this
…and your point about advertizing is??By annoyed
January 8, 2009 12:11 PM | Link to this
It is silly when people get mad when there is a slight catch to a free meal. If you would take an additional 2 seconds to read your coupon past the word “free” you would see that these deals usually require some sort of purchase. Buyer beware.By ohsocynical
January 8, 2009 1:07 PM | Link to this
Glenn, What in the world did you order that cost 40 dollars at friendlys? They don’t serve alcohol and all of the meals are no more than 10 dollars, so even at two people, that is only 20. It seems as if you were just the sucker they were hoping for.By james
January 8, 2009 1:25 PM | Link to this
Yea, Glenn, I was about to say, $40??!! Perhaps you should have eaten the 3 kids meals.By glenn
January 8, 2009 3:13 PM | Link to this
OK, the blog is about giveaways/promotions different Mike.Guess you didn’t see that. osocynical/james I will tell you what was $40. Not sure if you tip or not but here you go since you are so interested. 3 kids meals $18 2 adults $25 2 kids free -$12 tip $8 does that help fellas? The point is that a reward for kids reading books should not have a catch.By me2u
January 8, 2009 3:24 PM | Link to this
wah wah wah. My opinion is that they should have read the fine print. Or you could have even asked the manager before you ordered! Its not the restaurants fault you didnt look into that before deciding what to do!By Jamie
January 9, 2009 10:48 AM | Link to this
Personally, I will never eat at Friendlys again because I have never had good service there… but that’s another story.By It a Deal
January 9, 2009 1:01 PM | Link to this
It still a great deal even if you have to buy a pop. 99% of they time you would probably do this anyway.