COLUMBUS, Ohio, Jan. 10, 2007 (PRIME NEWSWIRE) -- Bob Evans has built a better hotcake, and they're inviting hotcake lovers everywhere to join the fun with their first foray into the blogosphere and an eBay charity auction for breakfast with company founder Bob Evans. The Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes, available in three decadent flavors, debut the same day as the auction and the blog -- Jan. 11, 2007.
The winning bidder of the eBay auction will choose between two three-day trips for four:
1) The Bob Evans Farm and Homestead Museum in Gallipolis/Rio Grande,
Ohio, where they can dine with legendary restaurant founder Bob
Evans and Bob Evans Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive
Officer, Steve Davis, at the original Bob Evans Restaurant where
the company began.
- OR -
2) ...any Bob Evans Restaurant location, such as New York, Florida,
North Carolina or simply at a Bob Evans Restaurant around the
corner from their friends or family!
The package includes a three-day trip for four people with round-trip airfare, the breakfast, car rental for three days, hotel accommodations and a $500 Bob Evans gift card. 100% of the auction proceeds benefit Bob Evans hometown affiliate of Habitat for Humanity.
The Bob Evans blog, www.imstuffed.blogspot.com, will feature tips for making Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes at home, recipes, interviews with the Bob Evans chef who created the new dish, updates on Bob Evans' new partnership with their hometown affiliate of Habitat for Humanity and much more. Readers are invited to comment on the new hotcakes and to submit their photos and videos of themselves getting stuffed on the new hotcakes.
The new Stacked and Stuffed Hotcakes come in three varieties: roasted caramel apple cream, caramel banana pecan cream or chocolate banana cream.
Bob Evans Farms, Inc. (Nasdaq:BOBE) owns and operates 589 full-service, family restaurants in 18 states primarily located in the Midwest, mid-Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States. In addition, the company operates 106 Mimi's Cafe casual restaurants located in 19 states, primarily in California and other western states. Bob Evans Farms, Inc. is also a leading producer and distributor of pork sausage and a variety of complementary homestyle convenience food items under the Bob Evans and Owens brand names. For more information about Bob Evans Farms, Inc., visit the company's Web site at www.bobevans.com.
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