9-Year-Old Girl Serves Winning Burger Recipe to Food Network Star, Wins Red Robin’s National Kids’ Cook-Off
December 03 2009 - 5:18PM
Business Wire
Watch out Food Network stars, you've got some tough new
competition! America’s newest culinary kid genius has been
crowned. Bonney Lake, Wash. resident, 9-year-old Emma
Potts has created America’s next gourmet burger – the “Spicy Honey
Glazed Bacon Burger.” Potts’ burger
recipe was chosen by a panel of judges including Robin Miller,
host of the Food Network “Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller.”
During the Red Robin Kids’ Cook-Off Championship in
Denver, Colo. today against nine other kid finalists, whose burger
recipes were selected from more than 11,000 kids ages six to 12
across the U.S., Potts’ “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger” was
selected as the Red Robin “Kids’ Cook-Off” Grand-Prize
Winner. As the grand-prize winner, Potts’ “Spicy
Honey Glazed Bacon Burger,” made with a burger patty topped with
honey, ripe red tomato, mayonnaise, bacon, cayenne pepper, butter
leaf lettuce and havarti cheese, will be sold in all U.S. Red
Robin® restaurants in summer 2010 to benefit the child safety
efforts of the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children® (NCMEC). Fifty-cents of every “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon
Burger” sold will go to support NCMEC’s child safety
initiatives.
“It was a thrill to be part of the judging panel for the
Red Robin ‘Kids’ Cook-Off’ Championship and to celebrate and
encourage kids’ culinary creativity while also supporting child
safety efforts,” said Food Network host, Robin Miller. “Working for
the Food Network has allowed me to try many creative ingredients,
and the ‘Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger’ was every bit as
delicious as the food I've tried from professional
chefs."
In addition to Potts’ “Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger,”
another burger recipe was also honored. Through a consumer-driven
online voting process, more than 14,000 Americans voted for
the inaugural Kids’ Cook-Off “Fan Favorite.” Ten-year-old
Daphney Thomas from Hillsboro, Ore., was named “Fan Favorite” for
her “A Double Dilly of a Burger,” which is made with two sirloin
patties, provolone cheese, deep fried dill pickles, lettuce,
mustard, and dill mayonnaise on an onion bun. Thomas received a
special award of recognition and a $100 gift card to Toys "R"
Us.
During the Kids’ Cook-Off Championship, the top 10
finalists showed-off their culinary skills by making their gourmet
burger recipes in a Food Network-style showdown and presenting them
to Robin Miller as well as other VIP judges including Tom Giesen,
executive producer of the Food Network’s Unwrapped shows, Denver
mommy-blogger Valentina Garcia, NCMEC co-founder Robbie Callaway
and Red Robin burger experts. Contestants also shared why they
thought their burger recipe should win in 100-words or less. Each
kid chef finalist was judged based on their gourmet burger recipe,
essay and overall presentation.
Outtakes from the Championship Event and Robin Miller's
announcement of the grand-prize winner can be seen at
www.redrobin.com/thefinalists.
“At Red Robin, we take great pride in being the gourmet
burger expert and providing our guests the opportunity to try a
variety of new, mouthwatering burgers like Emma’s, especially for a
great cause – child safety,” said Susan Lintonsmith, Red Robin
chief marketing officer. “On behalf of Red Robin, I’d like to
congratulate all our kid burger chefs and give thanks to our panel
of judges, including the Food Network's Robin Miller, who helped us
select our winner.”
Three runners up also were selected during the event:
12-year-old Mike Smyth Jr. from New Lenox, Ill., who created the
“Bacon Hot Popper Burger;” 12-year-old Gabriel Byrne from Berryton,
Kan., who created the “Seven Wonders Burger;” and 11-year-old Randi
Lenard from Rifle, Colo., who created the “Chili Lime Chicken
Roll.”
In addition to having her burger sold at Red Robin®
restaurants next summer to benefit NCMEC’s child safety
initiatives, Potts won a family vacation to Universal Orlando®
Resort. All 10 finalists each received a Red Robin iPod® nano, a
$100 Red Robin gift card and a Red Robin goodie bag, as well as
their all-expenses-paid trip to the Colorado Championship with a
parent or guardian and the opportunity to meet a Food Network
star. The finalists’ gourmet burger recipes, along with 40
other kid-invented burger recipes and a recipe from Cook-Off
celebrity judge, the Food Network’s Robin Miller, will also be
included in a kids’ cookbook that features child safety tips
from NCMEC available for free download online at
www.redrobin.com in summer 2010.
To watch the fourth annual Red Robin Kids’ Cook-Off
Championship in its entirety or to view specific footage of the
Grand-Prize Winner, Fan Favorite and runners-up, please
visit
www.redrobin.com/kidscookoff.
About Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (NASDAQ:
RRGB)
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.
(www.redrobin.com), a casual dining
restaurant chain founded in 1969 that operates through its
wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Robin International, Inc., serves up
wholesome, fun, feel-good experiences in a family-friendly
environment. Red Robin, which was recently named one
of Parents magazine’s Ten Best Family Restaurants, is famous for
serving more than two dozen insanely delicious, high-quality
gourmet burgers in a variety of recipes with Bottomless Steak
Fries®, as well as salads, soups, appetizers, entrees, desserts,
and signature Mad Mixology® Beverages. There are more
than 430 Red Robin® restaurants located across the United States
and Canada, including corporate-owned locations and those operating
under franchise agreements.
About the National Center for Missing & Exploited
Children® (NCMEC)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children
is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization. Since it was
established by Congress in 1984, the organization has operated the
toll-free 24-hour national missing children’s hotline which has
handled more than 2,423,800 calls. It has assisted law
enforcement in the recovery of more than 145,600 children.
The organization’s CyberTipline has handled more than 757,700
reports of child sexual exploitation and its Child Victim
Identification Program has reviewed and analyzed more than
28,956,160 child pornography images and videos. The
organization works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of
Justice’s office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency
Prevention. To learn more about NCMEC, call its
toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or visit its web site
at www.missingkids.com.
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