SCARBOROUGH FAIRE® PIRATES AND LONG JOHN SILVER’S® RAISE MORE THAN $12,000 FOR MAKE-A-WISH DURING ‘MUTINY MONDAYS’
LOUISVILLE, KY, June 6, 2005 – Thanks to Long John Silver’s® and a band of local buccaneers, the Make-A-Wish® Foundation of North Texas recently received a check for more than $12,000.
 The money was raised during “Mutiny Mondays” in May at Dallas-area Long John Silver’s restaurants. Each Monday, the popular Pirates of the Scarborough Faire® renaissance festival made appearances at local Long John Silver’s restaurants.
While there, the Pirates entertained customers, posed for photos and bought drinks for everyone in attendance. Long John Silver’s donated a percentage of all gross sales between 6 p.m. and 9 p.m. on “Mutiny Mondays” to Make-A-Wish. When the last mug of “grog” was drunk and the last pirate posed for photos, the total donation for Make-A-Wish was $12,028.60.
“Mutiny Mondays’ at Long John Silver’s were a great success,” said Roger Menchaca, Long John Silver’s Region Coach. “Our customers and employees embraced their ‘inner Pirates,’ and we raised a lot of money for a great cause. A lot of kids in and around Dallas will benefit from this effort.”
The restaurants that participated in “Mutiny Mondays” included the Long John Silver’s locations in Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth, Denton, Lake Worth, Waxahachie, Richardson, Corsicana, Lewisville, Irving, Garland, Paris, Weatherford, Grapevine, Allen, Seagoville, Euless, Pantego, Terrell, Mesquite, Grand Prairie, DeSoto, Palestine, Plano, McKinney, North Richland Hills, Roanoke, Carrollton, Rowlett, Granbury, Cleburne and Sherman.
Long John Silver’s was a sponsor of the 2005 Scarborough Faire Renaissance Festival, a recreated 16th century English Village in the time of King Henry VIII.
Since 1980, the Make-A-Wish Foundation® has enriched the lives of children with life-threatening medical conditions through its wish-granting work.
Long John Silver’s, Inc. based in Louisville, Kentucky (www.ljsilvers.com), is the world’s most popular quick-service seafood chain, specializing in batter-dipped fish, chicken, shrimp and hushpuppies. Inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic Treasure Island, Long John Silver’s, Inc. was founded in 1969. Today, there are more than 1,230 Long John Silver’s, Inc. restaurants worldwide, and an additional 221 points of distribution in multi-brand restaurants, serving nearly four million customers weekly. Long John Silver’s, Inc. is a subsidiary of Yum! Brands, Inc., (NYSE:YUM) the world’s largest restaurant company in terms of system units with more than 33,000 restaurants in more than 100 countries and territories.
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