100 Hooters Pageant Contestants Will Package 20,000 Meals for Haiti

HOLLYWOOD, Fla., July 5 /PRNewswire/ -- 100 Hooters International Swimsuit Pageant Contestants will be packing 20,000 ready to eat meals in two hours on Monday, July 5th at the Westin Diplomat Hotel in Hollywood, Florida. The meals packaged by the Hooters Girls will go to malnourished children in Haiti. "We are proud to have Hooters support the important work that Stop Hunger Now does to aid the hungry around the world," said Mike McNeil, the Vice President of Marketing for Hooters of America. "It makes sense for a restaurant company to be involved in the noble goal of ending world hunger, and the fact that 100 Hooters Girls will be able to create 20,000 meals in just a few hours is a testament to the ingenuity and efficiency of this fine Organization."

Earlier this year, in response to the overwhelming need for assistance in Haiti, Hooters launched a charity campaign known as Hooters 4 Haiti to benefit a hunger relief organization called Stop Hunger Now. During the 4th quarter of Super Bowl XLIV, all Hooters sales including dine-in, to-go, and online ordering were donated to Stop Hunger Now for Haiti Relief Efforts. During the 46 minutes of this year's 4th Quarter of the Super Bowl, Hooters raised and donated $103,731.00 to hunger relief in Haiti.

Stop Hunger Now www.stophungernow.org is an international hunger relief organization that coordinates the distribution of food and other life-saving aid around the world. The organization is driven by a vision to end world hunger in our lifetime and a mission to provide food and life-saving aid to the world's most destitute and hungry in the most sustainable, efficient and effective manner. Stop Hunger Now's meal packaging program provides volunteers the opportunity to package dehydrated, high protein, and highly nutritious meals that are used in crisis situations and in school feeding programs for schools and orphanages in developing countries around the world. In its efforts to respond to emergency needs around the world Stop Hunger Now receives and distributes significant donations of in-kind aid. These donations are large quantities of food, medicines, medical supplies and other such items as may be of use in fighting hunger and providing relief in a crisis.

 Hooters of America, Inc. is the franchisor and operator of over 455 Hooters restaurants in 42 states and 28 foreign countries.  The first Hooters opened in 1983 in Clearwater, Florida.  Hooters is well-known for its brand of food and fun, featuring a casual beach-theme atmosphere, a menu that features seafood, sandwiches and Hooters nearly world famous chicken wings, and service provided by the All-American cheerleaders, the Hooters Girls.  For more information about Hooters visit http://www.hooters.com.

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