9/29 Chili's dinner night for Childhood Cancer (public event)

Chili's to donate all profits from September 29 to St. Jude

On September 29, Chili’s Grill & Bar offers an easy way for you to join the fight against childhood cancer: dining out.

Participating Chili’s restaurants nationwide will donate 100 percent of its profits from this Monday to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. So enjoy those famous Baby Back Ribs or one of Chili’s other signature entrées for lunch or dinner, and you will be supporting the lifesaving work of St. Jude.

The special day is part of Chili’s “Create-A-Pepper to Fight Childhood Cancer” campaign. During September—which is National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month—guests can make a donation to St. Jude and receive a coloring sheet they can decorate and have displayed in the restaurant.

Guests can also purchase Create-A-Pepper T-shirts ($12) or you can purchase 2008 limited edition Chili’s – St. Jude keys ($5) that you can be cut for use at home. Sixty percent of the purchase price of the T-shirt and keys will go to St. Jude.

“Chili’s guests have enthusiastically embraced the mission of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital over the years, and I’m confident that September’s Create-A-Pepper campaign will once again inspire guests to support our lifesaving work,” said David L. McKee, interim CEO and chief operating officer of ALSAC, the fundraising organization for St. Jude. “We are so grateful for Chili’s partnership with St. Jude and for the company’s commitment to our patients and their families.”

To date, Chili’s has raised $18.7 million as part of a $50 million commitment to St. Jude over a 10-year period. Once completed, the donation will be the largest donation from a single partner campaign in St. Jude’s history.

For more information, to purchase Create-A-Pepper T-shirts and keys, to make an online donation or to create a pepper online, visit www.createapepper.com.