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Libertyville Store to Offer Leap Year Birthday Present
Fodrak's, a gyro and ribs restaurant, will be giving people with a Leap Year birth date a $60-value catering package on Feb. 29, 2012.
Were you born on Feb. 29? A Libertyville gyro and ribs restaurant wants to help you to celebrate.
, 327 S. Milwaukee Ave., Libertyville, will be giving people with a leap year birthdate a $60-value catering package containing any food from the menu on any day before March 31, 2012.
“It rarely happens, so why not,” said owner Jim Lappas when asked why he decided to offer a leap year birthday present.
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This will be the first time the 25-year-old store offers promotion. People with a leap year birthday can stop in on Feb. 29, ask for Flavio, show him your identification with the leap year birthdate, and Flavio will arrange the catering package.
“The idea came out of the blue. Only one out of 1,400 people are born on that day. I only know one and I know a lot of people,” Lappas joked.
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Lappas expects the promotion to cost $300 but doesn’t mind if he goes over his budget.
“I want a few people to get the prize, but I just don’t want hundreds,” he said with a laugh.
For more information, call 1-847-816-8111. For a preview of what you can choose for your leap year birthday present, check menu at www.Fodraks.com.
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