Crime & Safety
Qdoba Fundraiser To Take A Bite Out of Crime
Towson Area Citizens on Patrol to host Qdoba fundraiser, featuring a burrito relay.
It's the sort of competition where your warm-ups involve standing in line, craning your neck at a menu and keeping your drink at the ready.
A burrito relay is the centerpiece of a for Towson Area Citizens on Patrol to be held at the Joppa Road Qdoba on Monday from 5 to 8 p.m.
The group, formerly an informal organization, recently incorporated as a nonprofit. At the same time, TACOP lost a $1,000 county grant and local corporate donors pulled back their support. So the residents had to get creative, said Janice Arcieri, the group's secretary.
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"When we started thinking about a fundraiser, our president, Mike Calwell, said, 'Let's go to Qdoba,'" she said.
The Towson location will give 15 percent of its receipts for the night to the group, which serves 26 Towson neighborhoods.
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The two relays will pit students against Citizens on Patrol members at 6 p.m. and against at 7 p.m. The Citizens on Patrol team will include state Del. Bill Frank.
The teams will face off, four players on each side and each player with one burrito to conquer. When the clock starts, the first team member chows down, finishes their burrito, then the next player and so on. The first team to finish wins Qdoba gift cards.
The Towson Qdoba got the burrito relay idea from a fundraiser last year for Loch Raven Academy.
"All the teachers were doing the relay, so all the kids were all screaming and yelling, watching the teachers scarf down these burritos as fast as they could," said Reed Krakowitz, marketing director for nine Baltimore-area Qdoba locations.
Andy Potter, a regional director for Qdoba, said that the players get to choose the toppings for their burrito.
"EVeryone's putting stuff on their burrito that's not going to stuck," he joked, adding that the contestants will be able to have water handy, just in case.
The money raised will go toward setting up new Citizens on Patrol groups, as well as buying new equipment and T-shirts, Arcieri said.
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