Quick Chek to Host Sub 'Showdown'

Finalists will build recipes to be judged Oct. 16 with chance to make chain's menu Oct. 07, 2010

WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J. -- Quick Chek, a chain of 125 convenience food store locations throughout New Jersey and southern New York, has announced the names of the five finalists slated to compete in its first-ever Sub Showdown, a build-your-own-sub recipe contest in which contestants will vie to win free Quick Chek subs for a year, as well as the chance to have their recipe added to the chain's menu of sub varieties and sold across its entire operating region.

Quick Chek's Sub Showdown will take place Saturday, October 16 at at the chain's newest Bayonne, N.J., store. There, [image-nocss] participants will help to build their sub recipes and serve them to a team of four judges including Quick Chek senior category manager for foodservice Jennifer Vespole; Quick Chek category manager Mandy Steindl-Kwiecien; Performance Food Group corporate chef Robert Conti; and a Quick Chek Facebook fan.

Ultimately, one contestant will be crowned the Quick Chek Sub Showdown grand-prize winner.

Quick Chek's first-ever Sub Showdown contestants are:
Michael Caballero from Piscataway, N.J., who will present his "Pigs in a Blanket" sub. Joseph Cristiano from Suffern, N.Y., who will present his "Mozzarella Mania" sub. Katy Ells from Ewing, N.J., who will present her "The Mouser" sub. Alan Kahn from Old Bridge, N.J., who will present his "The Big Bad Bacon Chicken" sub. Debbie Pikul from Middletown, N.Y., who will present her "Happy Cowboy" sub. Beginning June 14, Quick Chek customers were invited to visit www.ilovemysub.com to create and submit their very own sub recipe. More than 4,100 sub entries were collected through September 6 where website visitors were able to vote for their favorites. The top three sub recipes with the most votes created by Joseph Cristiano, Katy Ells and Alan Kahn, along with two others selected by food experts at Quick Chek created by Michael Caballero and Debbie Pikul, were invited to compete in the chain's sub recipe battle.

Devoted to providing convenient shopping blended with an expansive range of fresh products and services, Quick Chek is a market leader in foodservice with a well-known fresh coffee
and fresh food program. Operating 125 retail locations in New Jersey and southern New York, Quick Chek's locations include 12 pharmacy stores and 28 locations with fuel.

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