You Could Win Free Chicken And Waffles For A Year On August 8th

If chicken and waffles are already your idea of a perfect meal, August 8th could be a very good day for you.

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Metro Diner is celebrating National Fried Chicken & Waffle Day on August 8th by giving away free Fried Chicken & Waffles for a year to 88 lucky fans. And because apparently one eight wasn’t enough, this year marks the eighth anniversary of the food holiday, making 8/8 the perfect date for the restaurant’s biggest giveaway yet.

Metro Diner says 88 winners will be selected through a combination of local drawings at its 69 restaurants, nationwide social media contests, and influencer partnerships. If you want a shot at being one of them, you’ll have multiple opportunities to enter rather than having to rely on a single nationwide sweepstakes.

The giveaway is tied specifically to National Fried Chicken & Waffle Day, which Metro Diner says it created in 2018 to celebrate its signature dish. The restaurant has been celebrating the holiday on August 8th ever since and this year’s anniversary gives it an excuse to make the whole thing considerably more generous.

Here’s How to Enter

The easiest opportunity is at your local Metro Diner.

Guests who order the restaurant’s Fried Chicken & Waffles in person on August 8th can enter a drawing at their local diner for a chance to win free Fried Chicken & Waffles for a year. Local winners will be selected the following week with diners announcing their winners and welcoming them back to claim their prize.

There will also be additional chances to win through Metro Diner’s social media channels and influencer partnerships, creating several opportunities for fans to get in on the giveaway.

Of course, “free chicken and waffles for a year” comes with a fairly specific definition of what you’re getting. The prize is for Metro Diner’s signature Fried Chicken & Waffles, rather than an unlimited pass to everything on the menu.

Still, that’s definitely not a bad prize.

What Are Metro Diner’s Chicken and Waffles?

If you’ve never had the dish at Metro Diner, its version is a fairly substantial combination.

The restaurant serves half of a crispy fried chicken alongside a fluffy Belgian waffle, then dusts the waffle with powdered sugar and adds strawberry butter. It’s finished with Metro Diner’s signature sweet-and-spicy sauce, giving the dish a combination of savory fried chicken, sweet toppings, and a little heat.

It’s also the dish that inspired the restaurant to create National Fried Chicken & Waffle Day in the first place.

And while there’s no shortage of restaurants serving some version of the combination, Metro Diner has made the dish a particularly big part of its identity. The annual August 8th holiday is essentially a yearly excuse to put the chicken-and-waffle situation front and center.

Why August 8th?

The date isn’t random.

National Fried Chicken & Waffle Day falls on August 8th, or 8/8, and this year happens to be the holiday’s eighth anniversary. That gives Metro Diner a particularly convenient excuse to lean hard into the number eight: eight years, August 8th, and 88 winners.

It’s the kind of marketing math that is difficult to resist. And if you’re going to invent a food holiday, you might as well celebrate the anniversary by giving away enough of the food to make the date memorable.

The giveaway will wrap up the week after August 8th, when local Metro Diner locations draw their winners and share the results on social media.

So if chicken and waffles are your thing, August 8th is probably worth putting on the calendar. You might not win a year’s worth of them, but at the very least, you’ve got a pretty solid excuse to order a plate.

And if the math works in your favor, you could be eating free chicken and waffles well into next summer.