New Cookbook Encourages Families to Cook Together While Learning
About Internet Safety
Red Robin’s cookbook benefiting the
National Center for Missing & Exploited Children features kid- and
celebrity-invented gourmet burgers and Internet safety tips
GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo. (Business Wire EON/PRWEB ) May 28, 2008 --
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®
(NCMEC), it’s important for families to have
conversations about serious subjects like safety while doing something
positive together – like cooking. Just in time
for June, which is National Internet Safety Month, Red Robin Gourmet
Burgers, Inc. (Red Robin), the gourmet burger experts, and NCMEC have
teamed up to provide families with a resource to discuss the rewards and
risks of Internet use – “The
Next Gourmet Burger Kids’ Recipe Contest”
Cookbook. The new cookbook is filled with tasty kid-invented gourmet
burger recipes and important NCMEC Internet safety tips. The cookbook
will be sold for $5 online at www.redrobin.com
until Aug. 10, 2008, and profits* benefit NCMEC.
“As kids’ Internet
use continues to increase, so do parents’
concerns about Internet safety. Cyberbullying, social networking and
online gaming have created new risks for today’s
kids, making it important for parents and guardians to find a way to
talk about Internet safety as a family,” said
Robbie Callaway, co-founder of NCMEC. “Cooking
offers an excellent opportunity for families to spend time together
doing something fun, while also talking about this important issue.”
According to NCMEC’s latest online
victimization research, approximately one in seven of the youth online,
ages 10 to 17-years-old, has received a sexual solicitation on the
Internet. As summer is the time when kids nationwide typically spend
more time surfing the Internet, learning now how to successfully
approach the topic of online safety can help families protect their kids
and keep them safer. Examples of NCMEC’s
Internet safety tips found in Red Robin’s “Next
Gourmet Burger Kids’ Recipe Contest”
Cookbook include:
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Keep the computer in a common room, and away from places like a
bedroom or basement.
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Go on the Internet with your kids and let them show you what they like
to do online.
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Know who your children are talking to online and set rules for social
networking, instant messaging, email and Webcams.
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Set time limits for computer use and make sure your children have
interests other than the Internet.
The cookbook also includes more than 50 kid-invented gourmet burger
recipes submitted in Red Robin’s second
annual “The Next Gourmet Burger Kids’
Recipe Contest,” and also includes celebrity
recipes from AnnaSophia Robb, the 14-year-old star of “Because
of Winn-Dixie” and “Bridge
to Terabithia,” and Chef CJ Jacobson from
Bravo’s “Top Chef
3: Miami.” Twelve-year-old San Diego, Calif.,
resident Joey Yarwick was the grand prize winner of the contest with his “Au
Brie Burger a la Francais,” which was
selected from more than 10,000 gourmet burger recipes Red Robin received
from kids ages six to 12. Yarwick’s winning
burger is made with ground sirloin, brie cheese, au gratin potatoes,
butter, cream, fresh rosemary, salt and pepper.
“We are honored to support the National
Center for Missing & Exploited Children through the sale of our second
annual ‘The Next Gourmet Burger Kids’
Recipe Contest’ Cookbook because of the
tremendous work NCMEC does to support kids and families,”
said Eric Houseman, Red Robin president and chief operating officer. “It’s
gratifying to share our passion for gourmet burgers in a way that also
helps families talk about such an important issue like Internet safety.”
Each gourmet burger recipe included in the cookbook was selected because
of its inventive combination of gourmet ingredients and fun flavors.
Peaches, artichokes, honey, pesto and chow mein noodles are just a few
popular gourmet burger toppings suggested by kids that can be found in
the cookbook.
For more information about Red Robin and its “The
Next Gourmet Burger Kids’ Recipe Contest”
Cookbook, please visit www.redrobin.com
or http://newsinfusion.com/video_details.php?videoId=180.
To learn more about NCMEC and their Internet safety resources, visit www.missingkids.com
or www.NetSmartz.org.
About Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (NASDAQ: RRGB)
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (www.redrobin.com),
a casual dining restaurant chain founded in 1969 that operates through
its wholly-owned subsidiary, Red Robin International, Inc., serves up
wholesome, fun, feel-good experiences in a kid- and family-friendly
environment. Red Robin® restaurants are
famous for serving more than two dozen insanely delicious, high-quality
gourmet burgers in a variety of recipes with Bottomless Steak Fries®,
as well as salads, soups, appetizers, entrees, desserts, and signature
Mad Mixology® Beverages. There are more than
390 Red Robin® restaurants located across the
United States and Canada, including corporate-owned locations and those
operating under franchise agreements.
About the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children®
(NCMEC)
The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children is a 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization. Since it was established by Congress in 1984,
the organization has operated the toll-free 24-hour national missing
children’s hotline which has handled more
than 2.2 million calls. It has assisted law enforcement in the recovery
of more than 126,000 children. The organization’s
CyberTipline has handled more than 588,000 reports of child sexual
exploitation and its Child Victim Identification Program has reviewed
and analyzed more than 13,902,500 child pornography images and videos.
The organization works in cooperation with the U.S. Department of Justice’s
office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. To learn more
about NCMEC, call its toll-free, 24-hour hotline at 1-800-THE-LOST or
visit its web site at www.missingkids.com
*From May 13 to August 10, 2008, or while supplies last, a minimum of
$3 from the sale of each cookbook will go to support the National Center
for Missing & Exploited Children®.
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