Eat’n Park’s Halloween Smiley Cookies Return to their Old Haunts

Chain’s Most Popular Smiley Cookies Available In Restaurants and Online; Merchandise and Apparel to Feature Halloween Smiley Cookies

PITTSBURGH, Oct 22, 2008 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ — Eat’n Park’s scariest Smiley Cookie returns. Baked fresh daily and adorned with spooky green grins and candy corn eyes and noses, Halloween Smiley Cookies are available at all Eat’n Park locations and at http://www.smileycookie.com. This Halloween, Eat’n Park guests can do more than just eat this special treat — now they can wear it too.

According to the National Retail Federation ( http://www.nrf.com), nearly 65 percent of consumers celebrate Halloween, and they are expected to scare up an estimated $5.77 billion in sales this year. “Halloween is a fun time of year at Eat’n Park, and our Halloween Smiley Cookie is our most popular and best-selling Smiley Cookie each year,” said Kevin O’Connell, senior vice president, Eat’n Park. “The Halloween Smiley cookie has become one of the icons of the season so we decided to expand the popular Halloween Smiley image to t-shirts and other merchandise to help people celebrate the season.”

Eat’n Park’s Halloween Smiley Cookie was exposed to a national audience in 2007, when it made its movie debut in R.L. Stine’s The Haunting Hour: Don’t Think About It, a children’s movie from the creator of the popular Goosebumps series for kids. Now, guests may purchase merchandise and apparel, including t-shirts and shoe charms featuring the Halloween Smiley Cookie’s likeness.

Halloween Smiley Cookies and Halloween Smiley Shoe Charms are available at all Eat’n Park locations. Eat’n Park’s new Halloween Smiley t-shirts are available online at http://www.smileycookie.com and at select Eat’n Park locations, including:

– Cranberry Township, 19085 Perry Highway
– Robinson Township, 100 Park Manor Drive
– Uniontown, 519 West Main Street
– Center Township, 120 Wagner Road
– North Huntingdon, 8891 Route 30
– McKnight Road (northbound), 7370 McKnight Road
– Monroeville, 3987 Monroeville Boulevard
– Grove City, 1911 Leesburg Road

Halloween Smiley Cookies can be shipped to ghosts and ghouls nationwide at http://www.smileycookie.com and can be found at all Eat’n Park locations.

Eat’n Park Restaurants, founded in 1949 as a family carhop, is an award-winning family restaurant chain with 77 locations in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia, and is a member of the Eat’n Park Hospitality Group, a leading, regional multi-concept foodservice company. Other brands operated by the Group include, Park Classic Diner, a retro-eatery reminiscent of the company’s roots, Six Penn Kitchen, an upscale American Bistro, Parkhurst Dining Services, a provider of contract-dining services to businesses, universities and cultural centers; and CURA Hospitality, which offers contract dining and management services for senior living communities. Across its dining brands, the Eat’n Park Hospitality Group employs more than 9,000 team members in seven northeastern and Mid-Atlantic States.
SOURCE Eat’n Park Restaurants