MultiVu Video Feed: Ten Kid Chef Finalists Compete in National Kids' Cook-Off to See Who Will Be Crowned Fourth Annual Gourmet Burger Champ

Winning burger chosen from more than 11,000 recipe entries to be sold nationally to benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

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NEWS: Robin Miller, Host of the Food Network's "Quick Fix Meals with Robin Miller," Will Help Select the New Burger Champ as the Celebrity Judge for the Red Robin Kids' Cook-Off

FORMAT: B-roll and Soundbites

STORY SUMMARY:

Get ready, burger lovers, there's a new gourmet burger champion on the horizon! The winning gourmet burger - chosen from more than 11,000 recipe entries from kids ages six to 12 nationwide - will be sold in Red Robin® restaurants in summer 2010 to benefit the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children® (NCMEC) and also featured in a cookbook available for free online at www.redrobin.com.

The top 10 burgers that will be judged during the Dec. 3 Championship were selected based on their combination of ingredients, fun flavors and compelling 100-word statements from the kid chefs that described why their burger deserves to win.

The top 10 kid finalists are:

    --  Tanner Burns, Ashville, OH: "The Firey Clucker"
    --  Emma Downing, Chillicothe, OH: "Flamin' Crispy Chicken Burger"
    --  Daphney Thomas, Hillsboro, OR: "A DoubleDilly of a Burger"
    --  Nicolas Pacific, Indio, CA: "Creamy Chicken Caesar Salad Sandwich"
    --  Gabriel Byrne, Topeka, KS: "Seven Wonders Burger"
    --  Tyler Heppner, Mentor, OH: "Awesome Cordon Blue Burger"
    --  Mike Smyth Jr., New Lenox, IL: "Bacon Hot Popper Burger"
    --  Rhiannon Potter, Laceys Spring, AL: "Kickin' Cordon Bleu Chicken
        Sandwich"
    --  Randi Lenard, Rifle, CO: "Chili Lime Chicken Roll"
    --  Emma Potts, Bonney Lake, WA: "Spicy Honey Glazed Bacon Burger"

The grand-prize-winning burger sales from the third annual Kids' Cook-Off resulted in a donation of more than $65,000 to NCMEC to support child safety initiatives. Since the Cook-Off was created in 2006, Red Robin has donated more than $290,000 to NCMEC through the Cook-Off and other Red Robin® restaurant programs.

SOUNDBITES:

    --  Grand-prize-winning kid burger champ
    --  Robin Miller, Food Network host
    --  Robbie Callaway, NCMEC co-founder
    --  Susan Lintonsmith, Red Robin Chief Marketing Officer

B-ROLL INCLUDES: 10 kid chefs preparing their gourmet burgers in an 'Iron Chef'-like competition for a panel of VIP judges, including the Food Network's Robin Miller

VIDEO PROVIDED BY: Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.

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/PRNewswire -- Dec. 2/

SOURCE Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.

Released December 2, 2009