Overview

Aloha and welcome to the first annual “Food Hunt for Charity” challange! This fun and exciting food scavenger hunt across the island of Oahu will take you from the streets of Honolulu to the beautiful beaches of the North Shore! Join in on the fun and help raise monies and awareness for the Lanakila Meals on Wheels program!

To participate in the challenge simply head on over to the FOOD HUNT FOR CHARITY LIST on Foodspotting and click the orange “TAKE THE CHALLENGE” button on the right side to join in (only name and email required to register). You can also find a printable version of the list here: http://www.foodspotting.com/guides/87.print. The printable list is a convenient way to take the hunt on the road, but remember you must upload you photos to Foodspotting for credit!

Foodspotting also has a free mobile app available for participants with iPhones. Here is a link to that app for more info: http://www.foodspotting.com/iphone/

Hunt around the island for the 50 specified foods from our 50 specific vendors and take photos of your culinary finds! As you work your way through all 50 foods be sure to upload your pictures to your Foodspotting list to keep track of your progress!

Head on over to our good friends at Hawaii Deals & Freebies for a list of discount at some of the food hunt spots! Visit their special listing of deals at http://hawaiideals.kweblydesigns.com/foodhuntdeals

This challenge will run for 90 days from May 1, 2010 to July 31, 2010. The first participant to complete all 50 foods on their list will be our grand prize winner and win a new Canon Powershot A490 Camera and a $100 Gift Card to Roy’s! Additionally more prizes will be given out during the contest period until the end of the challenge! Check out prize winners so far by going to our “Food Hunt BIG EATERS” page.

LocoKineGrindz.com will also be participating in the hunt under the account name “Locokinegrindz” just to keep up the competitive atmosphere! We will not be qualified for prizes but anyone ahead of us at certain time intervals will qualify for a special prize pool awarded by random drawing!

As participants work their way through the list, LocoKineGrindz.com and other “Food Hunt for Charity” sponsors will be making donations to Lanakila Meals on Wheels! The donation benchmarks are:

• $10 donated for each participant who completes 10 out of 50
• $50 donated for each participant who completes 30 out of 50
• $100 donated for each participant who completes 50 out of 50

Check out the LocoKineGrindz.com and Lanakila Meals on Wheels on SUNRISE talking about the “Food Hunt for Charity”!

Donations will continue until our “donation pool” has been maxed out! The “Food Hunt for Charity” continues to seek additional sponsors to help donate money to Lanakila Meals on Wheels! If you are interested in becoming a sponsor please contact us at dale@locokinegrindz.com!

If you have any questions please feel free to email them to me at dale@locokinegrindz.com and I’ll answer them as quickly as possible!

So please join in and help support a great cause while enjoying delicious grinds around the island!

Mahalo to our event sponsors:

Official Contest Rules

• The contest will last for a period of 90 days from the official start date of May 1, 2010.
• At the end each 30 day period (30, 60, 90) the challenger with the most completed list to date will receive a $50 gift card to Big City Diner.
• The first challenger to grind all 50 foods will receive a Canon Powershot A490 camera and a $100 gift card to Roy’s Restaurant.
• Subsequent challengers who grind all 50 foods will receive a $50 gift card to Big City Diner up to 5th place. Random prizes will also be given away throughout the challenge.
• To log that you’ve consumed something on the list, you must take a photo of the food and “spot it” on the “LocoKineGrindz Food Hunt for Charity” guide on Foodspotting. You can do this by uploading your pictures from your computer at home or by using the Foodspotting iPhone application (http://www.foodspotting.com/iphone/).
• You must consume the specific food at the specified restaurant for it to count. Please try to include a menu or other distinguishing mark in your photo (“proof of location”) to validate that you are dining at the specified restaurant.
• This is a fun, charitable event, so we want to encourage fair competition. Please hesitate from using old photos you may have of any foods on the hunt list!
• To ensure contest fairness, random verifications may be conducted with prize winners. This will be conducted by randomly checking for proof of purchase (receipt) on various food items found on the “food hunt” guide and/or by checking for “proof of location” in submitted photos.
• Prize winners will be contacted via email used to register for Foodspotting.com. Prizes will be given out within 3 weeks of prize award announcement.
• Prizes as stated above cannot be substituted.