Want to win your very own restaurant? Nicole Josh, Owner of Benjamin’s International Cafe is running a contest to win her restaurant in Gibsons, on the Sunshine Coast BC Canada.

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CBC News Vancouver and The Vancouver Province have both done stores on this quirky contest. See the links below…

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CBC NEWS Posted: Sep 13, 2011
A Gibsons, B.C., woman has put up her restaurant as the prize in a limerick contest with an entry fee of $300, the CBC’s Bob Nixon reports.

Have you ever dreamed of owing your own restaurant? well now you can.
A good limerick is not an easy feat. The first two lines come easy enough, but the next aren’t quite so easy. We’ll make it worth your while.

The prizes, you ask?

How about a first-prize of of winning Benjamin’s Café, a full service, on the sunshine coast (Gibsons), licensed, 80-seat restaurant, training support and all… fixtures included (turn key). Second prize $40,000 cash, third prize $10,000 cash. Enough to make it worthwhile?

You’ve all heard limericks at one time or another; I’m sure we all learned the dirty ones when we were ten. Now it is time to put those memories to work.

Here are the rules:
Keep in mind, a limerick has to fit a certain rhythmic meter and rhyme. For example:
A: What is a limerick, Mother?
A: It’s a form of verse, said brother
B: In which lines one and two
B: Rhyme with five when it’s through
A: And three and four always rhyme with each other

The rules: Entry fee per limerick $300 .00. Only 1000 entries (the first 1000) will be eligible and considered. All entries must be original. They must be related to food. They must be reasonably clean and in good taste. A panel of local dignitaries will judge the winners.

So, for the price of dinner for 2 and hockey game tickets for 2, you and or significant other can win or own established restaurant and bar.

Knock yourselves out! Contest closes Nov 30, 2011

Winner will be responsible for all hydro, liquor, lawyers’ and all other transfers. Winner must be 19 years of age or older. 1000 entries to be sold, less all entries will be reimbursed.

Mail or drop off entries @ Benjamin’s Café, Unit 3, 900 Gibson’s Way, Gibsons, BC, V0N 1V0. Ph 604-886-1646

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 By Susan Lazaruk, The Province September 8, 2011

 

In Gibsons a cafe near the park

After 16 years has left quite a mark

The owners now offer a sale

but first a limerick you must nail

Then it’ll go for a song and a lark

Rather than post a prosaic for-sale sign when they decided to sell Benjamin’s Cafe in Gibsons, Nicole Josh and her business partner got a little creative and came up with a skill-testing question of sorts to decide who could “win” the 80-seat eatery.

A well-crafted limerick around a food theme, plus a $300 entry fee, is all that’s needed to have a shot at owning the turnkey, licensed restaurant.

Josh, who has a Facebook page for the contest, said she came up with the idea after her business partner suggested holding a lottery to pass on the restaurant to the next owner.

“Then I came up with the idea of having the limerick so it’s not a game of chance,” said Josh, who has owned and worked at the café for 16 years.

The minimum and maximum number of entries is 1,000, meaning the contest will be cut off at 1,000, or if they receive fewer than 1,000 entries by the closing date of Nov. 30, all the hopefuls will be refunded their money. There’s a second-place prize of $40,000 and a third prize of $10,000 cash.

The rhymes must be in limerick style, original, related to food, reasonably “clean” and in good taste.

Among the judges for the contest, which is restricted to those 19 or older, will be the mayor of Gibsons, a retired schoolteacher/writer and a singer/songwriter, said Josh.

Josh, who runs the business and cooks one day a week, said she’s ready for something new.

The concept’s been tried before. In 2009, Tolly’s Restaurant in Oakland, Ore., was offered up in an essay contest.

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What a totally quirky contest! Love it…  Congrats to my friend Nicole Josh for all her hard work over the years bringing Gibsons such a great quality and affordable restaurant.

It’s Always A Good Day on the Sunshine Coast! Duane Burnett

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