Eating challenges offering cash rewards

March 29, 2008 at 5:14 pm by ojrifkin · More posts about:Eating Challenges

A list of eating challenges which reportedly offer cash prizes if successfully completed follows:

$1000 Bunda’s Big V8 (prize in Canadian $) Bubi’s Awesome Eats Windsor, ON, Canada
$1000 Monster Manhattan Style Pizza Challenge Talayna’s Chesterfield, MO
$500 Pointersaurus Pizza Pointer’s Delivery Richmond Heights, MO
$500 Polito’s Monster Pizza Contest Polito’s Pizza Stevens Point, WI
$500 40 inch pizza challenge The Pizza Machine Springfield, IL
$500 Wisconsin’s Largest Pizza Contest Pizza Shuttle Milwaukee, WI
$500 Pointersaurus challenge Pointer’s Pizza St. Louis, MO
$400 Stuffed Hurricane Pizza Challenge Vinny’s Pizza Dekalb County, IL
$250 Pauliesaurus Rex Paulie’s Pizza New Brunswick, NJ
$250 30 Inch Pizza Pizza Boys Kenai, AK
$200 28 inch pizza challenge Roma’s Pizza Augusta, GA
$200 32 Inch Pizza Eating Challenge Paventi’s Pizzeria Charlotte, NC
$200 Monster Burger Challenge Red Owl Sports Grill Tempe, AZ
$150 28 inch pizza challenge Gourmet 52 Pizzeria & Cafe East Fishkill, NY
$100 Frankenstein Burger Stan’s Wagon Wheel Midland, MI
$100 Big Kahuna Burger Pancho and Lefty’s Hare, TX
$100 5 Pound Hamburger Challenge J.R. Hohlier Sports Pub Indianapolis, IN
$100 Grand Sicilian Pizza Beau Jo’s Pizza 9 Colorado locations, CO

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  1. Anonymous said

    March 29, 2008 @ 6:46 pm

    Thanks OJ now I have a valid excuse to go to Alaska.

  2. FuriousPete said

    March 29, 2008 @ 11:09 pm

    I’m gonna go for the Bunda’s Big V8 Challenge shorlty 🙂

  3. anonymous said

    March 30, 2008 @ 6:50 am

    These challenges are a gimmick. They know that 75percent of the ones that try it fail it so thats why they put up these cash awards knowing its nearly impossible to complete it. Maybe Chestnut Bertoletti or a very select few can complete the job. Another ripoff is this black rock tavern 6lb burger . in nyack ny . Its more like 9lbs with all the toppings if you ask me. Rubber gut was able to do it and all she got was a free lunch out of it.

  4. Dustin said

    October 21, 2010 @ 3:38 am

    I live in Augusta GA and looked up the Romas 28 inch pizza challange that I could definetly do. I was really looking forward to a free 28inch pizza and $1000 but they said they stopped doing it 🙁

  5. Stallion Italian said (Registered August 27, 2010)

    October 21, 2010 @ 10:18 am

    It is good to know which challenges offer cash (reportedly via OJ) versus not. The challenges are always to bring business to the places which offer them, whatever the prizes, free meal or the satisfaction of completion and a photo or one’s name. There is no regulation for these challenges, so this is a great place to share information. Rubber Gut? Great name.

  6. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 21, 2010 @ 10:28 am

    OJ, you forgot the Pancake Challenge in Seiad Valley, Ca, where the prize is $20 cash, in addition to a free meal:

    http://eatfeats.com/query.php?_table=contests&id=2250

  7. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 21, 2010 @ 10:31 am

    I also thought there was a pizza challenge in NY (Long Island?) or maybe CT that offered $500, similar to the Pointerseaurus?? Maybe it has changed since?

  8. stephanie_wu said (Registered August 17, 2010)

    October 21, 2010 @ 10:40 am

    OJ: also there is the Belly Buster Pizza challenge at Pizza Party in Santa Clara, where the prize is $100 if you beat Ben Monson’s record time of 6:05:

    http://stephaniesamerica.com/belly-buster-challenge.html#ben-monson

    http://stephaniesamerica.com/pics-competitive%20eating-publish/Pizza%20Party/2010-Aug/DSCF0068-95.jpg

  9. A. Nonymous said

    October 21, 2010 @ 11:37 am

    It’s an old list. Look at the date of the original post! If OJ scanned the database today, the challenges you mentioned would be on the list.

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