Max & Erma's offers cookies at 100% off | Restaurants

COLUMBUS, OH - October is National Cookie Month, but Max & Erma’s in Cincinnati has already started celebrating. Starting this past evening and every Wednesday until an unknown date in the future, guests can enjoy free chocolate chip cookies. The special will end when they get tired of baking or run out of cookie dough; Max & Erma’s goal is to give away one million cookies by the end of the year. 

Guests who purchase any food item at participating restaurants, including appetizers, salads, sandwiches, entrees and desserts, will receive two of Erma’s famous chocolate chip cookies for free. Max & Erma’s started Free Cookie Wednesdays in Pittsburgh in January. The idea was so successful that it is being expanded to company-owned restaurants in 10 more cities. 

“Guests tell us that Erma’s Fresh-baked Cookies really are special, but we had no idea that when we started giving them away on Wednesdays, people would get so excited,” said Steve Weis, Max & Erma’s vice president of operations. “It’s amazing how a free cookie, hot out of the oven, can put a smile on anybody’s face.”  Weis says some Pittsburgh restaurants have been giving away nearly 4,000 cookies a day. 

Max & Erma's is giving away cookies in Fairfield Township, Sharonville, Norwood, Union Township, Crestview hills, and at Cincinnati Northern Kentucky International Airport, as well as 10 other cities around the northeastern U.S. 

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