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Like many fan favorite foods, bacon has its own holiday. This Saturday many restaurants are celebrating International Bacon Day, pushing their porky offerings top customers eager to celebrate.
Wing Zone's best-selling burgers, the Smokehouse and the monstrous, stacked "Widowmaker" both feature crispy bacon. The "Widowmaker" is four patties, four slices of cheese and four slices of bacon. And for the Wing Zone fans, it's the perfect way to celebrate the food holiday.
“Up until this year … I wasn’t aware that there was a National Bacon Day. I’m not surprised by any stretch; I think it deserves to be a true national holiday that gets a little bit more recognition,” says Wing Zone CMO Dan Corrigan.
With the rise of the 'better burger' segment Wing Zone has invested in higher quality ingredients to top them with too, including applewood smoked bacon.
Their wings even got the bacon treatment with the first Flavor Face-off in-store offerings: BBQ Bacon Nirvana, which Corrigan says could make a reappearance.
“People either loved or hated it. Some stores sold really well and others not so much,” he says. “It was another niche that we will probably look to bring back at some point if it’s something that our fans are still craving.”
 
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Nick Powills, CFE, founded No Limit Agency in 2008 and serves as Chief Brand Strategist for the Chicago-based firm. No Limit is a full-service communications agency that establishes and elevates brands by bridging Public Relations, Social Media, Marketing, Advertising, Digital, and a lot of creativity, to best strategize well-rounded and successful campaigns for 50+ global franchise brands. By presenting visionary ideas and building real relationships, No Limit is able to create effective media branding strategies to help companies grow. Nick currently leads a staff of writers, media strategists, designers, social media experts and digital producers in an office think-tank where brands are humanized for strong, compelling media stories. Prior to starting No Limit at the age of 27, Nick spent four years working at a franchise PR agency where he mastered the art of building rapport with media outlets and creating newsworthy pitches for earned media placements. He holds a Bachelor of Journalism from Drake University in Iowa.

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