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Two coffee shops offered Ottawa customers a chance to enter the Powerball lottery Wednesday. But customers had to enter a raffle first.
Personal Service Coffee shops in Hazeldean Mall in Kanata and on Centrum Boulevard in Orléans launched the offer Tuesday.
“You come in and purchase a box of 24 K-Cups, and we’ll give you a ballot,” said manager Carolyn Papatzinas at the Kanata location.
The ballots went into a draw set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 winners per coffee shop of that draw win a Powerball ticket.
So far the promotion is paying for itself nicely by boosting business.
Papatzinas said dozens of customers had bought 24 cups at a time as word of the offer spread.
“I’ve had people calling in here who don’t even shop in here, to ask us about it. And then they come in,” she said.
“Everybody seems pretty excited about it. It’s drawing people in for sure.” Staff at the Centrum Boulevard also had 10 Powerball tickets, and estimated some 50 people had entered the raffle for them by mid-afternoon Wednesday.
Personal Service does regular monthly raffles, but the stakes are usually lower: The winner gets one minute to run around picking up free K-Cups of coffee.
Papatzinas was glad to escape the madness of a Toronto bakery that offered Powerball tickets to attract customers. It drew a big crowd that arrived before sunrise, and one man waiting in line smashed the bakery window.
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Personal Service Coffee shops in Hazeldean Mall in Kanata and on Centrum Boulevard in Orléans launched the offer Tuesday.
“You come in and purchase a box of 24 K-Cups, and we’ll give you a ballot,” said manager Carolyn Papatzinas at the Kanata location.
The ballots went into a draw set for 6 p.m. Wednesday, and 10 winners per coffee shop of that draw win a Powerball ticket.
So far the promotion is paying for itself nicely by boosting business.
Papatzinas said dozens of customers had bought 24 cups at a time as word of the offer spread.
“I’ve had people calling in here who don’t even shop in here, to ask us about it. And then they come in,” she said.
“Everybody seems pretty excited about it. It’s drawing people in for sure.” Staff at the Centrum Boulevard also had 10 Powerball tickets, and estimated some 50 people had entered the raffle for them by mid-afternoon Wednesday.
Personal Service does regular monthly raffles, but the stakes are usually lower: The winner gets one minute to run around picking up free K-Cups of coffee.
Papatzinas was glad to escape the madness of a Toronto bakery that offered Powerball tickets to attract customers. It drew a big crowd that arrived before sunrise, and one man waiting in line smashed the bakery window.
tspears@ottawacitizen.com
twitter.com/TomSpears1
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