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Omni Giant Pancake Eating Contest at Charlie Parkers Springfield IL
By Kathy at Omni | August 28, 2008
The entire staff from Omni Communications Group met at Charlie Parker’s Diner in Springfield, Illinois on August 27, 2008 for the highly anticipated team building exercise of the month: a pancake eating contest with the famous Charlie Parker’s giant pancake. Turns out the staff at Omni is a bunch of pancake lovers up for the challenge. Each giant pancake is approximately 16 inches in diameter and weighs a little over a pound at 18 ounces. (think pizza pancake) The goal of the contest was to see who could eat all or the most of TWO GIANT PANCAKES weighing roughly two and a quarter pounds total.Â
         
After 17 minutes and 10 seconds, time was called on the competition as all of the contestants were exhausted and unable to continue; no one was able to eat the entire two stack of giant pancakes. But the winner (by a long shot) securing the gold medal for giant pancake eating was awarded to . . . . . . drum roll please . . . . . . Kathy!  Second place and a silver medal was awarded to Susan, and the third place bronze medal went to Dennis.  There was a cheater in the competition who was eliminated from receiving any recognition whatsoever (name withheld to protect identity). All in all, it was a great time, good food and another successful team building exercise to boost the Omni team’s energy, creativity and spirits!Â
  
    
The Omni pancake eating contest has been well documented by video, and you can take a look here:
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August 29th, 2008 at 6:53 am
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