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Oct 15, 2026
JR Afternoon with Ryan Ermanni ~ Full Show ~ October 15, 2026
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21:26Jeff RinkeGUEST
We started out pretty small, and, um, every year we got more and more creative, and we started coming up with different ideas of selling more things, uh, you know, like a, a pink ribbon magnet for your car, and then we did pink bracelets, and we've, we've done just about anything that you can think of.
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21:44Jeff RinkeGUEST
Uh, right now we sell a, a pizza slice card that you can put, write your name on when you make a donation, and you can put it up on the wall in our lobbies of our stores.

Jamie EdmondsHOST
So you have franchisees when it comes to Hungry Howie's, so there had to be buy-in with them for this, right?
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22:02Jeff RinkeGUEST
We're 100% franchise-owned and -operated, so, uh, n- we don't have any corporate-owned stores.
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22:08Jeff RinkeGUEST
Uh, we have stores that are owned by officers of, of the corporation, but, uh, uh, we don't ...
Hungry Howies' Support for Breast Cancer Awareness!
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2:18Jeff RinkeGUEST
We started out pretty small, and, um, every year we got more and more creative, and we started coming up with different ideas of selling more things, uh, you know, like a, a pink ribbon magnet for your car, and then we did pink bracelets, and we've, we've done just about anything that you can think of.
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2:36Jeff RinkeGUEST
Uh, right now we sell a, a pizza slice card that you can put, write your name on when you make a donation, and you can put it up on the wall in our lobbies of our stores.

Jamie EdmondsHOST
So d- you have franchisees when it comes to Hungry Howie's, so there had to be buy-in with them for this, right?
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2:54Jeff RinkeGUEST
We're 100% franchise owned and operated, so, uh, n- we don't have any corporate-owned stores.
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3:00Jeff RinkeGUEST
Uh, we have stores that are owned by officers of, of the corporation, but, uh, uh, w- we don't...
Jamie Edmonds & Lauren Crocker at SAY Detroit Family Health Clinic
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20:19Jeff RinkeGUEST
Exactly, and I found myself on the soup aisle, and I saw the iconic Campbell's soup can, and they were all pink, and I thought to myself, what a great idea that is, and I I lost a cousin to breast cancer and my sister-in-law has breast cancer as we speak.
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20:41Jeff RinkeGUEST
But I went back to the office and I called up our box company and I said, can you make our boxes pink? He goes, sure, I'll mock one up for you.
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20:50Jeff RinkeGUEST
And he produced one and I had it sitting on my credenza for probably about six months.
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20:55Jeff RinkeGUEST
And we were hiring a new ad agency at the time, and they were in my office, and they were like, what's with the pink pizza box? And I said, I'm just trying to figure out how to make this work because I think it's such a great cause.

Jamie EdmondsHOST
So if people are listening, how can they help Hungry Howies help women get their mammograms?