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| - When I was in high school, I had a crush on a girl in my Calculus class. Every day she brought a freshly-clipped copy of the newspaper's crossword puzzle and would work on it while our teacher droned on about derivatives. To get noticed by her, I started bringing the crossword puzzle to class too. Soon, we started working on the puzzles together, passing the paper back and forth while writing notes to each other in the margins about our guesses for clues. Although she never developed any romantic feelings towards me, I did become extremely good at crossword puzzles.
Up until last week, that talent had mostly just sat on the shelf of my brain, only used to occupy time on boring airplane flights. However, last Thursday my sister and her boyfriend took me to Franktuary were I was finally able to put my skills to good use on their weekly Crossword Challenge.
Every Thursday (starting at 7 pm), Franktuary issues two crossword puzzles to every table. If you finish the easy crossword in 15 minutes or less, you get 20% off of your meal. 10% for finishing in 45 minutes. If you finish the hard puzzle at all, you get 30% off. You can even work as a team. No phones allowed though!
We totally dominated the easy puzzle in 14 minutes for the 20% discount. We barely finished a quarter of the hard puzzle though. At any rate, I had a ton of fun doing the puzzle and we saved $9 on our meal. Win-win.
Although the crossword puzzling is enough to get five stars from me, the food was actually very good too. I had the Chicago Imposter hot dog and all of the ingredients were really flavorful. I especially enjoyed the sweet relish. The fries I ordered with my hot dog were great too.
Overall, we were all pretty impressed with the food. The service was a little slow, but I like to think they were just giving us more time to work on the crossword. Next time I am in Pittsburgh, I will definitely return.
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