TLC.com Panera Bread Sandwich Showdown Contest

Whether you are a sandwich enthusiast, amateur chef or a fan of culinary creativity, if you think that you have a great sandwich recipe to share, then this is the right time for you. The Panera Bread Co. is offering the Sandwich Showdown 2012 Contest in which you can test your sandwich-making skills by creating your own sandwich from the given ingredients. The most creative new sandwich maker will get $10,000 and its creation will be aided in Panera restaurants. So, be hurry and enter in the contest to win cash and to include your own created sandwich in the U.S.’s best sandwich.

Limit: Participants are able to enter once daily, throughout the promotional period. The minimum age to enter this Sweepstakes is 18 years old.

To participate in the Sweepstakes, go to www.tlc.com/Panera and hit the “Create a sandwich” button. Create your own sandwich using the online sandwich-builder tool. You can use maximum 20 ingredients listed on the online sandwich builder. Then, name your sandwich, write story behind the sandwich (less than 500 characters) and hit the “Finish: button.

Between 8th October and 15th October, promotional partner and its judges will select 100 finalists from all the submitted entries on basis of Judging Criteria: 75%Taste appeal, 5% Story Behind the Sandwich, 15% Creativity of recipe and 5% ability to recreate the sandwich at Panera Bread® bakery-cafes. After that, sponsor and judges will choose only 20 finalists from these 100 finalists and provide scores on the basis of same Judging Criteria.

From 22nd October to 11th November, the photographs of these 20 finalists will be posted on www.tlc.com/Panera for public voting. Voters can vote one finalist per day per IP address. Finalists can also vote for themselves. The finalists with the highest votes will become the Grand Prize Winner.

The Grand Prize Winner will be declared on 12th November, 2012.

The Grand Prize Winner will get 10,000.00 USD in cash, Panera Bread gift cards totaling $500.00, and one Bagels for a Year gift Certificate. Also, the sandwich created by the winner will be included in the Sponsor’s menu and offered for sale from April 2013.

Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Finalists will get $1,000.00 cash along with one Panera Bread gift card in the amount of $150.00. The remaining 15 Finalists will get one Panera Bread gift card in the amount of $150.00.