California Pizza Kitchen is offering a new promotion to get customers to try its new menu items.

With the CPK Adventure Card, customers will receive 20 percent off new menu items. These items include four types of pizzas and the Moroccan Chicken Salad.

The card can be used over and over between now and Sept. 15, and can be used for both dine-in and carry out, said spokeswoman Allison Perkins.

The only way to sign up for the card is to visit www.cpk.com/card, Perkins said. After signing up online, the card will be delivered in the mail.

CPK in Bakersfield is at 10150 Stockdale Highway.

Yep, Long John Silver's is giving away free Baja Fish Tacos on Tuesday, July 14 from opening until 2:30 p.m.

You can grab one of the new tacos in stores or at the drive-through window, the company's press release says.

One per customer!

The tacos normally run 99 cents apiece.

In honor of its 82nd anniversary, participating 7-Eleven stores are giving away free Slurpees on Saturday, 7/11 (get it?)

A random phone survey of Bakersfield locations found that most are participating; however some folks manning the phones had no idea what the caller was talking about, so proceed at your own risk.

The corporate-issued cups are 7.11-ounces. The drinks are free while supplies last.

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In the ‘moo’d for a free meal? As part of Chick-fil-A’s fifth annual Cow Appreciation Day celebration, the restaurant at 5260 Stockdale Highway is offering a free meal (breakfast, lunch or dinner) to any customer who visits fully dressed as a cow on Friday. 

Those who go all out will receive an entrée of choice, a side item and a beverage.

For those who are too timid to wear full cow costumes, the restaurant will award a complimentary entrée to customers partially dressed in cow attire, such as a cow-spotted scarf, purse, hat or other accessory.

Chick-fil-A has a Web site dedicated to the occasion, cowappreciationday.com.

Mesa Marin Chevron, 11101 Highway 178, will sell regular unleaded gas for 99 cents from 3 to 5 p.m. Friday to the first 100 customers to roll in.

There will be a 10-gallon limit per car.

The new Groove 99.3 will be there with music and giveaways, and Ralph Bailey, of 1560 KNZR, will broadcast his show live inside Mesa Marin Chevron.

— Buckley Broadcasting media release

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Here's a press release straight from the folks at Wienerschnitzel:

July is both NATIONAL HOT DOG MONTH and NATIONAL ICE CREAM MONTH – so, to commemorate both, Wienerschnitzel is giving away a FREE Original Chili Dog or FREE Tastee Freez Small Cone on July 14 from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. at all participating Bakersfield locations.
 
“Free Chili Dog or Small Cone Day” is an annual Wienerschnitzel celebration honoring America’s most favorite foods. With 345 stores in eight states, Wienerschnitzel is The World’s Largest Hot Dog Chain® (and the official hot dog of the Bakersfield Blaze).

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Bored, restless kids driving you crazy?

Take them to the movies for free courtesy of Regal Entertainment Group.

The parent company of  Edwards Bakersfield 14 at The Marketplace is hosting the Free Family Film Festival, which began June 2 and continues through July 30.

A selection of free G- and PG-rated movies will be shown 10 a.m. on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9000 Ming Ave. The free movies are an annual community service Regal offers to children out of school for the summer.

Get there early because seating capacity is limited.

Sponsors are Regal Entertainment Group, The Breeze 97.7, Groove 99.3 and Kelly 95.3, as well as Barber Honda, Apollonia Dental Center, San Joaquin Community Hospital, Gama Trucking, Christ’s Church of the Valley, Kaleo Fellowship, Koinonia Family Services, and Kern County Family Magazine.

For information, call (661) 663-3044.

 

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WHAT:      Hot Dog on a Stick is giving away free hot dogs, which it has done annually since 2006, when it launched “Free Hot Dog Day” to commemorate its 60th anniversary.

WHERE:      Hot Dog on a Stick, food court of Valley Plaza mall, 2701 Ming Ave.

WHEN:      5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Monday, June 15.

Limit one per person.

 

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Here's a CALM news release:

Mothers and grandmothers, May 10 truly is your day at the California Living Museum (CALM), where you will be admitted for Mother’s Day at half price and have a chance to win a free CALM Family Membership, too. CALM, located between Lake Ming and Hart Park on Alfred Harrell Highway in northeast Bakersfield, will be open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Bring the whole family.

Be sure to browse through CALM’s gift store where you will find special nature-related items that we are sure Mom will love.

“Spring is an especially beautiful time of year at CALM,” said Director Tom Anspach. “Pack a picnic lunch, bring the whole family and enjoy the day.”     

We never forget good old Dad (and Grandpa, too). So, we are extending the same offer to them on Father’s Day, June 21!

For more information, call CALM at (661) 872-2256 or visit the Web site.

CALM is a combination zoo, botanical garden and natural history museum, which for 26 years has provided residence for native animals that because of injury or abandonment can no longer survive on their own in the wild.

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If only for your neighbors' sake, make it look like a chore if you decide to act on McDonald's latest offer for free specialty coffee. Because, apparently, that's what got us this second round of McCafes on the house.

Come May 1, the fast food chain is swinging through Bakersfield with a special van and collapsible outdoor cafe, giving away lattes, iced lattes, cappuccinos and mochas. They're the same drinks the chain passed out free around Bakersfield early last year, another example of Bakersfield's test-marketing expertise.

We did such good, hard work quaffing those espresso drinks that the company wants to thank us. And what better way than giving us more of the same?

So on the morning of May 1, the Mobile McCafe is setting up shop at Cal State Bakersfield. Then, between 5 and 8 p.m., the van will be serving up coffee at 19th Street near H Street as part of the Downtown Business Association's First Friday event. The next day, on May 2, the van will be stationed at Sam Lynn Ballpark from 8 a.m. to noon for the Northwest Baseball League Tournament.

Just don't look like you're enjoying it, or the company may get the idea we'd do this for free.