Already, quick-serve restaurant companies are gearing up for the holidays with special promotions and charity programs. Here are just a couple that launched November 1:

Little Caesars and Hasbro are teaming up to offer the "Bring Home Fun for the Holidays with Little Caesars and Hasbro Games" promotion nationwide. Today through December 31, 2006, a national online sweepstakes will run in conjunction with local in-store prize drawings at participating locations.

Visit this page to enter for a chance to win a grand-prize vacation for four to any Beaches Jamaica Resorts, with air travel provided by Air Jamaica. Other prizes include $500 in Hasbro Games and online shopping sprees, and Little Caesars Gift Certificates. The online sweepstakes runs from November 1 through December 31, 2006.

Visit any participating Little Caesars store to get an individual Family Game Bounceback (print piece applied to the pizza box top) while quantities last. Along with this print piece version of popular Hasbro games—Memory, Scrabble Jr., Trivial Pursuit for Kids, and Perfection—the bouncebacks include a coupon for 10 percent off Hasbro Games online.

Also, check your local Little Caesars for prize drawings. One winner from each restaurant will receive a Family Fun Pack that includes a Hasbro Games Prize Pack (Clue, Trivial Pursuit for Kids, Boggle, and Don't Break the Ice) and a Little Caesars Pizza Party.
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Here's a chance to feed the family and do some good work at the same time. The Steak n Shake Company is partnering for the fourth year with America's Second Harvest, the nation's largest network of food banks, to deliver Steakburger patties to the hungry this holiday season.

Beginning November 1, for every $5 in TakHomACard gift cards purchased, Steak n Shake will donate one Steakburger patty to one of the more than 70 of America's Second Harvest food banks. The program runs through December 25, 2006.

Last year, more than 1 million Steakburger patties were delivered to food banks; 75 percent of those donations went to people affected by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.

While you're there, consider treating yourself—and the kids, if they've been nice, not naughty—to one of Steak n Shake seasonal milk shakes: Egg Nog, Dark Chocolate and White Chocolate. Personally, I'm going for the Egg Nog. Mmmm. These flavors are available through December 25.