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title: "Smoke’s Poutinerie Presents Smoke-A-Palooza Event Celebrating Fans & Raising Money for Charity"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/daf6b578-b578-4107-a4e2-c06c022d3c81
source: "Franchising.com"
original_url: https://www.franchising.com/news/20240716_smokes_poutinerie_presents_smokeapalooza_event_celebrating_fans__raising_mo.html
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
published: 2024-07-16T12:00:00.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T22:32:39.786Z
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# Smoke’s Poutinerie Presents Smoke-A-Palooza Event Celebrating Fans & Raising Money for Charity

**TL;DR:** Smoke’s Poutinerie is hosting Smoke-A-Palooza, a free event in Toronto's Yonge-Dundas Square, featuring the World Poutine Eating Championship and a CEO challenge to raise money for charity. The event will include music, eating competitions, and other activities.

*originally published in Franchising.com on 2024-07-16. [Read the original](https://www.franchising.com/news/20240716_smokes_poutinerie_presents_smokeapalooza_event_celebrating_fans__raising_mo.html).*

## Story

TORONTO - This summer, Smoke’s Poutinerie is bringing the Poutine Powerhouse Party in Canada to Toronto’s Yonge-Dundas Square. Smoke- A-Palooza will take place on Saturday August 10, 2024, 11am-11pm; this free event will offer the high-energy vibes of a music fest with the heartfelt mission of charity.

An event highlight, the World Poutine Eating Championship (WPEC) is celebrating its Poutine Eating Competition and Professional Eating Competition in the world. This highly anticipated event, sanctioned by Major League Eating (MLE) is making an Epic comeback for the first time since 2019, when Joey “Jaws” Chestnut set the World Record of 28 Pounds of Poutine consumed in 10min!

This year’s lineup includes 5 of the top 10 ranked eaters in the world, #2-ranked Patrick Bertoletti, just back from his first place win at Coney Island, #3 Geoffrey Esper, #1 in Australia ranked #4 in the world, James Webb, #6 Nick Wehry, #1 in Canada ranked #10 in the world, Darrien Thomas and other top-ranked eaters.

The Ryan Smolkin Memorial CEO Challenge in support of We Care will also be featured with an impressive assembly of Canada’s business leaders, joining together in a spirited 2-min Poutine Eating Competition to raise money to send children with disabilities to fully accessible summer camps.

Also, featured in this 12-hour Fan-Centric Party is 360min of 80s Rock n’ Roll with Tribute Bands, Dust N’ Bones (Guns N’ Roses Tribute), 80s Gone Wild (Best of the 80s Tribute), Sheer Heart Attack (Queen Tribute) and Destroyer Canada (KISS Tribute), as well as, daredevil acts, roaming entertainers and many other ROCKIN’ activations, games, prizes, live experiences and selfie stations... did someone say DeLorean Time Machine?! A beverage garden and of course, Free Poutine.

## Entities

- Franchising.com (publication)
- QSR (sector)
- charity event (topic)
- Toronto (location)
- Smoke's Poutinerie (company)
- event hosting (topic)
- music festival (topic)
- Ryan Smolkin (person)
- eating competition (topic)
- Major League Eating (company)
- Yonge-Dundas Square (location)
- Joey "Jaws" Chestnut (person)

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Originally reported by Franchising.com (https://www.franchising.com/news/20240716_smokes_poutinerie_presents_smokeapalooza_event_celebrating_fans__raising_mo.html). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/daf6b578-b578-4107-a4e2-c06c022d3c81).