Week of June 19, 2017

Abner's Restaurant

Abner's Restaurant named Retailer-of-the-Week

DAYTON – The Ohio Lottery is pleased to recognize Abner’s Restaurant located at 2424 E. 3^rd Street in Dayton as Retailer-of-the-Week for the week of June 19, 2017.
 
Abner’s Restaurant is a nostalgic restaurant that has been selling Ohio Lottery tickets for 25 years. The restaurant is owned by Christos Tsamasiros, and his employees always promote Lottery with a friendly attitude. They know customers by name and have established long term friendships. Abner’s Restaurant conducts second-chance drawings on a quarterly basis and has a dedicated lottery play area.
 
Describing the restaurant as complimentary to the Lottery, Chris says it’s a fun place to socialize. Employees will ask for the sale and they are always expressing that they like to give away lottery money. Last year they sold a million dollar $500,000,000 Spectacular instant game. Abner’s Restaurant carries 47 instant games and has a weekly sales average of $7,400 for instant and on-line games.
 
Abner’s Restaurant will be recognized on Cash Explosion®, the Ohio Lottery’s TV game show, on June 24, 2017.  Montgomery County residents can tune into Cash Explosion® on WHIO CBS Channel 7 in Dayton.  The Cash Explosion show is carried on 13 stations across the state every Saturday at 7:30 p.m.
 
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