--- title: This Restaurant Is Giving All Law Enforcement Workers Free Meals on Wednesday description: To thank law enforcement workers, the Shoney's restaurant chain is giving all police officers free meals on Wednesday, July 27. authors: - name: Brad Tuttle role: Senior Editor url: https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/ bio: Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals. education: Columbia University School of Journalism, MS at_money_since: 2014 articles: 366 covers: - Lifestyle - Banking - Business - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Economy and Politics - Education - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Pets - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology social: - https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle - https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225 former_staff: true published: '2016-07-25T16:18:13.000Z' modified: '2024-05-16T11:29:03.000Z' section: Lifestyle tags: - deals - Food & Drink - freebies - police - pubdesk word_count: 280 canonical: https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![160725_EM_FreeFoodPolice](https://img.money.com/2016/07/160725_em_freefoodpolice.jpg) [Shoney's](http://www.shoneys.com/), the casual dining restaurant chain with well over 200 [locations](http://www.shoneys.com/locations/map/?locations=all) in the Southeast, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, is thanking law enforcement workers for all they do by offering them a free meal on Wednesday, July 27. Anyone who works in law enforcement is welcomed to breakfast, lunch, or dinner at Shoney's on the house on Wednesday, no purchase required. There is a limit to one free meal during the day for all qualifying employees, who must show ID to have their bills covered. “America’s men and women in blue need to hear ‘Thank You’ in a tangible and heartfelt way,” Shoney's CEO David Davoudpour said in a press release announcing the special promotion. The special day of free meals for law enforcement comes very soon after police officers have been specifically targeted and killed by shooters in [Dallas](https://time.com/4397911/dallas-police-shooting-victims-sniper/) and [Baton Rouge](https://time.com/4409654/baton-rouge-police-shooting/). “Shoney’s opens its doors every day so that families can enjoy fresh quality food, friendly service for an incredible value but it is never lost on us that none of that happens without our men and women of law enforcement across this great country of ours who make our communities safe," said Davoudpour. "We want to thank them and we salute them with a free meal on the house. If you’re a police officer in your hometown or are traveling to place where Shoney’s does business, please know you are welcome here. I say ‘Let’s Eat’ – for free.” ***Read Next:* All the Days During the Year When You Can Get Free Stuff** Shoney's is one of many restaurants that also has a history of providing free meals to active military and veterans on [Veterans Day](https://money.com/veterans-day-free-deals-restaurants-2015/) and Memorial Day. ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "BreadcrumbList", "@id": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/#breadcrumb", "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "name": "Home", "item": "https://money.com" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "name": "Lifestyle", "item": "https://money.com/lifestyle/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "name": "Restaurants", "item": "https://money.com/restaurants/" }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 4, "name": "This Restaurant Is Giving All Law Enforcement Workers Free Meals on Wednesday" } ] }, { "@type": "WebSite", "@id": "https://money.com/#website", "url": "https://money.com", "name": "Money", "publisher": { "@id": "https://money.com/#organization" } }, { "@type": "WebPage", "@id": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/#webpage", "url": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/", "name": "This Restaurant Is Giving All Law Enforcement Workers Free Meals on Wednesday", "isPartOf": { "@id": "https://money.com/#website" }, "datePublished": "2016-07-25T16:18:13.000Z", "mainEntity": { "@id": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/" }, "inLanguage": "en-US", "breadcrumb": { "@id": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/#breadcrumb" }, "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:29:03.000Z" }, { "@type": "Article", "headline": "This Restaurant Is Giving All Law Enforcement Workers Free Meals on Wednesday", "articleSection": "Lifestyle", "image": [ { "@type": "ImageObject", "url": "https://img.money.com/2016/07/160725_em_freefoodpolice.jpg", "width": 2100, "height": 1391, "caption": "160725_EM_FreeFoodPolice" } ], "author": [ { "@type": "Person", "name": "Brad Tuttle", "url": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/", "@id": "https://money.com/author/brad-tuttle/#author", "description": "Brad Tuttle is a former senior editor at Money with over 10 years’ experience covering a vast number of personal finance topics, including careers, cars, travel, budgeting, investing, insurance, credit cards, consumer psychology, real estate, banking, and shopping and deals.\r\n\r\n", "image": "https://img.money.com/2014/01/Brad-Tuttle.png?w=226&h=247&crop=1", "alumniOf": "Columbia University School of Journalism, MS", "sameAs": [ "https://twitter.com/bradrtuttle", "https://linkedin.com/in/brad-tuttle-834b225" ] } ], "publisher": "https://money.com/#organization", "datePublished": "2016-07-25T16:18:13.000Z", "description": "To thank law enforcement workers, the Shoney's restaurant chain is giving all police officers free meals on Wednesday, July 27.", "abstract": "To thank law enforcement workers, the Shoney's restaurant chain is giving all police officers free meals on Wednesday, July 27.", "@id": "https://money.com/shoneys-free-meals-police-law-enforcement/", "inLanguage": "en-US", "dateModified": "2024-05-16T11:29:03.000Z", "wordCount": 280, "keywords": [ "deals", "Food & Drink", "freebies", "police", "pubdesk" ], "about": [ { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Lifestyle", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle" ] }, { "@type": "Thing", "name": "Restaurant", "sameAs": [ "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restaurant" ] } ] } ] } ```