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SAN DIEGO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 02/13/12 -- Luna Grill, : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256749&type=1& .. voted "Best Fast Casual" restaurant that features an all-fresh, high-quality, made-to-order Mediterranean menu, : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256752&type=1& .. is giving 20 percent of its proceeds on Valentine's Day to Rady Children's Hospital.



"It's part of our Luna Gives Back program," explained Maria Pourteymour, chief cuisine officer of Luna Grill. "Valentine's Day is not only a day for couples to celebrate their relationships, but it's a day for people to show their hearts for each other and those less fortunate. That's what our Luna Gives program is all about."





On Valentine's Day, 20 percent of the proceeds from all six Luna Grill locations will be tallied and later donated to Rady Children's Hospital.



"Our staff is very enthusiastic about this and will be outfitted with t-shirts that say 'Help Fight Pediatric Illness,'" added Pourteymour. "We're also giving kids heart-shaped and decorated cookies that day."



With six locations : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256755&type=1& .. and sixty menu items : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256758&type=1& .. , Luna Grill makes dining out nutritious, easy, tasty, and affordable. The restaurant chain is known for its all-fresh, high-quality, wholesome, made-to-order Mediterranean cuisine : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256761&type=1& .. . Lunch entrees range in price from $7 - $10. Dinner entrees range from $9 - $13.50. There is also a kids menu available and kids eat free with the purchase of an entrée (limit one child per adult) on select nights at each location. Contact Luna Grill for details.



Luna Grill is owned by Premier Food Concepts, LLC., which has headquarters in San Diego. The restaurant chain was established in 2004 with the intent to provide wholesome, natural food to those wishing to dine out without spending a lot of money. Restaurant locations include Carmel Valley, Carlsbad, EastLake, Hillcrest, Mission Valley, Liberty Station in Point Loma. Additionally, Luna Grill has executed two leases in Orange County, the first in Lake Forest, scheduled to open in March, and the second in Irvine Spectrum, slated to open in early summer of 2012. For more information about Luna Grill, visit www.lunagrill.com : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256764&type=1& .. , become a Facebook fan at www.facebook.com/thelunagrillrestaurant : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256767&type=1& .. , follow on Twitter twitter.com/#!/lunagrillsd : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256770&type=1& .. @LunaGrillSD.



Rady Children's Hospital-San Diego : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256773&type=1& .. , the largest children's hospital in California, is a 442-bed pediatric care facility providing the largest source of comprehensive pediatric medical services in San Diego, Southern Riverside and Imperial counties. Rady Children's is the only hospital in the San Diego area dedicated exclusively to pediatric healthcare and is the region's only designated pediatric trauma center. On October 10, 2010, Rady Children's opened the Acute Care Pavilion, a LEED-Certified (green) building that is home to the incredible Peckham Center for Cancer and Blood Disorders, the state-of-the-art Warren Family Surgical Center, and a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit that cares for our community's most fragile newborns. In May 2011, U.S. News & World Report ranked Rady Children's among the best children's hospitals in the nation in all ten pediatric specialties the magazine surveyed. For more information, visit www.rchsd.org : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256776&type=1& .. and find us on Facebook : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256779&type=1& .. , Twitter : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256782&type=1& .. and YouTube : ctt.marketwire.com/?release=850946&id=1256785&type=1& .. .



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