The Krystal Crave Cruiser greeted troops with a hot cup of coffee and warm breakfast meal.

Early this morning, the Chattanooga Downtown Rotary Club, Krystal Crave Cruiser and local media came together to give the 278th Division of the Tennessee National Guard a warm welcome home for the holidays.

The troops, who are currently stationed at Camp Shelby in Mississippi, were given the chance to visit their families during the Christmas break before being deployed to Iraq. After learning of this opportunity, the Downtown Rotary Club banded together to raise funds to transport the Privates from Mississippi to the National Guard Armory in Chattanooga where the Krystal Crave Cruiser greeted about 130 soldiers and their families with a hot cup of coffee and Krystal Sunriser breakfast sandwich.

Also there in support of the servicemen and their families was Chattanooga’s local media: The Times Free Press, Don Welch with WTVC Channel 9, WRBC Channel 3 and WDEF Channel 12. See the links below to read more and check out the photo gallery featuring images from this morning.

• http://www.timesfreepress.com/news/2009/dec/21/soldiers-home-christmas/
• http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=11630573

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Krystal will be handing out free coffee and hot chocolate from the Crave Cruiser to all Grateful Gobbler Walkers!

Calling all Chattanoogans: Get in the spirit of giving this season with Krystal!

This year, Krystal is teaming up with Chattanooga’s annual Thanksgiving Day three-mile walk, the Grateful Gobbler, to raise funds for the Chattanooga Homeless Coalition. Now in its 10th year, the Grateful Gobbler is a time-honored Chattanooga tradition and has drawn in more than 15,000 walkers and runners and has raised more than $285,000 to date.

To help support these dedicated participants, Krystal’s famed Crave Cruiser, a 45-foot big rig, “Krystal kitchen on wheels,” will be set up with a street team on hand to give out complimentary coffee and hot chocolate to everyone who walks for the cause.

As an additional way to say thanks and to help encourage participation, the first 60 guests to show up to the Crave Cruiser will win free Krystal t-shirts. Krystal will also be giving away $5 gift cards to the first ten Facebook fans and/ or Twitter followers, provided they participate in the walk. Finally, all race participants will be entered for the chance to win a $100 Krystal gift card.

So, please join Krystal this Thanksgiving holiday and come out to support this worthy cause. And, be sure to post all your event photos on Facebook and/or Flickr. We’ll even feature the best on Krystal.com! For more information about The Grateful Gobbler Walk and to register, please visit Gratefulgobbler.org.

So after a minor technicality involving eBay‘s charity auction policies, the rare Coke bottle commemorating Krystal’s 75th anniversary is back up for bid.

Because of the glitch, we’ve extended the auction until Monday, April 28.

Visit our new (and eBay approved) auction page, and please rebid, as all proceeds will go directly to benefit the FCA.

The Krystal Crave Cruiser has been spotted again. This time the 45 ft big rig, a.k.a the “Krystal kitchen on wheels”, was down in Shreveport on the set of the movie “Comeback“, a football film starring Ice Cube and being directed by Limp Bizkit’s lead singer, Fred Durst. The Krystal Crave Cruiser was on site, providing free Krystal hamburgers to the cast, crew and of course all the locals, who were hard at work serving as background extras.

The movie is based on the true story of a Pop Warner football team from a poor Illinois town. Ice Cube plays a former football star whose glory days are long gone but manages to find himself again by mentoring his niece (Keke Palmer), the first female in Pop Warner history to quaterback her team to the national championship.

We’re always suckers for the underdog turn hero movies, so you can bet we’ll catch this movie when it hits theaters – not to mention the fact that we’re extremely curious if any of the extras managed to sneak a Krystal box into a shot.

Never staying in one place very long, the Krystal Crave Cruiser is on the road again, crisscrossing its way across the South. If you catch a glimpse of it, honk, wave, take a photo or just shoot us an email, letting us know where you spotted it and who knows, some Krystal gear may magically appear on your doorstep.