The Melting Pot Restaurants Inc.

“Fondue for a Year” Sweepstakes

Official Rules

NO PURCHASE IS NECESSARY TO ENTER OR WIN. A PURCHASE WILL NOT INCREASE YOUR CHANCES OF WINNING. ALL FEDERAL, STATE, LOCAL, AND MUNICIPAL LAWS AND REGULATIONS APPLY. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

Eligibility: Sweepstakes begins at 12:01 a.m., Eastern Time (“ET”), January 1, 2014 and ends at 11:59 p.m., ET, December 31, 2014 (“Sweepstakes Period”). Sweepstakes open to all legal residents of the 50 United States and District of Columbia (“DC”). The Sweepstakes is open and offered only to legal residents of the 50 United States (including Washington D.C.) and Canada (excluding Quebec), who have reached the age of majority in their state (or province) of residence at the time of entry. Sweepstakes is sponsored by The Melting Pot Restaurants Inc., 8810 Twin Lakes Blvd., Tampa, FL 33614, (the "Sponsor"), who is solely responsible for all aspects of this Sweepstakes. Employees, officers, and directors of the Sponsor, its affiliated companies, subsidiaries, franchisees, distributors, dealers, advertising and promotion agencies, any and all other entities directly associated with this Sweepstakes (“Sweepstakes Entities”), and the immediate family members and members of the same household of any of the above are not eligible to participate.

Three Ways to Enter: 1) Visit any participating Melting Pot restaurant location and complete the Official Fondue Survey regarding your dining experience. You can complete the survey online by visiting (http://www.fonduesurvey.com) and entering a valid access code from either the guest receipt or a Fondue Survey card. Please check with the participating Melting Pot restaurant for hours of operation. Entrants must complete all survey questions. In addition, the following information must be entered on-line: name, day time phone number and zip code. Only one entry may be submitted, per person per day. All on-line entries must be received by December 31, 2014. 2) Visit any participating Melting Pot restaurant location and complete the Official Fondue Survey regarding your dining experience. You can complete the survey via telephone (800-598-9104) and enter the valid access code from either the guest receipt or a Fondue Survey card. Please check with the participating Melting Pot restaurant for hours of operation. Entrants must complete all survey questions. In addition, the following information must be entered on-line: name, day time phone number and zip code. Only one entry may be submitted, per person per day. All telephone entries must be received by December 31, 2014. 3) You may enter by hand-printing your name, address, day telephone number, age and e-mail address on a 3”x 5”card and mailing it in a standard business-size #10 envelope to: Melting Pot “ Fondue for a Year” Sweepstakes, 90 Rockwood Place, Rochester, NY 14610. All mail-in entries must be postmarked by December 31, 2014 and received by January 5, 2015. The postmark date will be considered the date of entry. Quarterly entries will not roll over into subsequent quarters.

Limit one (1) entry per person per day regardless of method of entry. All required information must be completed to enter and to be eligible to win. Proof of sending or entering information at the Website is not considered proof of delivery to or receipt by Sponsor of an entry. The use of automated entry devices is prohibited and no mechanically reproduced entries are allowed; all such entries are void. Sweepstakes Entities are not responsible for: lost, late, incomplete, illegible, incorrect, delayed, garbled, undelivered, misdirected, stolen, postage-due registrations, entries or mail; all such entries are void. Photocopies, facsimiles or other mechanically reproduced entries are ineligible. Sponsor reserves the right to disqualify any person or e-mail address that submits more than maximum allowed entries. All entries become the exclusive property of Sponsor and will not be acknowledged or returned. By participating in the Sweepstakes, entrants agree to be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sweepstakes Administrator. All entrants consent for Sponsor to obtain, use, and transfer your name, address and other information for the sole purpose of administering this Sweepstakes.

Internet Limitations of Liability: Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to cancel, terminate, suspend and/or modify the Sweepstakes, or any part of it, at any time, without notice, and to cancel, terminate, modify or suspend the Sweepstakes in whole or in part, at any time, without notice and award prizes (defined below) using all non-suspect eligible entries received as of the termination/suspension date, if any infection, computer virus, bugs, tampering, unauthorized intervention, fraud, technical failures, or any other cause beyond Sponsor’s control, affects the integrity or proper conduct of the Sweepstakes. Sponsor reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to disqualify any individual who tampers with the entry process (if applicable) or the operation of the Sweepstakes or to be acting in violation of these Official Rules or any other promotion or in a disruptive manner., Sponsor assumes no responsibility for any error, omission, interruption, deletion, defect, delay in operation or transmission, communications line failure, theft or destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries. Sponsor is not responsible for: lost, late, incomplete, illegible, incorrect, delayed, garbled, undelivered, or misdirected entries; theft, destruction or unauthorized access to, or alteration of, entries; failures or malfunctions of phones, phone lines or telephone or data transmission systems; interrupted or unavailable network, server or other connections; any error, omission, interruption, defect or delay in any transmission or communication; traffic congestion on the Internet or any technical problem, including but not limited to any injury or damage to any person’s computer related to or resulting from Sweepstakes participation; typographical, printing or other errors or omissions in these Official Rules, in any Sweepstakes-related advertisements or other materials, or other problems or errors of any kind whether computer, network, mechanical, human, electronic, typographical, printing or otherwise relating to or in connection with the Sweepstakes, including, without limitation, errors or problems which may occur in connection with the administration of the Sweepstakes, in the processing of entries, in the selection or announcement of winners or in the awarding of prizes (defined below). Sponsor’s failure to enforce any term of these Official Rules shall not constitute a waiver of that provision.

Sponsor is not responsible for any damage to an entrant’s system which is occasioned by participating in this Sweepstakes or by downloading any information necessary to participate in the promotion. Sponsor also is not responsible for incorrect or inaccurate entry information, whether caused by Internet users or by any of the equipment or programming associated with or utilized in the Sweepstakes or by any technical or human error, which may occur in the processing of the entries in the Sweepstakes. CAUTION: ANY ATTEMPT TO DELIBERATELY DAMAGE ANY WEBSITE OR UNDERMINE THE LEGITIMATE OPERATION OF THE SWEEPSTAKES IS A VIOLATION OF CRIMINAL AND CIVIL LAWS AND SHOULD SUCH AN ATTEMPT BE MADE, THE SPONSOR RESERVES THE RIGHT TO SEEK DAMAGES OR OTHER REMEDIES FROM ANY SUCH PERSON(S) RESPONSIBLE FOR THE ATTEMPT TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW. In the event of a dispute regarding the identity of an individual who actually submitted an online entry, the entry will be deemed submitted by the authorized account holder of the email account. "Authorized account holder" is defined as the natural person who is assigned to an email account by an Internet access provider, online service provider or other organization (e.g., business, educational, institution, etc.) that is responsible for assigning email addresses for the domain associated with the submitted email address. Potential winner may be required to show proof of being the authorized account holder.

Drawing and Notification: The Grand Prize winners will be selected each quarter, from among all eligible entries received during the quarter in question. The random quarterly drawings will be conducted on or about April 15, 2014; July 15, 2014; October 15, 2014; and January 15, 2015 by the American Sweepstakes & Promotion Co., Inc., (the “Sweepstakes Administrator”), an independent judging organization, whose decisions are final in all matters relating to this Sweepstakes. Odds of winning will depend on the total number of eligible entries received during the quarter in question. The Grand Prize winners will be notified by the Sweepstakes Administrator via telephone, email, and/or USPS mail. Should the Sweepstakes Administrator be unable to contact the Grand Prize winner at the telephone number/email address provided within three (3) days of the date of first notification, the prize will be forfeited and an alternate winner selected.

Prizes: One (1) Grand Prize winner at the conclusion of each quarter will receive twelve (12) $100 Melting Pot Restaurant gift cards. The Approximate Retail Value is $1,200. There will be four (4) Grand Prize winners annually. Grand Prize winners will be selected once per quarter during the Sweepstakes. Prize winner can only win one prize during the Sweepstakes period. The Sponsor reserves the right at its sole discretion to substitute the prize with another prize of equal or greater value.

Prize Conditions: Prizes are non-transferable; no prize substitution allowed. The Grand Prize winners will each be required to sign an Affidavit of Eligibility and Liability / Publicity Release (where permitted), to be returned within 10 days of the first notification, or prize may be forfeited and an alternate winner selected. All federal, state, local, and other taxes on prize are the sole responsibility of the winners. If a Canadian citizen wins a Grand Prize, they will be required to answer, unaided, a mathematical skill-testing question. The winner’s entry and acceptance of the prize offered constitutes permission (except where prohibited) for the Melting Pot Restaurants Inc. to use said winner’s name, photograph, likeness, statements, biographical information, voice and address (city and state), in all forms of media worldwide, in perpetuity, without limitation, notice or further compensation. In Sponsor’s sole discretion, if a prize or prize notification is returned as unclaimed or undeliverable to a potential winner, if a potential Grand Prize winner fails to return requisite document within the specified time period, or if the potential Grand Prize winner is not in compliance with these Official Rules, then such person shall be disqualified and an alternate winner will be selected for the prize at issue.

Terms & Conditions: This Sweepstakes is subject to all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. By participating, entrants agree to abide by and be bound by these Official Rules and the decisions of the Sweepstakes Administrator, and waive any right to claim ambiguity in the Sweepstakes or in these Official Rules. By accepting prize, winner also agrees to release, discharge, indemnify and hold harmless the Sweepstakes Entities, individually and collectively, vendors associated with the Sweepstakes, and the respective officers, directors and employees of each of these entities, from and against any claims, damages or liability due to any injuries, damages or losses to any person (including death) or property of any kind resulting in whole or in any part, directly or indirectly, from acceptance, possession, use or misuse of the prize awarded, or participation in this Sweepstakes. Any person attempting to defraud or in any way tamper with the Sweepstakes mechanics and/or implementation will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. This Sweepstakes is void where prohibited.

Use of Date: All information submitted by entrants will be treated according to Sponsor’s privacy policy, available at http://www.meltingpot.com/privacy-policy.aspx. By participating in the Sweepstakes and providing your e-mail address and other contact information, Entrants hereby agree to Sponsor’s collection and usage of their personal information and acknowledge that they have read and accepted Sponsor’s Privacy Policy.

Disputes: By entering the Sweepstakes, entrants agree that 1.) Any and all disputes, claims, and causes of action arising out of or connected with the Sweepstakes, or any prizes awarded, shall be resolved individually, without resort to any form of class action; 2.) Any and all claims, judgments and awards shall be limited to actual out-of-pocket costs incurred, including costs associated with entering the Sweepstakes but in no event attorneys' fees; and 3.) Under no circumstances will any entrant be permitted to obtain any award for, and entrant hereby waives all rights to claim punitive, incidental or consequential damages and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased and any other damages, other than for actual out-of-pocket expenses, and any and all rights to have damages multiplied or otherwise increased. All issues and questions concerning the construction, validity, interpretation and enforceability of these Official Rules, shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with the laws of the state of Florida without giving effect to any choice of law or conflict of law rules or provisions that would cause the application of the laws of any jurisdiction other than the state of Florida. The invalidity or unenforceability of any provision of these Official Rules shall not affect the validity or enforceability of any other provision. In the event that any provision is determined to be invalid or otherwise unenforceable or illegal, these Official Rules shall otherwise remain in effect and be construed in accordance with their terms as if the invalid or illegal provision were not contained herein. The value of the prizes set forth above represents Sponsor’s good faith determinations of the ARV thereof and such determinations are final and binding and cannot be appealed.

Winners List: To request confirmation of the name and address (city and state) of the Grand Prize winners, please send a self-addressed, stamped business size envelope by February 15, 2015 to: ASC/Melting Pot “Fondue for a Year” Sweepstakes, Winner List Confirmation, 300 State Street, Suite 402, Rochester, NY 14614.

Sponsor: The Melting Pot Restaurants Inc., 8810 Twin Lakes Blvd., Tampa, FL 33614