Runza (restaurant)

Runza is a vendor in Memorial Stadium, home of the Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, and sells over 10,000 sandwiches at each football game. The "Temperature Tuesday" promotion is held on Tuesdays in the months of January and February. With the purchase of medium fry and drink, each store sells runzas to customers at a price equal to the 6:00 A.M. Fahrenheit temperature at the store in cents. If the temperature is zero degrees or below the sandwich is free. In 2017, the Omaha Storm Chasers, Omaha's Triple-A affiliate of the Kansas City Royals Major League Baseball team, rebranded themselves as the "Omaha Runzas" in a cross-promotional event.[12] The team's rebranded uniforms featured a cartoon runza sandwich and shared the green and yellow livery of the Runza restaurant chain.[12] Runza operated a 50s themed Rock n' Roll Runza featuring memorabilia, vintage automobiles and roller skating carhops out of downtown Lincoln from 1991 to 2004.[13]

A Runza restaurant in Papillion, Nebraska received some publicity in 2018 when a newlywed couple ate there after their wedding ceremony. In an interview they explained that the restaurant was prominent to their relationship up to their marriage.[14]

The Runza restaurant operating out of the Nebraska Union, the student union at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, closed in 2018 after a decade of operating in the location.[15] The Runza was outbid by a combination of two vendors (Steak 'n Shake and Chick-fil-A franchisees) bidding together.[16] There was public outcry from the student body,[15][16] as the runza is strongly identified as a Nebraskan food, and students felt that it should be sold at Nebraska's flagship university.