TULSA, Okla. — The Chick-fil-A restaurant at Eastside Market in Tulsa, Okla., found a bigger-than-life way to commemorate "National Lemonade Day" by setting a Guinness World Record for the largest cup of lemonade. The Aug. 20, 2008, event also raised more than $10,000 in charitable donations.
Chick-fil-A franchise operator Arthur Greeno and his restaurant team members set the new record by creating an 839-gallon cup of lemonade following the same recipe for the chain's freshly squeezed Chick-fil-A Lemonade.
Guinness Book of World Records representative Danny Girton Jr. officially certified the achievement of the Largest Cup of Soft Drink. The record eclipsed the previous one held by Rob Greenlee of the Florida Department of Citrus who concocted a 611.18 gallon cup of orange juice on April 22, 1998.
The record-setting refreshment was mixed in a nearly 1,100-gallon fiberglass cup designed to resemble Chick-fil-A's signature foam cup and contained 1,050 pounds of sugar, 580 gallons of water, 250 pounds of ice and 11,730 Sunkist lemons that yielded 145 gallons of lemon juice.
After official measurements were taken, the record-setting lemonade supplied several "Sunkist Take a Stand" lemonade stands set up outside the restaurant as a way to collect charitable donations to benefit Little Light House, a Tulsa-based developmental center serving young children with special needs. The lemonade stand fundraising goal of $10,000 was achieved on event day, with additional funds still coming in, according to a news release.
