Cleveland hero Charles Ramsey declined several offers from a series of Ohio-area restaurants that will give him free burgers for life.
“I never told these people they could use my name for this,” Ramsey said in a written statement on local restaurants promoting his name on burgers and selling it to the community.
Hodge’s Restaurant was among the first to jump on the promotional bandwagon when it created the “Ramsey Burger” in the local hero’s honor.
Over a dozen more restaurants began to follow suit, according to Complex.
“We are saddened to hear that Chuck did not take this–or the offer of so many Cleveland restaurants to give him free meals–in the spirit we intended,” said Scott Kuhn of the Driftwood Restaurant Group.
Charles Ramsey is most notably known for helping rescue three woman and a girl from captivity in Cleveland, Ohio.
For one semester, Ramsey once attended Central State University, a historically black university in Wilberforce, Ohio, in the fall of 1989 where he took classes like health, mathematics and student orientation as a freshman student.
Though not interested in free lunch, Ramsey is accepting $10,000 per motivational speech with the talent agency Bruce Merrin’s Celebrity Speakers & Entertainment Bureau.
“I believe that Charles has a story that will impact audiences lives! His spirit moves me,” Merrin said in the release.
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