Max's Restaurant Partners with Gilas Pilipinas: Formal Launch and Contract Signing Event

Wazzup Pilipinas!

The Gilas Pilipinas national basketball team has found a new ally in Max's Restaurant. The restaurant chain formally forged a partnership with the Nationals at the Max's Restaurant branch located at 21 Scout Tuazon Street, Barangay Laging Handa, Quezon City.

Chief Executive Officer Karen Salud and Marketing Director Mark Gamboa represented Max's Restaurant, while Coach Chot Reyes and players Jimmy Alapag, Jayson Castro, Ranidel De Ocampo, Larry Fonacier, Junemar Fajardo, Marc Pingris, and Jared Dillinger came for Gilas Pilipinas.
According to the multi-titled PBA coach, talks about the partnership began when he was invited to speak in front of the Max's restaurant managers and franchise partners. More meetings happened, and the team-up was sealed soon afterwards.

Mark Gamboa, Marketing Director of Max's Restaurant, shows us the Max's ad #PusoToTheMax

Popular sportscaster TJ Manotoc hosts the launch

Coach Chot Reyes tells us about the partnership with Max's

Puso to the Max for Gilas Pilipinas!

Surprise, surprise, surprise!!!

The Gilas Pilipinas were surprised that Max's Restaurant brought their families to the celebration. The Gilas Pilipinas team members were having mixed emotions especially after they were shown a video containing greetings and congratulatory remarks from their families whom all suddenly came out to join them.

Coach Chot Reyes poses with his family

Cute baby... Isn't she adorable just like her mother!

Lot's of kids from this Gilas Pilipinas team member

Signing of contract to formalize the partnership

Reyes and Gamboa signed a deal that formalized the partnership of Gilas Pilipinas and Max's Restaurant. In an exchange of tokens, Salud handed VIP cards and copies of the book about Max's Restaurant's history to Coach Chot and his players, while Reyes gave her a basketball with the signatures of all the Gilas players in it.

I wonder what's up there? Another surprise?

New poster revealed for the partnership

A poster was also revealed for the first time which was followed by numerous confettis and then a celebrational toast from Max's Restaurant and Gilas Pilipinas.

"Max's Restaurant and Gilas Pilipinas are very similar to each other because they are families," Reyes said on the new tie-up.

Sir Bob Puso to the Max

Puso to the Max family with Coach Chot Reyes

Everyone can also take part in this partnership on social media by adding the hashtag #PusoToTheMax on their posts.

Puso to the Max with Ross Del Rosario

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