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A generous boss has decided to purchase 50,000 lottery tickets with the promise of dividing up the winnings with all his employees should he hit the jackpot.
The CEO of US fast food chain Raising Cane, Todd Graves, bought the tickets at a cost of roughly $100,000 (£83,000), NBC Washington reported.
The jackpot for the Mega Millions lottery is $810 million (£672 million) and is due to be drawn on Tuesday evening.
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Graves announced the massive purchase through a video on Twitter, which showed a lottery machine printing the tickets.
"Buying 50,000 lottery tickets is harder than you think! Hoping to share the winning jackpot with our 50,000 @RaisingCanes Crew," he wrote.
With the business employing 50,000 staff, a jackpot win would result in a payout of just over $16,000 (£13,200) each.
In a press release, Graves said that he decided to buy the tickets after hearing about how big the jackpot was expected to be.
"We couldn’t miss out on the chance to win the Mega Millions jackpot and share it with our crew who always stand together,” he said
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He added: “None of what we do at Cane’s would be possible without our crew, which is why we are always looking for ways to bring them a little extra fun, and if we’re lucky, a surprise on Wednesday morning.”
The $810 million jackpot is the third biggest in the lottery's history.
However, given that the odds of winning are at one in 302.5 million, the chances of Graves winning are still very slim.
It reportedly took "seven or eight hours" to print out all the tickets, the chain's co-CEO, AJ Kumaran, told TODAY.
The Mega Millions is played in 45 US states in addition to Washington DC and the US Virgin Islands.
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