First Check-In
Scan a participating café’s QR code and record your first check-in.
Reward
A welcome badge to celebrate your first stop. No prize drawing or gift card.
Explore more — earn more
Achievement challenges
Visit cafés, explore the region, and complete challenges throughout the Rockford Coffee Crawl to collect badges.
Check in at 4 different participating café locations to earn Official Crawler and unlock your first grand-prize entry. Other qualifying achievements add bonus entries or multiply your entries once you’ve earned Official Crawler—including achievements earned before you qualified.
Gift-card rewards are awarded by drawing from everyone who earns that achievement. Double Shot has a separate $10 gift-card winner for each participating brand with multiple locations, drawn from crawlers who check in at two of that brand’s locations.
Official Crawler
Check in at any 4 different eligible participating café locations during the crawl. Multiple locations from the same brand count separately; repeat visits to one location count once.
Reward
Your first grand-prize entry
Early Riser
Check in at any 3 different participating café locations before 10:00 a.m. Central time on the same crawl day. Repeat visits to one location count once. You do not need to visit every eligible café.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 café gift-card drawing
Long Distance Traveler
Eligible locations
- Almoka Coffee House — Almoka Coffee Truck
- DeeDee's Main Street Coffee
- La Croûte Bakery Cafe
- Mary’s Market — Roscoe
- My Cafe Amore — My Cafè Amorè (Winnebago)
- My Cafe Amore — My Cafè Amorè (Cherryvalley)
- Rosie’s coffee co
Visit any 3 different eligible locations on the outskirts of the crawls footprint. Choose from the locations selected for Long Distance Traveler; you do not need to visit them all. Repeat visits to one location count once.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $15 café gift-card drawing
Weekend Warrior
Check in at least once on each crawl date, using Central time. The same café can count on different days. Multiple scans on one day count as one day.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $15 café gift-card drawing
Double Shot — Almoka Coffee House
Eligible locations
- Almoka Coffee House — Almoka Coffee House
- Almoka Coffee House — Almoka Coffee Truck
Check in at any two different Almoka Coffee House locations (2 participating locations). Repeat visits to one location do not count. This brand has its own Double Shot badge and one gift-card winner.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 gift-card drawing for that café brand. One winner per participating brand with multiple locations.
Double Shot — Mary’s Market
Eligible locations
- Mary’s Market — East State Street
- Mary’s Market — Perryville
- Mary’s Market — Roscoe
Check in at any two different Mary’s Market locations (3 participating locations). Repeat visits to one location do not count. This brand has its own Double Shot badge and one gift-card winner.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 gift-card drawing for that café brand. One winner per participating brand with multiple locations.
Double Shot — Meg’s Daily Grind
Eligible locations
- Meg’s Daily Grind — Meg's Daily Grind (N Alpine)
- Meg’s Daily Grind — Meg's Daily Grind (N Perryville)
- Meg’s Daily Grind — Meg's Daily Grind (Riverside)
Check in at any two different Meg’s Daily Grind locations (3 participating locations). Repeat visits to one location do not count. This brand has its own Double Shot badge and one gift-card winner.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 gift-card drawing for that café brand. One winner per participating brand with multiple locations.
Double Shot — My Cafe Amore
Eligible locations
- My Cafe Amore — My Cafè Amorè (Winnebago)
- My Cafe Amore — My Cafè Amorè (Cherryvalley)
Check in at any two different My Cafe Amore locations (2 participating locations). Repeat visits to one location do not count. This brand has its own Double Shot badge and one gift-card winner.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 gift-card drawing for that café brand. One winner per participating brand with multiple locations.
Double Shot — Rockford Roasting Co.
Eligible locations
- Rockford Roasting Co. — RRC DOWNTOWN
- Rockford Roasting Co. — RRC EAST
Check in at any two different Rockford Roasting Co. locations (2 participating locations). Repeat visits to one location do not count. This brand has its own Double Shot badge and one gift-card winner.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 gift-card drawing for that café brand. One winner per participating brand with multiple locations.
Night Owl
Eligible locations
- Almoka Coffee House — Almoka Coffee House
- Almoka Coffee House — Almoka Coffee Truck
- DeeDee's Main Street Coffee
- Inzombia Coffee
- Mary’s Market — East State Street
- Mary’s Market — Perryville
- Mary’s Market — Roscoe
- Meg’s Daily Grind — Meg's Daily Grind (N Alpine)
- Mrs. Buckbee's Wake-N-Bakery
- Rad Fuel Co.
- Rockford Roasting Co. — RRC DOWNTOWN
- Rosie’s coffee co
Check in at any 1 different checked eligible café location after 4:00 p.m. Central time on the same crawl day. Repeat visits to one location count once. You do not need to visit every eligible café.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $10 café gift-card drawing
River District Sweep
Eligible locations
- Amazin Glazin Pastry & Coffee House
- Inzombia Coffee
- Rad Fuel Co.
- Rockford Roasting Co. — RRC DOWNTOWN
- Wired Cafe
Visit all locations assigned to the River District group.
Reward
+1 grand-prize entry + entry into a $15 café gift-card drawing
Citywide Sweep
Visit at least one participating location from each of the 15 participating café brands. Any location of a brand counts; visiting several locations of the same brand still counts as one brand.
Reward
2× grand-prize entries + entry into a $25 café gift-card drawing
Crawl Complete
Visit all 22 participating locations. Each individual location needs its own check-in, including every location of brands with multiple stops.
Reward
3× grand-prize entries + entry into a $25 café gift-card drawing
A chance at every stop
Visit a participating café and scan its QR code to check in during crawl weekend. Every new café location you visit gives you another chance to win a free drink.
Reward
Entry into that café location’s free beverage drawing.
One entry per location. Each participating location awards one free beverage to a randomly selected crawler after the weekend. You can enter with your very first check-in.