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Thai Away Restaurants Tsunami Relief Fund Benefit

Posted by Roland Tanglao on 1/3/05; 3:28:25 PM From the Features dept. Here's another Tsunami food related benefit. If you know of any more email roland AT bryght.com, leave a comment or call me at 604 729 7924 and I'll post it here. From an email from Tim Pawsey who apparently received it from Dale at Thai Away Home: QUOTE I hope you can help us get this message out.  Our goal is to challenge other Vancouver restaurants to fund raise as well.   Our personal goal is to donate $5,000.  If 1/2 of the Vancouver restaurants were to step up to the plate and do the same on average, that's 14.25 million (35% of what the Canadian government has pledged).  What if that went across Canada???I hope we can have a significant impact!!!!    Thanks, Dale   Thai Away Restaurants Tsunami Relief Fund Benefit On Wednesday January 5, 2005 all profits from our restaurants on that day will be donated to the Red Cross. For more information contact: Dale Dubberley/President 604-318-8111 or Jack Dubberley/District Mgr and Public Relations Mgr @ 604-644-6386 or email: eat@thaiawayhome.com Thai Away Home and Thai Away Express Restaurant locations 3315 Cambie Street (17th & Cambie) 604-873-THAI (8424) 1736 Commercial Drive (between 1st & 2nd) 604-253-THAI (8424) 1206 Davie (Davie & Bute) 604-682-THAI (8424) 43 East 5th Avenue (between Ontario & Quebec) 604-708-THAI (8424) More than half of our staff are Thai so the Earthquake/Tsunami disaster has personally affected many in our restaurants. We still are waiting to hear about staff, family and friends who were in Pukhet at that time and pray for their safety. It is such a small world community and we are all so interdependent these days. We would like to do what we can to help and make it easy for others to do the same. Everybody has to eat next Wednesday so why not make it count. We would like your help challenging or encouraging other Asian restaurants to do the same. For those who can't make it on the 5th, there is currently a donation box at each of the above locations for individuals to help with what they can. Background on Thai Away Restaurants and Specialty Food outlets we specialize in "Thai food to eat-in, take home or make at home" 1st restaurant opened on Cambie Street in February 1997; company incorporated July, 1998 currently 4 locations (3 Thai Away Home and 1 Thai Away Express) we have approximately 40-45 staff members, the majority of which are Asian we offer franchise opportunities for Thai Away Express restaurants we distribute a line of Thai sauces and frozen Thai meals to prepare at home called "Meals in Minutes" that can put healthy, gourmet Thai food on the dinner table for more info see www.thaiawayhome.com and www.thaiawayexpress.com email: eat@thaiawayhome.com UNQUOTE Link: # | Discuss (1 response) | |

Restaurants for Relief January 6, 2005

Posted by Roland Tanglao on 1/3/05; 12:59:01 PM From the Features dept. [UPDATE Jan 04, 2005: The number of restaurants has increased from 12 to 14 with the addition of Elixir and Monsoon. Please see the Restaurants for Relief event page over on Urban Vancouver for this and future updates] In addition to donating to a charity like Unicef or the Red Cross, Barb and I will try to participate this Thursday. In the meantime, if anybody knows of any other restaurant or food related relief efforts, let us know and I will post it there. From the wild rice Vancouver site, THURSDAY JANUARY 6th is RESTAURANTS FOR RELIEF DAY: WILD RICE SPEARHEADS RESTAURANTS FOR RELIEF JANUARY 6th (Vancouver, BC) – “We just wanted to do something to help,” says Wild Rice co-owner Andrew Wong of his and partner Tom Poirier’s decision to raise money for the Tsunami Relief Fund. “We decided that the easiest way for us to help was to donate a portion of our receipts to the Canadian Red Cross,” says Poirier. “From there it was a matter of ‘who else can we include?’ We called a few friends and colleagues and quickly came up with 11 other restaurants willing to participate. Everyone we called was enthusiastic about the idea and eager to get involved.” Thursday, January 6, 2005 has been designated Restaurants for Relief day by the 12 participants with their donating 25% of their total food bills to disaster relief. “Thursday is generally a busy day in restaurants, so we are hoping to raise a significant amount, “ says Wong. The donation applies to the food portion of both lunch and dinner checks. “We’ll consolidate the donations and deliver it to the Red Cross on the next day.” For one participant, Montri Rattanraj of Montri’s Thai Restaurant, the event has a special meaning. He had been visiting family in the south of Thailand and had only just left the country a few hours before the tsunami hit. Thankfully none of his family was affected by the disaster but he has friends and colleagues working in many of the resort hotels that have been destroyed. Participants in Restaurants for Relief are: Banana Leaf - 820 W. Broadway 604.731.6333 Banana Leaf on Denman - 1096 Denman Street 604.683.3333 Bistro Pastis - 2153 W.4th Avenue 604.731.5020 Fiction - 3162 W. Broadway 604.736.7576 Lucy Mae Brown - 862 Richards St. 604.899.9199 Montri’s Thai Restaurant - 3629 W. Broadway 604.738.9888 Rubina Tandoori - 1962 Kingsway Avenue 604.874.3621 Provence Marinaside - 1177 Marinaside Crescent 604.681.4144 Provence Mediterranean Grill - 4473 West 10th Avenue 604.222.1980 Tamarind - 1626 W. Broadway 604.733.5335 Tangerine - 1685 Yew St. 604.739.4677 Wild Rice - 117 W. Pender 604.642.2882 Link: # | Discuss | |