TAYLORS, SC (Restaurant News Release) Fatz Cafe has joined forces with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital for Halloween to scare out cancer and other catastrophic diseases for the entire month of October. Children of St. Jude’s have decorated participating Fatz Cafe locations in South Carolina and Georgia in a Halloween theme, giving guests the option to add to the décor and help their fundraising efforts one pumpkin at a time.
Guests are encouraged to “treat” the patients of St. Jude’s this Halloween by adding $1 to their bill to purchase a paper pumpkin that hangs alongside decorations placed by the kids themselves. Participating restaurant locations include Anderson, Athens, Blairsville, Easley, Evans, Greenwood, Jasper, Seneca, Warner Robins and Winder. All proceeds from these philanthropic pumpkins will be donated to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to fund patient care and cancer research.
St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, located in Memphis, Tenn., is internationally recognized for its pioneering research and treatment of children with catastrophic diseases, treating more than 20,000 children from across the U.S. and 70 foreign countries. The money raised by Fatz Cafe will help fund St. Jude’s mission to advance cures for pediatric diseases through research and treatment.
Fatz Cafe values the opportunity to support and strengthen its surrounding community in all 47 locations across five different states. The National Restaurant
Association recently distinguished Fatz Cafe as a finalist for the 2010 Restaurant
Neighbor Award, honoring companies each year that have gone above and beyond in giving back to their communities.
For more information about Fatz Cafe, please visit www.fatzcafe.com and become a Facebook fan at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Fatz-Cafe. And, for more information regarding the St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, visit their website at www.stjude.org.
About Fatz Cafe
The first Fatz Cafe opened in a converted peach shed in Spartanburg, S.C., in November 1988, and now has 47 restaurants throughout the Carolinas, Georgia, Tennessee and Virgina. Fatz Cafe, ranked #52 in the 2007 South Carolina 100SM list of the state’s largest privately owned companies, has also been named one of the nation’s top 400 restaurant concepts by Restaurants & Institutions magazine for the past seven years, most recently ranking #245. In 2008, Chain Leader magazine included Fatz Cafe in its “Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units.” For more information, visit www.fatzcafe.com.