TAYLORS, S.C. – To benefit the South Carolina Special Olympics, FATZ®, home of the World Famous Calabash Chicken®, will be hosting a Calabash and Cops Tip-A-Cop event on April 26 - 27, 2011, from 4 – 9 p.m., at the restaurant on 996 Pine Log Road in Aiken. Law enforcement officers will be seating and serving FATZ® guests in exchange for tips that will go directly to support the Law Enforcement Torch Run and the 21,400 Special Olympics athletes in South Carolina. Officers from the Aiken County Sheriffʼs Office, WSI-SRS Team and other law enforcement agencies will be participating in the event.
Law Enforcement Torch Run is an international organization with
the mission to raise awareness of and funds for Special Olympics.
In 2010, the Law Enforcement Torch Run raised more than $450,000 to
support year-round sports trainings and competitions and looks to
raise even more through the Calabash and Cops Tip-A-Cop event.
Special Olympics is a year-round training and competition sports
organization for children and adults with intellectual
disabilities. Currently there are more than 21,000 athletes in
South Carolina who train and compete in a choice of 23 different
Olympics- type sports. The program is supported by more than 12,000
volunteers annually. FATZ® values
the opportunity to strengthen its communities through giving back
and has raised more than $600,000 from 47 locations across five
different states to benefit organizations ranging from local
schools to The United Way.
For more information about FATZ®,
please visit www.FATZ.com and become a Facebook fan at
http://www.facebook.com/FATZ.
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About FATZ®
The first FATZ®
opened in a converted peach shed in Spartanburg, S.C., in
November 1988, and now has 47 restaurants throughout the Carolinas,
Georgia, Tennessee and Virginia. FATZ, a subsidiary of Cafe
Enterprises, Inc., ranked No. 34 in the 2010 South Carolina100 list
of the state's largest privately owned companies by South Carolina
Business, 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 No. 245.
In 2008, Chain Leader magazine included
FATZ® in its "Top 50 Chains
Under 50 Units." For more information, visit
www.FATZ.com.
