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 29, 2011, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., and 5 – 8 p.m., at the restaurant on 4951 Centre Point Drive in North Charleston. 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 Charleston law enforcement agencies including the Fraternal Order of Police Tri-County Lodge 3 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 21,400
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.
