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 14 - 15, 2011, from 11 a.m. – 2 p.m., and 5 – 8 p.m., at the restaurant on 5590 Forest Drive in Columbia. 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 Richland County Sheriff’s Department, Forest Acres Police Department and Columbia Police Department 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. In
the past year, FATZ® 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 .
