TAYLORS, SC – To benefit the South Carolina Special Olympics, Fatz Cafe, home of the world famous Calabash Chicken, will be hosting a Calabash and Cops Tip-A-Cop event on Dec. 30, 2010, from 11:00 a.m. – 2:00 p.m. and 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., and Dec. 31, 2010, from 5:00 – 8:00 p.m., at the Florence restaurant on 2007 West Lucas Street. The roles are reversed as guests of Fatz Cafe give cops orders as law enforcement officers seat and serve customers in exchange for tips that will go directly to support the 18,000 Special Olympics athletes in South Carolina. Officers from the Florence County Sheriff’s Office, Darlington County Sheriff’s Office, South Carolina Highway Patrol and City of Florence 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 Torch Run has 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 18,000 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 Cafe values the opportunity to strengthen its communities
through giving back. In the past year, Fatz Cafe has raised more
than $450,000 from 47 locations across five different states to
benefit organizations ranging from local schools to The United
Way.
For more information about Fatz Cafe, please visit www.fatz.com and become a Facebook fan
visit www.facebook.com/fatz.
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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 Virginia. Fatz
Cafe, 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 Cafe in its "Top 50 Chains Under 50 Units." For more
information, visit www.fatz.com
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