TAYLORS, SC – 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 March 16 - 17, 2011, from 11 a.m. – 10 p.m., at the Lexington restaurant on 942 East Main Street. 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 the18,000 Special Olympics athletes in South Carolina. Officers from the Town of Lexington Police Department and the Lexington County Sheriff’s 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 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® values
the opportunity to strengthen its communities through giving back.
In the past year, FATZ® 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®,
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
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