Thai Away Restaurants Tsunami Relief Fund Benefit

Here's another Tsunami food related benefit. If you know of any more email roland AT bryght.com, leave a comment or call me at 604 729 7924 and I'll post it here.

From an email from Tim Pawsey who apparently received it from Dale at Thai Away Home:

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I hope you can help us get this message out.  Our goal is to challenge other Vancouver restaurants to fund raise as well.   Our personal goal is to donate $5,000.  If 1/2 of the Vancouver restaurants were to step up to the plate and do the same on average, that's 14.25 million (35% of what the Canadian government has pledged).  What if that went across Canada???I hope we can have a significant impact!!!!    Thanks, Dale

 

Thai Away Restaurants Tsunami Relief Fund Benefit

On Wednesday January 5, 2005 all profits from our restaurants on that day will be donated to the Red Cross.

For more information contact: Dale Dubberley/President 604-318-8111 or Jack Dubberley/District Mgr and Public Relations Mgr @ 604-644-6386 or email: eat@thaiawayhome.com

Thai Away Home and Thai Away Express Restaurant locations

• 3315 Cambie Street (17th & Cambie) 604-873-THAI (8424)
• 1736 Commercial Drive (between 1st & 2nd) 604-253-THAI (8424)
• 1206 Davie (Davie & Bute) 604-682-THAI (8424)
• 43 East 5th Avenue (between Ontario & Quebec) 604-708-THAI (8424)

More than half of our staff are Thai so the Earthquake/Tsunami disaster has personally affected many in our restaurants. We still are waiting to hear about staff, family and friends who were in Pukhet at that time and pray for their safety. It is such a small world community and we are all so interdependent these days. We would like to do what we can to help and make it easy for others to do the same.

Everybody has to eat next Wednesday so why not make it count. We would like your help challenging or encouraging other Asian restaurants to do the same.

For those who can't make it on the 5th, there is currently a donation box at each of the above locations for individuals to help with what they can.

Background on Thai Away Restaurants and Specialty Food outlets

• we specialize in "Thai food to eat-in, take home or make at home"
• 1st restaurant opened on Cambie Street in February 1997; company incorporated July, 1998
• currently 4 locations (3 Thai Away Home and 1 Thai Away Express)
• we have approximately 40-45 staff members, the majority of which are Asian
• we offer franchise opportunities for Thai Away Express restaurants
• we distribute a line of Thai sauces and frozen Thai meals to prepare at home called "Meals in Minutes" that can put healthy, gourmet Thai food on the dinner table
• for more info see www.thaiawayhome.com and www.thaiawayexpress.com
• email: eat@thaiawayhome.com

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