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World Well-known Pralines sweet firm pledges 100,000 meals for the nation’s largest starvation reduction group
Savannah, GA (RestaurantNews.com) What do Ghost Pirates, Pete the Cat and Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia have in widespread?
All of them love pralines – and serving to others. That’s why they’ll be celebrating Nationwide Pralines Day with River Street Sweets.
For the eighth 12 months in a row, River Road Sweets will donate 10 % of all in-store and on-line praline gross sales to Feeding America’s Children Café initiative from June 21st via June 24th. Feeding America is the most important charity in america working to finish starvation. The Children Café program, which domestically falls beneath Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia, supplies afterschool meals, tutoring and a protected place for at-risk youngsters. Through the summer season, when it may be significantly troublesome for some youngsters to have entry to meals, this system continues.
River Road Sweets has been donating meals to Children Café since 2016. This 12 months, proceeds from praline gross sales can be collected from every retail location and from on-line purchases at RiverStreetSweets.com. Money donations are being accepted now via the top of July. Friends may also spherical up their purchases in-store and on-line to donate on to Children Café.
“We love making pralines, and we very a lot recognize that our company love consuming them,” mentioned Jennifer Strickland, co-owner of River Road Sweets. “We additionally know that not everybody has entry to fundamental meals or easy diet, particularly in the course of the summer season when faculty is out. As a result of giving again is a precedence for us, persevering with to assist Second Harvest and the Children Café is the pure factor to do.”
This 12 months’s celebration can be held on Friday, June 21st from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the River Road Sweets Retailer on Broughton Road. These anticipated to attend embody the Ghost Pirates with mascot Davy; chef and writer Rebekah Faulk Lingenfelser who will signal copies of her newest e book Distinctive Eats and Eateries of Savannah; and representatives from Second Harvest of Coastal Georgia and the Savannah Chamber of Commerce. Thriller visitor praline scoopers can even be there to assist homeowners Jennifer and Tim Strickland hand-dip the treats.
Pete the Cat can be making an look – in tee-shirt kind. Artist James Dean, writer of the well-known Pete the Cat youngsters’s books, created the design on most of the River Road Sweets sweet bins. As well as, when River Road Sweets celebrated its 50th anniversary final 12 months, Dean created a commemorative design of Pete the Cat celebrating. All earnings from the shirts can be donated to Children Café. Shirts are on sale now in choose shops and on-line whereas provides final.
“As leaders within the hospitality enterprise, giving again isn’t an possibility, however a precedence,” Strickland added. “To have the neighborhood be a part of us on this endeavor makes every thing that a lot sweeter.”
To this point, River Road Sweets has donated greater than 238,000 meals to Children Café. Final 12 months’s efforts introduced in roughly $14,551, which equates to about 72,755 meals. This 12 months, the aim is 100,000 meals.
Now a nationwide success story, Children Café began in Savannah in 1989 after two small, hungry boys have been caught breaking right into a neighborhood heart seeking meals. Some native residents examine what occurred in The Savannah Morning Information newspaper, acquired collectively and began donating meals. The initiative exploded in recognition over time, and in 1993, it was adopted by Feeding America.
For extra data on Nationwide Pralines Day go to RiverStreetSweets.com.
About River Road Sweets
River Road Sweets has been creating candy recollections since 1973, when it opened its flagship location on historic River Road. Over 50 years later, River Road Sweets places may be present in Charleston and Myrtle Seashore, SC, Sarasota, FL and extra places in Savannah, on Habersham and Broughton Road. In 2015, the primary franchise location opened in Pooler, adopted by places in Key West, Fla. and Lancaster, Pa. A location in Greenville, S.C. opened in 2019, and in 2020, places have been added at The Battery in Atlanta, Ga. and Asbury Park, N.J. In 2021, a location was opened in Sundown Stroll in Orlando, Fla., and one in Sarasota, FL in 2022. Named the “Second Finest Sweet Franchise within the Nation” by Entrepreneur.com, River Road Sweets has grown exponentially with further franchise places on the horizon throughout the Southeast. For extra data, go to RiverStreetSweets.com and RiverStreetSweetsFranchises.com.
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