The Palm Raises Funds to Fight Hunger
Hollywood celebrities gather with The Palm Restaurant Group to help feed hungry schoolchildren.
-- Chain Leader, 11/3/2009 8:18:00 AM
PRESS RELEASE: (WASHINGTON, D.C.; November 2, 2009) -- The Palm West Hollywood (www.thepalm.com) hosted celebrities, business leaders and politicians last week to celebrate and support a new nationwide partnership between The Palm Restaurant Group and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP). As part of the "Fill the Cup" campaign, The Palm will donate a minimum of $100,000 over the next two years to help the WFP provide more than 400,000 school meals to kids in the world's poorest countries.
"The Palm Restaurant Group is passionate about helping stamp out hunger around the world and we're proud to be involved with such a compelling project," said Bruce Bozzi, Jr., dinner host and executive vice president of The Palm. "Every time one of our guests orders the jumbo Nova Scotia Lobster dish in any of The Palm's 26 U.S. restaurants, we will donate a portion of the sales to help feed hungry schoolchildren."
Celebrity attendees included Guy Pearce (The Hurt Locker), Tom Hardy (Black Hawk Down), Antoine Fuqua (Training Day), and Morgan Spurlock (Supersize Me). Dan Glickman, Chairman and CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) and Vice Chairman of the U.S. based Friends of the WFP Board and Karen Sendelback, President and CEO of Friends of the WFP participated in the speaking program. Images are available at http://web.beimages.net/link/p4lmVLnk/.
The partnership is part of the Palm Cares(c) program, the philanthropic arm of The Palm, supporting local and nationally recognized non-profit organizations that address issues of empowerment, hunger, health awareness and equality. (www.wfp.org/thepalm.)
Palm Restaurants
In 1926, Italian immigrants John Ganzi and Pio Bozzi opened the original Palm in New York at 837 Second Avenue - where it still stands today. Due to lack of funding, the owners offered local newspapermen plates of spaghetti in exchange for the penning of cartoons which has become a hallmark of The Palm design style. The Palm has been co-owned by the Ganzi and Bozzi families throughout four generations, and the group serves more than 2.25 million customers annually, with a turnover of approximately $133 million. Palm Restaurant sites include: Atlanta, Atlantic City, Boston, Charlotte, Chicago, Dallas, Denver, East Hampton, Houston, Las Vegas, London, Los Angeles, Hollywood, Mexico City, Miami, Nashville, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, San Antonio, San Diego, San Juan, Tampa, Tysons Corner, and Washington, D.C. (www.thepalm.com.)
World Food Program
WFP is the world's largest humanitarian agency and the UN's frontline agency for hunger solutions. In 2009, WFP aims to reach 108 million people in 74 countries with innovative hunger solutions - from school meals, vouchers and food for work to emergency assistance and programs helping smallholder farmers increase production and contribute further to food security. (www.wfp.org.)
