How Your Restaurant Can Help End Childhood Hunger
A week-long initiative that encourages consumers to “dine out” in restaurants to raise money to end childhood hunger in America.
Share Our Strength’s Great American Dine Out is a national program that unites thousands of restaurants and millions of consumers in the fight to end childhood hunger in America. For one week each year, thousands of restaurants—from coffee shops to fine dining establishments—offer consumers a chance to do good by eating out.
Thousands of restaurants have already signed up for the week-long event September 20 – 26. Many restaurants are ready to promote special menu items, sell T-shirts or bounce back coupons — all new flexible ways to get customers in the door and raise money to end childhood hunger in America.
The 2009 Great American Dine Out offers restaurant operators and managers a flexible program to become involved; restaurant managers need to decide how they want to implement and promote the September 20-26 event, How to engage and train their employees, and how to raise the funds they donate. Registered operators can use these ideas straight-up, adapt them to suite their own business or create their own.
Now in its second year, the money raised during the Great American Dine Out helps Share Our Strength fund community programs that provide resources and services to children right here in our communities. This money does not go over see it stays right here!
But we need your help!
Why Should You Get Involved?
In the world’s wealthiest nation, no child should grow up hungry. Yet, over the course of the year, more than 12 million children in American worry about when their next meal will come. That’s one in six who are at risk of hunger and who have limited or uncertain access to the nutritious foods they need to thrive. The funds raised through the Great American Dine Out help connect families to food.
At this time of great need, participating in the Great American Dine Out is a way to express your restaurant’s social responsibility.
Attract new customers and bring your regulars back through promotions.
Leverage your active support of Share Our Strength and its cause with your customers.
Enjoy increased visibility in the marketplace from Share Our Strength’s national campaign and sponsor outreach efforts.
Flexible Ways to Participate
Last year was a big success: more than 4,000 restaurants and millions of customers participated in the first annual Great American Dine Out. You can create the way you want to participate. Some ways that restaurants have participated include:
Create a Fall menu item and donate the proceeds.
Customize and market a Great American Dine Out coupon to customers.
Donate a percentage of sales during the Great American Dine Out week.
Co-host a special Great American Dine Out dinner with a vendor or local celebrity and donate the proceeds.
Print T-shirts or caps and sell them to your customers.
Print out our Apple Coupons provided online in our Resource Center (link) and sell them for $1. Have your customers sign each purchased coupon to show their support to end childhood hunger in American, then post the coupons on your restaurant’s Hall of Fame. Donate the proceeds.
Rally employees with a contest to raise the most in donations.
Secure a matching grant from a supplier or other business partner.
Encourage your customers to make their own donations.
Restaurant Promotion
Promoting The Great American Dine Out is easy everything you need to promote your event is provided for you. The beauty is that Share Our Strength has already created all of the media, print and electronic banner images, articles and press releases to help your promotion. Just register, market and communicate. Please join the restaurant industry in this nationwide effort to end childhood hunger in America. Register your restaurant to participate.
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Share Our Strength
If you feel you cannot participate in the great American Dine Out, please join and participate in on of Share Our Strengths addition fund raising events to help stamp out hunger in your community.
