Help make a difference in your community by supporting local nonprofit groups in Florida while dining at any of the eight Columbia locations throughout Florida in September for lunch or dinner during the 15th Annual Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest program.
Through this program, The Columbia donates 5 percent of all guests’ lunch and dinner checks to the charitable organizations chosen by their customers during the entire month of September.
The Community Harvest takes place in all of the Columbia locations including Ybor City in the historic district of Tampa, St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, St. Augustine, The Pier in St. Petersburg, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s Town of Celebration, the Columbia Café on the Riverwalk in Downtown Tampa at The Tampa Bay History Center and the Columbia Restaurant Café at Tampa International Airport. All Columbia locations are open 7 days a week for lunch and dinner. For more information, see www.columbiarestaurant.com.
“We started this program in 1998 as a way to help many of the worthy nonprofit groups that are so important to our communities,” noted 4th generation family member and president, Richard Gonzmart. “We thought the best way to do this was by letting our customers get involved in selecting the organizations. The process is simple. They just put a check mark next to the name of one of the charitable organizations listed on the form we provide them that they would like the Columbia to donate 5 percent of their check to, and turn it in to their server. We do the rest,” explained Gonzmart.
Over the past 14 years, the Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest has donated over $1,311,000 to more than 100 nonprofit organizations throughout Florida.
The original Columbia Restaurant was founded in Tampa’s Historic Ybor City in 1905 by Cuban immigrant Casimiro Hernandez, Sr., and is now Florida’s Oldest Restaurant. Additional locations include St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, the Historic District in St. Augustine, The Pier in Downtown St. Petersburg, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s town of Celebration, the Columbia Café on the Riverwalk in Tampa and the Columbia Restaurant Café at Tampa International Airport. All Columbia locations are owned and operated by 4th and 5th generation members of the founding family; except for Columbia Restaurant Cafe at Tampa International Airport which is operated in partnership with HMSHost. Please see www.columbiarestaurant.com for more information.
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SOURCE: Columbia Restaurant
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