Tuesday, April 28, 2009
McAlister’s Deli has been providing the community with more than just sandwiches.
Tips totaling $2,256 collected during the last four months at McAlister’s Deli, 2108 W. 27th St., will be donated to help the Lawrence Humane Society.
Field Dellett, general manager for McAlister’s Deli, said the employees chose which community organization received the tip donations.
“We just let the employees vote because they’re the ones getting tips,” Dellett said.
Devinee Fitzgerald, Wichita freshman and server at McAlister’s Deli, said she thought it was a good idea to donate tips.
“It’s special because we get rewarded and the community gets rewarded at the same time,” Fitzgerald said. “We’re getting paid more than the average waitress or server, so it works out for everybody.”
Dellett said he liked calling organizations to let them know that McAlister’s would be making a donation.
“I hear how excited they are. They’re like ‘Oh my gosh you’ve got to be kidding me,’” Dellett said. “A lot of time they don’t know it’s going to happen.”
Midge Grinstead, director of the Lawrence Humane Society, said she was very excited when she heard McAlister’s would be donating its tips.
“We didn’t even know they were donating it,” Grinstead said. “I’d been in there two or three times. I hadn’t seen the sign.”
Grinstead said donations were important to the Lawrence Humane Society. The Lawrence Humane Society has a $1.1 million budget, and $730,000 of that comes from donations. Grinstead said that McAlister’s donations would go to the Douglas County Animal Response Team.
“It’s a wonderful, wonderful thing, when somebody thinks of us and we haven’t been bothering them for money,” Grinstead said. “I think it lets my staff know, ‘Hey, you’re doing such a good job.’”
Veronica Howard, Flint, Mich., graduate student and volunteer coordinator for the Lawrence Humane Society, said donations were important especially now.
“With recent economic downturn, we’ve been receiving more and more [animals] every day,” Howard said. “It’s only late April now, and we’re almost completely filled to capacity with our pet dogs.”
Grinstead said without donations the humane society would not be able to provide all of its services.
“It seems like we’re just so close, every year, to not making it, but there’s always people like McAlister’s out there who come forward and say we’re going to make a difference,” Grinstead said.
Howard said the DCART, the organization McAlister’s tips are going to, was a ‘fantastic’ program.
“I didn’t realize how important it was until the director told me about their rescue efforts in Greensburg,” Howard said. “She has fantastic stories, but the one that sticks with me the most are where she describes digging through piles of rubble to pull out pet cats and dogs that had been buried in the rubble of collapsed houses, sometimes a week after the tornado occurred.”
— — Edited by Susan Melgren
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McAlister’s Deli’s employees donate tips
Wow. That's uncomplicatedly really nice, actually.
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