Buca di Beppo Donates Nearly $16,000 to Assist Hurricane Recovery.Share Our Strength[R] Restaurants for Relief[R] Event Raises Money for Gulf Coast Rebuilding MINNEAPOLIS -- Buca di Beppo Buca di Beppo is an American restaurant chain specializing in immigrant Southern Italian food. The name roughly translates as "Joe's Basement" (Beppo is slang for Joe in Southern Italy and Buca means basement (literally it means "hole") in Italian). (Nasdaq:BUCA) donated $15,900.48 to the hurricane recovery effort last month, raising the money as part of the Share Our Strength's Restaurants for Relief([R]) 2 event. The company donated a percentage of sales in each of their stores on Aug. 29, 2006. This follows up a similar program in 2005 when Buca donated approximately $50,000 to this effort, bringing the total to about $66,000 in the past year. "Hurricane Katrina  Editing of this page by unregistered or newly registered users is currently disabled due to vandalism. may have devastated dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. the Gulf Coast, but it also touched lives all over the country," said Wallace Doolin, Chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of BUCA, Inc. "We are proud to be part of the recovery effort as the people of Louisiana CODE, OF LOUISIANA. In 1822, Peter Derbigny, Edward Livingston, and Moreau Lislet, were selected by the legislature to revise and amend the civil code, and to add to it such laws still in force as were not included therein. , Mississippi and surrounding states rebuild their lives and businesses." About Share Our Strength. Share Our Strength has been organizing individuals and businesses to fight hunger around the globe since 1984. The organization now cites ending childhood hunger in the U.S. as its first priority. The proceeds from the Restaurants for Relief event will be used to help rebuild school cafeterias, open summer meal programs and provide assistance for restaurant workers affected by the storm in 2005. About BUCA Inc. BUCA, Inc., a public company headquartered in Minneapolis, owns and operates 93 highly acclaimed Italian restaurants under the name Buca di Beppo in 24 states and the District of Columbia District of Columbia, federal district (2000 pop. 572,059, a 5.7% decrease in population since the 1990 census), 69 sq mi (179 sq km), on the east bank of the Potomac River, coextensive with the city of Washington, D.C. (the capital of the United States). . |
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