Keeping Local Restaurants Cooking: 144 Restaurants to Receive $3,000 Resilience Grants
14 Junho 2022 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
The PG&E Corporation Foundation Supporting
Restaurants with Ongoing Pandemic Recovery
California restaurants still struggling with impacts of the
pandemic are getting a boost from the California Restaurant
Foundation (CRF) and The PG&E Corporation Foundation
(Foundation). The Foundation’s $500,000 charitable contribution to
CRF will fund $3,000 grants to 144 hometown restaurants in 28
counties in Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) service
area, as well as operating support for CRF.
The Foundation’s contribution to CRF’s Restaurants Care
Resilience Fund will help grantees pay for equipment upgrades to
alleviate deferred maintenance, and for employee retention to help
with industry-wide staffing shortages, both of which have been on
the backburner for the last two years due to increased debt, losses
and costs.
“Independent and locally-owned restaurants add vibrancy and
uniqueness to every city, which is why the Resilience Fund is so
important,” said Alycia Harshfield, Executive Director of CRF.
“Restaurant owners have worked tirelessly over the last two years
to keep doors open and feed their community, and we’re grateful to
PG&E and The PG&E Corporation Foundation for their support
the past two years, recognizing that it’s critical to continue to
support and invest in local restaurants.”
Grants were made available to California resident restaurant
owners with fewer than three units and less than $3 million in
revenue, and prioritized minority- and women-owned businesses.
PG&E’s and The Foundation’s combined $1 million in charitable
contributions in 2021 and 2022 have supported 319 local
restaurants.
“Our hometown restaurants are the heartbeat of many local
communities. They’re where we mark milestones, celebrate events big
and small, and reconnect with family, friends and coworkers. We’re
grateful for the California Restaurant Foundation’s leadership in
helping this important industry rebound and recover so we can all
keep making memories together,” said PG&E Corporation Executive
Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Chief Sustainability
Officer Carla Peterman.
Assisting Small and Medium Businesses
PG&E remains committed to providing ways for its small and
medium business customers to save energy and money amid the
economic hardships suffered during the pandemic. Here are some ways
PG&E is helping its customers:
- Automatically enrolling qualified customers in PG&E’s COVID
Relief Payment Plan to help pay down balances over time, protecting
from disconnection.
- Contacting business customers who would save money by choosing
a better rate plan for their operations, in line with changing peak
hours for time-of-use rate plans.
- Providing COVID-19 relief and support information to all small
business customers, including PG&E resources and external
support for businesses like California state programs.
- Increasing outreach to small business customers highlighting
payment support and energy-savings programs through email
campaigns, PG&E’s Energy Advisors, and direct mail.
- Conducting outreach to eligible customers to enroll in a
discounted rate for businesses struggling to stay open.
- Offering rebate and financing solutions to help small business
customers realize sustained cost savings.
For more information on PG&E Small and Medium Business
customer support visit pge.com/smbsupport.
For more information on the California Restaurant Foundation,
Restaurants Care, or the Restaurant Resilience Fund, visit
restaurantscare.org.
About PG&E
Pacific Gas and Electric Company, a subsidiary of PG&E
Corporation (NYSE:PCG), is a combined natural gas and electric
utility serving more than 16 million people across 70,000 square
miles in Northern and Central California. For more information,
visit www.pge.com/ and
http://www.pge.com/about/newsroom/.
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