Keeping Local Restaurants Cooking: 114 Restaurants to Receive $3,000 Resilience Grants in Second Round of Financial Support This Year
02 Dezembro 2022 - 01:38PM
Business Wire
The PG&E Corporation Foundation Continues
Supporting Restaurants with Pandemic Recovery
Just in time for the holidays, Northern and Central California
restaurants are getting a second boost this year from the
California Restaurant Foundation (CRF) and The PG&E Corporation
Foundation (Foundation). The Foundation’s latest $400,000
charitable contribution to CRF will fund $3,000 grants to 114
hometown restaurants in 23 counties in Pacific Gas and Electric
Company’s (PG&E) service area, as well as operating support for
CRF.
The Foundation’s additional contribution to CRF’s Restaurants
Care Resilience Fund will help restaurants 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. The recent funding follows a
$500,000 contribution earlier this year.
“We were elated by the additional contribution from The PG&E
Corporation Foundation, bringing our total grants awarded in 2022
in the PG&E service area to 258 independent restaurants. These
grants allow the restaurant owners to thank their longstanding and
much appreciated crew with a retention bonus or invest in equipment
to help their restaurants run safely and efficiently. What an
extraordinary gift to give, especially this time of year. Together,
we are spreading a bit of joy and letting restaurants know how much
we value their contribution to our neighborhoods,” said Alycia
Harshfield, Executive Director, California Restaurant
Foundation.
For the past two years, PG&E and The Foundation have
supported CRF’s Restaurants Care Resilience Fund. Grants have been
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 and The
Foundation’s combined $1.4 million in charitable contributions in
2021 and 2022 have supported 367 local restaurants.
Watch a video of one of the earlier spring grant recipients, Las
Mañanitas restaurant in Fresno.
“Our hometown restaurants are the heart and soul of our
communities, and they represent how small businesses help our local
neighborhoods thrive. As we head into the holiday season, where
food and gathering are central to our celebrations, we welcome the
opportunity to support the industry that provides meals and
neighborhood gathering spots. We are also grateful to our partners
at the California Restaurant Foundation for their dedication to
helping our local restaurants continue their path to recovery,”
said PG&E Executive Vice President, 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. Here are some
ways PG&E is helping its customers:
- Contacting business customers who would save money by choosing
a better rate plan for their operations — projected to save
customers over $1.5 million in 2022.
- Providing COVID-19 relief and support information to all small
business customers, including PG&E resources and external
support for businesses such as 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/.
About The PG&E Corporation Foundation
The PG&E Corporation Foundation is an independent 501(c)(3)
nonprofit organization, separate from PG&E and sponsored by
PG&E Corporation.
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