On Wed, 11 Dec 2013 13:46:33 -0500, jmcquown >
wrote:

>On 12/11/2013 1:31 PM, Ophelia wrote:
>>
>>
>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
>> ...
>>> Nope. I cannot appy the DIC (happy, Steve? LOL) dining minimum to
>>> charity. Here's the email answer I received:
>>>
>>> "You may not donate your dining minimum to a charitable organization.
>>> There were several opportunities this year to donate towards the cost of
>>> dinner/lunch for groups having events at the Club, however, those have
>>> already been held and paid for. You will probably have the chance to do
>>> this next year, so keep an eye on emails requesting contributions for the
>>> Beaufort High School Football Banquet and the Lunch with Santa for
>>> military children."
>>>
>>> Okay, mea culpa! I admit I passed up those "opportunities" because the
>>> way I read them I did NOT realize they would be applied against the
>>> dining
>>> minimum. It sounded like they were just begging for more money on top of
>>> money.
>>>
>>
>> Good luck with getting anything out of them. You should get all the food
>> from them you can and give it all to a food bank! I know all this is
>> agreed in the terms but I still think they rip you off any which way
>>
>The problem with buying food from the Club and giving it to the food
>bank is I doubt they'd accept already cooked food in styrofoam to-go
>containers. Nor in freezer containers. They wouldn't take it because
>for all they knew the food could have been sitting in the trunk of my
>car for *days*. Thank you for the suggestion, but that wouldn't work.
>
>Jill

You can invite like ten homeless winos to dinner at the club.