"jmcquown" > wrote in message
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> 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.

Could you round up a bunch of bums and have lunch with them?