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Default Dining Minimum - Charities? Got the Scoop

On 12/11/2013 10:11 PM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
> ...
>> On 12/11/2013 1:31 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>>>
>>> "jmcquown" > wrote in message
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>>>> 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?



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