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title: "Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation Forms Coronavirus Relief Fund"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/e4d6634e-adcd-4cec-8cd1-c7865a87fcc7
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-workers-community-foundation-forms-coronavirus-relief-fund-2712537
category: "Restaurants"
industry: "Restaurants"
topics: ["Regulation & legal","Operations"]
published: 2020-03-17T15:10:02.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:01:52.394Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/92415bf3ed667c4844424eefbed0e3d44172.jpg
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# Restaurant Workers’ Community Foundation Forms Coronavirus Relief Fund

**TL;DR:** The Restaurant Workers' Community Foundation forms a Coronavirus Relief Fund to support restaurant workers affected by shutdowns. The foundation will update its homepage with news and support and has provided a link for contributions to the fund.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2020-03-17. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-workers-community-foundation-forms-coronavirus-relief-fund-2712537).*

## Story

The Grub Street report noted that restaurant workers do not get the benefit of paid time off and that undocumented immigrants are in even worse shape from restaurant shutdowns.

The RWCF has promised to update its homepage with news and support and also provided a link on its website for those who want to contribute to the fund.

“Up until now, RWCF has been relatively light on direct pleas for donations, and that was for a reason,” RWCF co-founder and board president John deBary said in a statement . “We wanted to build a history of successful work before asking people to trust us with their charitable dollars. The coronavirus crisis has upended that strategy—we need to start working to help the most vulnerable among us NOW.”

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- coronavirus relief (topic)
- restaurant workers (topic)
- shutdowns (topic)
- charitable fund (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/restaurant-workers-community-foundation-forms-coronavirus-relief-fund-2712537). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/e4d6634e-adcd-4cec-8cd1-c7865a87fcc7).