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Help Community Non-Profits By Dining

At Any Columbia Restaurant In September For 

 17th Annual Columbia Community Harvest

TAMPA, Fla., June 23, 2014 – Let your appetite do the giving while you support local non-profit groups in Florida by dining at any of the seven Columbia locations in Florida during the entire month of September for lunch or dinner during the 17^th Annual Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest program.

Through this program, The Columbia donates 5% of all guests’ lunch and dinner checks to the charitable organizations chosen by their customers during September.  The Community Harvest occurs in all of the Columbia locations including Ybor City in the historic district of Tampa, St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, St. Augustine, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida’s Town of Celebration, the Columbia Cafe on the Riverwalk in Downtown Tampa at the Tampa Bay History Center and the Columbia Restaurant Cafe at Tampa International Airport.  All Columbia locations are open seven days a week for lunch and dinner.  For more information, see www.ColumbiaRestaurant.com

“We started this program in 1998 as a way to help many of the worthy non-profit groups that are so important to our communities,” said 4^th generation family member and president Richard Gonzmart.  “We thought the best way to do this was by letting our customers get involved in selecting the organizations.  The process is simple.  They just put a check mark next to one of the charitable organizations listed on a form we provide.  They turn it in to their server.  We do the rest, and donate 5% to the charity.”

Over the past 16 years, the Columbia Restaurant Community Harvest has donated more than $1.5 million to non-profit organizations throughout Florida.  

The original Columbia Restaurant was founded in Tampa’s Historic Ybor City in 1905 by Cuban immigrant Casimiro Hernandez, Sr., and is now Florida’s oldest restaurant.  Additional Columbia locations include St. Armands Circle in Sarasota, the Historic District in St. Augustine, Sand Key on Clearwater Beach, Central Florida's town of Celebration, the Columbia Cafe on the Riverwalk in Tampa and the Columbia Restaurant Cafe at Tampa International Airport. All Columbia locations are owned and operated by 4th and 5th generation members of the founding family except for Columbia Restaurant Cafe at Tampa International Airport, which is operated in partnership with HMSHost. Please see www.ColumbiaRestaurant.com for more information.