Today is the annual America Eats for Israel, where kosher restaurants around the United States commit to donating 10% of their gross revenues for the day to American Friends of Meir Panim (AFMP). Â AFMP is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting programs in Israel that provide daily hot, nourishing meals and enrichment activities to children and adults across the country and from all backgrounds including Holocaust survivors, victims of terror and new immigrants.
Although now a nationwide program, America Eats for Israel was started here in Baltimore. Â Below is a list of restaurants that are participating this year, make sure to stop by and support them today if you have a chance.
- Accents Grill
- Caramel’s
- Cocoaccinos
- David Chu’s China Bistro
- Dunkin Donuts (7000 Reisterstown Rd)
- Eden Café (Park Heights and Owings Mills locations)
- Goldberg’s Bagels
- Kosher Subway
- Mama Leah’s Pizza
- Milk and Honey Bistro
- Royal Restaurant
- Tov Pizza
Thanks to all the restaurants who are participating. Â For more information, visit America Eats for Israel’s website.
For a map of Baltimore’s kosher restaurants, check out our Baltimore Kosher Restaurants map.
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While I suppose every little bit helps, I’m not the biggest fan of this program. 10%? Really? On a family level even if you go out to Accents you spend what – $100? That’s $10. Dunkin Donuts? What’s that like $1? Pizza? maybe $4? How much do these restaurants make on a given night? Why not just encourage every single person who walks into the restaurant to donate $10? I feel like you’d get a lot farther that way.
Yes, you are too cynical. You’re obviously not familiar with the concept of incentivization.
Is it just me or was there much less publicity this year? I wondered whether they were having it at all and did not see any posters hanging (though I don’t generally go out to eat too much), nor did I receive a phone call as in previous years.
And I agree with “Cynical,” in the past I have indeed given the Rambam students an straight-out donation when I couldn’t go out to eat on that day. The tzedakah organization certainly made more from that then the $4-$5 they would have gotten from my family eating out. That said, if people can, they should still support the restaurants and businesses who are kind enough to participate. They gain a lot of revenue from this program as well.
I’m confused. If I go out to eat, then I spend the same amount of money as I otherwise would, and 10% goes to Israel. If they don’t have this program and I make a $5-$10 donation; well, that’s $5-$10 more that I have to spend to get the same amount of $$ to Israel. I also think it’s important to support the local restaurants. No brainer to me.
Couldn’t restaurants do more than 10%? I mean how much do the Pizza stores for instance make on a given night? I’d be curious to know.
Come on. Give the restaurants a break. With so many of them and times so tough economically today, what makes you think they can even afford 10% more then any one of us can afford to proportionally? Most kosher restaurateurs are not listed in the fortune 500
It is happenstance which my husband and I went out to dinner. We had no idea that day was Israel’s day. We have not seen any advertisements at all. Previously, there were advertisements. What’s the story here?