Jake’s Hamburgers in Delaware announced today that they will be holding a fundraising event on behalf of the family of Delaware City Firefighter Michelle Smith, killed in the line of duty.

The event will be held on Thursday, January 8, 2009 from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. at all Jake’s Hamburger locations in Delaware.

Jake’s will donate 20% of all sales that day to the trust fund that has been established for the benefit of Michelle’s daughter,

“The Emily A. Burge Trust Fund,”

c/o the Delaware City Fire Company

815 5th St
Delaware City, DE 19706
(302) 392-1783

www.dcfc15.com

In addition, Firefighters will be on hand at each location throughout the day to accept donations on behalf of Michelle’s family.

Please join us in supporting this very worthy cause, and in honoring Michelle’s service to our community. For more information on this event, please contact Jeff Smith by email at jsmith@vhc27.com.

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Great post! I'm not a fan of Jake's Burgers (taste like Wendy's), but I'll swing by to make a donation.

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Drinking alcohol in Kentucky is considered being "sober" until you cannot hold on to the ground.

Figures, I have to work.

Curly, Jakes is right up the road from St. 8. I'm going over for lunch, so I'll donate for you also. My pleasure.

Most locations will deliver. Just a thought.
Never had Jake's before so I guess it's a good reason to go try it!

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I'm working out on the elliptical machine for 45 min today so I can go eat like a piggy tonight!

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I'm calling now. We've got a hundred dollar order, here.

I need my Jake Burger and Chocolate Shake, dagnabbit!

did they take your order?

I can't get through. Busy for 10 minutes.

I just faxed them a note asking if they are even taking walk-in orders.

Doesn't look good. For lunch, that is. Looks like it's great for Jakes and the fundraiser, though.

True.

We're sending someone to go try to walk in, with a backup plan in place in case it's just ridiculous.

No reply to my fax, either! Those busy bastids!

I did my treadmill, the bike and the Wii Fit! I can have a 7 course meal!!! LOL

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My give a damn is broken.

I think this fundraiser only applies to the Delaware locations...

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"Garbage In, Garbage Out"
-G. Carlin

Jake's expanded the fund raiser to all Delaware, Maryland and Pa. locations, or so they said. We went to 273 just after 11:00 and we filled the place almost instantly. We had police, fire, ambulance, Highway Dept. trucks and a lot of local hospital and Dr. office folks coming in. It was a friendly mob scene but we all had to wait a very long time. They finally had to stop answering the phone and begged people to give them 2 hours to catch up. I'd suggest going for late lunch or even dinner instead. Even call- ins and e-mail orders are being filled very slowly. I think this is much, much bigger than they had expected.

Like Scrap said...it's a total win-win. Not surprised it took off so well.

I hope they raised a boatload of money today, and I hope Jake's shatters sales records for their generosity.

***Never did get my Jakes.

They'll be open 'till 9:00 unless they run out of cows.

I'm thinking we'll do a later dinner tonight.
I've been reading on the Mom's site that some of them have been turned away and that some of the locations were mobbed and couldn't handle the volume, but people are running in to donate money anyway without food. God bless 'em for having such a great turnout though!