MEMBER NEWS
LaHaise Management Hosts Annual Breakfast
to Support Disabled American Veterans
O
n Oct. 31, 2015, LaHaise Management hosted its annual
Disabled American Veterans (DAV) breakfast. This is the
fourth consecutive year DAV and the BWW in Grand Forks,
North Dakota, have coordinated the breakfast to commemorate
Veterans Day. Buffalo Wild Wings® supplies the space and some
cooks while DAV brings their own pancake mix, sausage and
BWW because it wouldn’t disrupt
any business in our store,”said
Groven.
DAV furnishes most of the
workers through their members.
Amazon, the Internet-based
retailer, has partnered with DAV
on previous fundraising efforts
The sign welcoming patrons
and also provided four staff
to the annual DAV pancake
members to help with the morn- and sausage breakfast.
ing’s work for the 2015 event.“We
have two of the DAV members in
the kitchen cooking the pancakes and sausages — with some
help from myself or one of our heart-of-house staff. The DAV
volunteers take and bring out the beverage orders, serve the
plates and clean up when finished. The BWW staff comes in
a little earlier than normal to help with cleanup and to set the
store up for lunch,”continued Groven.“We enjoy participating
in this event and love to offer our restaurant to help a great
organization with some fundraising. Every year is different with
the volunteers and the attendees. The volunteers all have a really
good time working in the fast-paced restaurant.” S
The 2015 DAV pancake and sausage breakfast had more
attendees than ever before and raised $2,300 for the organization, which supports disable