I’m doing some general research. In my town at least, every few months Chick-Gil-A goes and partners with some underfunded school or club with something like “say you’re from [school] and 10% of profits go to [club]!” Did anything similar happen while you were in school?

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  2. All the time. Chick-fil-A, Texas roadhouse, raising canes lots of restaurants sponsor all kinds of things

  4. Fairly common. Though they more sponsored limited things than permanent things. Things like a food fair, a fundraiser, etc. Doing something permanent like having the club have their brand name wasn’t common and it felt more like a inner city school thing.

  5. Sometimes places like Chick-fil-A or Panda Express would have fundraisers where you just say you’re buying for ____ School or ___ Club and they’ll give them part of the profits. Usually just for sports teams or other clubs, not for the school at large.

  6. There were usually one every other month or so where X place would give usually about 10% of sales one night from people that mention Y school. Elementary school that is. Middle & High school were kinda on their own.

  8. A lot of different businesses would sponsor different things at our school, from the yearbook to sporting events to state competitions.

  9. Local restaurants sponsor the school or school events all the time. Where I teach now they’ll get their logo on the matting on the side of the track field. These are affluent districts so it’s not done solely in disasvantaged districts.

    The diner in my hometown holds a scholarship fund every year that goes to a student in the school. That’s not directly sponsoring the schools, but the students. They sponsor school sports teams from elementary to high school as well. It’s very sweet.

  11. Restaurant profit shares have been really common in every district I’ve lived in, yeah. Maybe every couple of weeks?

    Usually it’s for either the school or a sports team or sports in general, with other clubs being far behind in frequency.

    The go-to profit share when I was little was a Mexican joint called Pancho’s which I still miss lol.

  13. I went to a Catholic school so that wasn’t really a thing, but it’s definitely not uncommon for major corporations to have a program where they invest in the local communities they serve. I worked at Target for several years when I was younger and I know they sponsored local programs for at-risk youth, habitat for humanity, national night out, etc.

    There was a corkboard display near the front of the store showing pictures from various events the store sponsored or team members volunteered to help run

  14. Yes, I have had that experience when I was a kid.

    There are also several local businesses in my current city that are known to do this kind of thing. E.G. Monday 1/16 is Monroe Elementary Day, come to our restaurant and present this flyer and we give 10% of your check to Monroe Elementary” and that kind of thing.

  15. Never happened when I was a kid back in the Dark Ages but it happens once or twice a year at the school I teach at.

  16. It was pretty common at my school but my family never really participated. My parents would much rather just donate directly to the school instead of going out of there way to buy $40 worth of Chick-fil-a only for $4 to go to the school.

  17. Small town PA, all the time. Hell we still get them to sponsor adult league softball and volleyball teams.

  18. Fundraiser nights were common. They would run off a bunch of sheets of paper that you could take to a restaurant that was running the promotion and they would donate a small portion to the school.

    Local businesses would also take out ads in our yearbook but this was to keep costs down.

  19. Sort of…. If you were in band, cheer, or football the students could sell cards which got you a discount at certain restaurants in the area. The restaurants and shops volunteer and kids sell them for like $10 or $20, the proceeds go to the school or group that is selling. Sometimes it’s just a single card, and other times it’s like coupons — like a free cheese dip or soda with a meal.

  21. The sports teams for the high school each sell $10 cards that get you discounts are certain businesses in the area some restaurants, some retail, and some auto. There is also actual use coupon book that one of the school systems did that has probably 100+ coupons to restaurants and other things in surrounding areas. Other than that I think Applebee’s is the only place that sponsors a normal club and thats the Key Club when they hold their pancake breakfast

  22. Yeah our kid’s elementary school has a night every month or so of something along the lines of “5% of sales tonight will go to the school” if you mention your child goes there. Typically we avoid the restraunt ones because they get slammed so bad, but they do it at breweries too and those usually are a good time.

  23. It was much more common for restaurants and small businesses to sponsor Little League teams. Their name was usually on the uniform somewhere.

  26. Never happened in my school. It happens with my kids school occasionally though – maybe 2-3 times a year.

  27. I don’t remember it happening as a kid, but it happens at my kids’ schools all the time.

  28. I have no idea what this means, but that might be from going to a private Catholic high school. Closest I remember is the raffle where for every ten tickets sold we got a day-off pass (up to 3) and the similar raffle to benefit the OSFS and associated on-campus Sisters (ten tickets, one pass).

    These were good to use on any day of classes. I haven’t worked or been in class on my birthday since 1998.

  30. I’m not familiar with *all* of the occurrences, but many sports teams would do a “pancake breakfast” at Applebee’s (I specifically did this, I believe other local resturaunts had similar things). Where basically the members of the team would come into the Applebee’s on some Saturday morning and we’d serve pancakes to people. All the money people paid for their breakfast as well as any donations went straight to the team (Applebee’s basically donated their store, ingredients, and some manning the grill for a morning).

    (Just to be clear. It wasnt *great*. It honestly wasn’t bad, but noones just swinging into an Applebee’s in off hours for pancakes. Everyone there was either friend/family of a member of the team, a teacher/coach, or a former member of the team or something like that.)

    Beyond that I’m not sure. A lot of different clubs seemed to have a bunch of different ways to earn money. I think car washes at local gas stations was probably more common than the resturaunt stuff though.

  32. It was the local grocery store when I was a kid. Collect box tops. They’d host pancake fundraiser in their parking lot as well.

    As I got older, it was the local pizza place. Not coincidentally, that was also where people went after little league, high school plays, games. Like a dollar per pie I think.

  33. Local businesses could buy advertising in the yearbooks and programs that were handed out at school events, and restaurants donated some food for the all-night post-graduation party (though technically that was a private offsite event run by parents and not an official school event, but all graduating seniors were invited). I think that was it.

  34. The big strip club in town would quietly make big donations to the high school athletic department every year.

  35. Yeah they don’t really go out looking for school stuff to sponsor, at least they don’t here. The committees (parents) organizing the events go around asking businesses for their support. It was my job for a 5k one year to benefit the track and cross country teams.

    A bunch of places sponsor a lot of things for small amounts, that’s the most common.

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