Toronto restaurant forgoes wages to help Turkish earthquake relief effort
“When it happened, eight, nine, 10 — all our income coming into the restaurant — we’re going to donate or we’re going to buy stuff to send it to Turkey.
And we also talked with our staff as well [and said] ‘Okay, you don’t have to, but if you are willing to, we can send your wages as well,'” he explained.Yapicilar said the response was overwhelming, and that he along with several others are forgoing their pay for a week to ensure much-needed supplies are sent to the nation.
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