Employees of the Epicurious Restaurant Group have been selling handmade ties and donating the proceeds to a local charity. The ties are designed and made by Paula Patterson and Mandy Griffith, both employees.
To promote tie sales, restaurant employees have been wearing the ties along with buttons designed with festive reindeer. The buttons read, "Buy my tie; ask me why." Proceeds from the $10 ties have gone to Sub for Santa programs.Originally, the ties were designed to be sold at the annual employee Christmas party, but they decided to sell the ties to customers, too.
Epicurious restaurants include American Grill, Baja Grill, Eibo's and Ferrantelli's.
- Trolley Square management has donated more than 200 live poinsettias to University Hospital to decorate the hallways and pillars and brighten the hospital for the holidays.
- The Salt Lake Community Shelter and Resource Center will receive $125,000 to support shelter operations from the George Eccles Foundation.
The money will be presented Thursday by Spencer Eccles, chairman and CEO of First Security Corporation, who is also president of the foundation.
The foundation was established to honor Eccles' uncle.
- NEPHI - Local families who are down on their luck and want a Christmas tree this year can thank the local Soil Conservation Service for serving as elves.
The department turned over several trees to the local Human Services Department for distribution.
The trees were donated by an anonymous source and employees donated their own time and effort to cut more than 50 trees to be distributed to various locations in Juab, Sevier and Sanpete counties. SCS employees hope to make this an annual event.