According to this, Hooters is going to pay FEMA for the $200.00 bottle of Dom Perignon champagne bought with Hurricane Katrina relief money at one of its restaurants.
This is a great example of good corporate citizenship, irrespective of the small amount of this particular incident. It’s not like Hooters hadn’t already done its part. From the article:
Following Katrina, Brooks sent one of his Hooters Air 737s loaded with supplies into the Gulf Coast disaster area. The restaurant chain also donated $225,000 to the Red Cross Katrina relief fund.
I had no idea that such a high dollar potable was available there. I never had occasion to look, believing as I do that the perfect beverage to accompany Hooters wings is a big schooner of ice-cold beer. And another.
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It never ceases to amaze me the level some people will stoop to when others offer them a helping hand. I guess their excuse was that they were thirsty. After all, running from a hurricane can make one parched. Those FEMA debit cards should have had restrictions built into them. I don’t even know if that could even be done. Nevertheless, kudos goes out to Hooters for doing the right thing.
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You know, I worked as a Java Enterprise Edition developer consultant for Citibank, oh almost ten years ago. My team and I made the website where Citibank credit card holders could see almost real-time histories of their credit transactions. And there was a field that held the “purchase category ID” or something like that. Restaurants had a specific ID number, as did service-oriented places like attorney offices. It should have been possible for these debit cards to be limited to allow payments for only certain places.
I guess this is just more proof of the incompetence of our federal overlords.
Maybe it was Chase-Manhattan Bank. I worked for both at about the same period of time, as a consultant for the same consulting sweatshop. Either way, the technology was there eight to nine years ago, and I’m certain that field is still provided by merchants with their transactions today.