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Bartender.

I'll have another finally there's a really good reason you can feel good about drinking even more because at Texas bar.

Has agreed to donate a 100% of its profits to charity they call it.

Poker charities -- -- -- Google is.

Our guest this morning he joins us live from -- body good -- Good morning -- -- fine thanks very much so explain this you are a business you are out to make money but a 100% of the profits go to charity right.

Absolutely -- certified 501 C six based in Houston we operate like a regular bar.

We buy booze we pay our employees read the paper broken plumbing and we just pass all the money off their different charity every month so.

So -- someone goes in Bobby into -- what did they do to.

Make a donation.

They buy a drink a -- and it.

Yeah yeah like any other are you just buy a drink you know whatever your favorite beverages that choice -- -- -- body by Jake.

Jared yeah didn't he did tonight.

Yet it's four nominees each month how many get to vote for which one you want to see become the beneficiary and then at the end of the month.

We pass a 100% of the profits for the following off month off to that charity and so I just rotates every single month.

And -- it's eighteen and there's so many different charities because it is some of them are go to aids -- needy families who need furniture or.

-- charity that come that sad childhood obesity so.

And it's something everybody can relate to and who doesn't want to rally around a nice cocktail right.

Absolutely I feel like there's a lot of different charities that.

Need attention not just money in Houston and I think that we help facilitate both a little bit of awareness about that the great things that are going on on our community and -- passing off a little bit of dollars as well.

Bobby what's the matter with you if you're going -- business she should be how to make money for yourself put it in your own pocket why you -- -- put it in the pockets of other people.

Well I think that all of us here involved in this there's about twenty years so restaurant -- Houston we have our own places.

We just wanted to find a way to give back to the community that's been so good to us and I think that people.

Need to remember that restaurants and bars more than anything else -- community spaces and so it's that relationship between the the city that we live in in the places that we own.

That area that's important test and it's it's a relationship that exists outside the walls of our independent businesses right now -- We should we we should point out that the people who work there and you you're not volunteers everybody gets paid.

But after he paid everybody off and paid for the Budweiser -- then you did give the money to charity right.

-- that's correct I don't get paid but our employees get paid -- And after after you know they get paid their fair wages and and we pay for everything else all the money goes to charity we're gonna try and raise about.

101000 dollars a month for charity that's our goal we've been getting a lot of support lately so I think that will actually you know get to the -- we can even be better than that so we're we're excited about that.

Buddy thank you so much and there are other bars like this and there's one in Washington DC and maybe there'll be some -- future Bobby thank you so much.

Thank you thanks haven't you feel good about it.

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