Gas Light Co. employees will eat for free at this burger joint after four-alarm fire
A four-alarm fire raged through the Gas Light Co. restaurant in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, on Wednesday morning.
It has left the three-floor restaurant in the 170-year-old building closed for at least a week, and owner Paul Sorli told Seacoastonline.com it will be longer than that.
“Obviously, our number one concern is our staff and employees,’’ he said.
Sorli told Seacoastonline.com that the restaurant employs 100 people in the winter, who will now all be out of work during the holiday season.
The BRGR Bar, a well-known modernized burger joint in Portsmouth, wanted to help.
The restaurant posted to Facebook Thursday afternoon that they will partner with Favorite Foods, an independent restaurant food distributor in New Hampshire, to offer all Gas Light employees the option to eat for free through December.
Carolyn Gregory, the BRGR bar’s general manager, said a Favorite Foods sales representative thought up the idea of splitting the cost of the “Eat Free December’’ for employees who show an ID and old pay stub.
“We wanted to do something just to help out the employees,’’ Gregory told Boston.com. “Most people working in the restaurant business are living pay check to pay check so being out of work for who knows how long can be traumatic.’’
Gregory said she hopes the entire community of Portsmouth can rally around the Gas Light Co.
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