Jon Bon Jovi has been one of world’s biggest rock stars for over three decades, has eaten at some of the best restaurants and tasted some of the best dishes, now opens his own restaurant for charity.
"With the economic downturn, one of the things I noticed was that disposable income was one of the first things that went," Bon Jovi told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday before the restaurant’s grand opening ceremony.
"Dining out, the family going out to a restaurant, mom not having to cook, dad not having to clean up – a lot of memories were made around restaurant tables.
Yahoo News reports that it began several years ago when Dorothea Bongiovi (she uses the legal spelling of her husband’s name) and Jon started out helping at a food pantry near St. Anthony’s Roman Catholic Church. Later on they moved their focus to the Lunch Break Program, which feeds about 80 to 120 people per day. They brought the name with them to a former auto body shop down the street from the Count Basie Theater, where Jon and his band have played many fundraising shows for charity. It took a year and $250,000, but the restaurant now rivals it’s competitors.
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