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Monday, August 15, 2005
McDonald’s gets awards
McDonald’s Philippines has renewed for another year the financial and logistic assistance it has been giving to the porters of Tagbilaran city since June 2004 and its collaboration with them through their cooperative.
This developed as the city government of Tagbilaran awarded the popular fastfood chain as one of the city’s top three corporate taxpayers, three months after the City Health Department cited its lone restaurant at BQ Mall for providing customers with clean and safe water.
Tagbilaran City Mayor Dan Neri Lim handed McDonald’s the recognition as top corporate taxpayer during the city’s 39th Charter Day celebration last July 1, along with San Miguel Corp. and Coca Cola Bottlers Philippines, Inc. Arlene Salarda, McDonald’s restaurant manager, accepted the recognition.
“The award the city gave us should be a clear indication,” Salarda told the press when asked how the restaurant was doing in its two years of operations in Bohol. “We are very thankful to the Boholanos for loving McDonald’s. We paid more in taxes to the city because the Boholanos are patronizing us.”
The City Health Department announced in mid-March that only McDonald’s, among the various food service operators in the city, passed the standards it had set on water quality.
“As our City Government could now attest, our customers are assured that we use clean water in our drinks that our customers take in and in our daily operations,” Salarda remarked.
P1.5k/month
Meanwhile, McDonald’s handed the Tagbilaran porters another set of vests that they will use while serving traveling passengers at the Port of Tagbilaran as it renewed its assistance to the Tagbilaran Porters Multi-Purpose Cooperative (TPMC).
The company committed to continue giving TPMC P1,500 every month as it had been doing since June 2004, disclosed Salarda.
Ronald McDonald, chief happiness officer of the company and its chief goodwill ambassador, declared during a press conference that Mc Donald’s is one with the porters in serving people, the reason for the support the company is giving them.
“As we, in McDonald’s, serve our customers, we relate with the porters as they serve passengers,” he told the reporters. “As people are served by the porters wearing vests with the McDonald’s logo, they somehow may get the message that, when in McDonald’s, they will be similarly served well.”
In his remarks during the simple turnover ceremonies at the second floor of the Starlight passenger terminal building, Erwin “Ewing” Lomosot, TPMC chairman, said the porters are very thankful for the support McDonald’s has been giving them. |
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