{"id":149232,"date":"2026-01-25T20:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149232\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T20:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T20:22:09","slug":"san-diego-restaurant-week-gives-back-to-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/149232\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Restaurant Week gives back to workers"},"content":{"rendered":"

San Diego Restaurant Week is back and for eight days, you can eat your way across the county without overspending. <\/p>\n

More than 100 restaurants in over 30 neighborhoods are taking part this time around, offering two-course lunches and three-course dinners starting at just $20. <\/p>\n

But this year, Restaurant Week is not only giving customers a good meal for a good price, its also focused on giving back.<\/p>\n

For the first time, they\u2019ve partnered with non profit Restaurants Care<\/a> a fund that’s helped over 3,000 families find hope during life\u2019s toughest moments. <\/p>\n

Employees like local Gabriel Servin, who’s been bartending at Old Towns’ Casa de Reyes for 16 years, has been one of the thousands helped through the fund. <\/p>\n

\"Gabriel<\/p>\n

Gabriel Servin<\/p>\n

Gabriel Servin pictured with his two daughters. <\/p>\n

Eight years ago, he lost his wife in a car accident in which his two daughters where also involved in. Suddenly, he found himself navigating grief, recovery, and parenthood all at once.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy daughter resulted with a broken leg and ribs and arms. I had to stop working for about 4 weeks to stay with my daughters,” Gabriel says. <\/p>\n

He was grateful to have an understanding employer, who worked around his new need to care for his daughters.<\/p>\n

“When you work in the restaurant, it’s really hard to have holidays, or weekends off, or to even move your schedule as you need it. But they [Casa de Reyes] gave me that option,” Gabriel says. <\/p>\n

After the accident, and during the time he stepped away from work, Gabriels’ team at Casa de Reyes applied on his behalf for a Restaurants Care grant. He won, and ended up receiving about $1,500, money that helped cover the weeks he couldn\u2019t work. <\/p>\n

But Gabriel says the impact went far beyond finances; \u201cOf course it helped me a lot because I had stopped working for 4 weeks,” Gabriel says. “But it was more emotional. It was great to feel that we weren’t alone…it was like a warm hug.” <\/p>\n

This year, a portion of the proceeds from restaurants\u2019 registration fees for San Diego Restaurant Week will go directly to Restaurants Care, hoping to support more workers like Gabriel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"San Diego Restaurant Week is back and for eight days, you can eat your way across the county…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":149233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[73974,73973,71309,74,76,75],"class_list":["post-149232","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-casa-de-reyes","tag-gabriel-servin","tag-restaurant-week","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149232","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/149233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}