It is a gimmick with heart: the restaurant will donate $1 of the price per person to City Harvest, which provides food for the homeless.

It is being sold to help a program that encourages restaurants to donate food to shelters and soup kitchens.

The restaurant donates at least $10,000 to Glide each year to host the auction lunch.

Make a reservation, go out to dinner and the restaurant will donate part of the proceeds to charity.

The participating restaurants donate the food, the equipment and the time.

The restaurant donated about 14,000 oysters a week to the alliance in 2010.

Using contributions from its suppliers, the restaurant will donate $20 to the Red Cross for each meal.

A restaurant donated the barbecue.

Next, the group invited restaurants to donate food, which volunteers prepared and served.

Both restaurants are donating 100 percent of dessert sales including their excellent cheesecake served with strawberry coulis.