Mini-restaurant fundraisers are a popular choice for fundraising among many different organizations. The reason is that they are low-maintenance. You rely on the restaurant itself to provide the attraction, there is no front-money involved, and in most cases they even provide you with the flyers. However, as easy as they sound to set up, they also come with some complications. For one, each restaurant comes with different rules and stipulations. In our case, this became and issue because we were functioning as a campaign, doing weekly fundraisers. It would have been much easier if the restaurants had the same rules and stipulations for streamlining purposes. It also limits the amount of money you can make off the event. The other unforeseen complication is that most of the checks have to go through corporate so it takes forever to get them. As it stands we are still waiting for 2 checks that we earned back in November.. So the convenience is robbed by having to go through another organization.
For this reason I have come up with the idea of a 50/50 or other kind of raffle. By setting up the event on our own we can maintain full control of the earnings.
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