TheWannabeAnarchist
7th January 2014, 22:40
http://au.news.yahoo.com/world/a/20645471/man-puts-restaurant-up-for-sale-to-help-pay-for-employees-brain-tumor-treatment/
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This story got me in a good mood today. It's incredible that even in our cruel, Darwinian society, people are still willing to do things like this.
De Beyer wants to sell his German restaurant, Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, not because the rathskeller business has taken a turn for the wurst, but rather, he says, to help pay for treatment for one of his employees, 19-year-old Brittany Mathis. She was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour the size of a pingpong ball, reports KHOU-11.
De Beyer told The Courier he wants to sell his 6,000-square-foot restaurant and use part of the proceeds to help pay for Mathis' treatments.
From the Courier:
I have listed my restaurant for several years and recently turned down an (owner-financed) offer for $1.3 million,” he said. “But now I want to auction it off at a reserve price (or minimum bid — 50 percent of the actual value) and anything above that will go to help Brittany.
EDIT:
I was too stupid to read the damn article in depth and gave a bit of a skewed interpretation of what it had to say. As you guys told me, he had it on sale for a while already and only intends to use a portion of the money to fund treatment, and the woman with the tumor is a family friend. It's generous, but hardly some heroic achievement. Sorry about that!
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This story got me in a good mood today. It's incredible that even in our cruel, Darwinian society, people are still willing to do things like this.
De Beyer wants to sell his German restaurant, Kaiserhof Restaurant and Wunderbar in Montgomery, Texas, not because the rathskeller business has taken a turn for the wurst, but rather, he says, to help pay for treatment for one of his employees, 19-year-old Brittany Mathis. She was recently diagnosed with a brain tumour the size of a pingpong ball, reports KHOU-11.
De Beyer told The Courier he wants to sell his 6,000-square-foot restaurant and use part of the proceeds to help pay for Mathis' treatments.
From the Courier:
I have listed my restaurant for several years and recently turned down an (owner-financed) offer for $1.3 million,” he said. “But now I want to auction it off at a reserve price (or minimum bid — 50 percent of the actual value) and anything above that will go to help Brittany.
EDIT:
I was too stupid to read the damn article in depth and gave a bit of a skewed interpretation of what it had to say. As you guys told me, he had it on sale for a while already and only intends to use a portion of the money to fund treatment, and the woman with the tumor is a family friend. It's generous, but hardly some heroic achievement. Sorry about that!