3 Palo Alto Restaurants Get $100K Gifts From Mark Zuckerberg

Nick Garber
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PALO ALTO, CA — Three Palo Alto eateries are among the eight Peninsula restaurants that received surprise $100,000 donations in recent weeks from Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, who said they were hoping to help keep their favorite local restaurants afloat during the coronavirus crisis.

The restaurants include some of Zuckerberg and Chan's personal favorites, Palo Alto Online reported. Restaurant owners can use the money however they like, whether to cover rent, pay out-of-work employees or cook meals for donation.

One of the recipients, Seiko Alba, who owns the Japanese restaurant Dohatsuten in Palo Alto, said the gift let her keep the restaurant open for takeout and rehire most of her kitchen staff to prepare meals for local hospitals and shelters, according to Palo Alto Online.

The restaurants that received the donations are:

  • Dohatsuten (Palo Alto)

  • Palo Alto Sol (Palo Alto)

  • Fuki Sushi (Palo Alto)

  • Vesta (Redwood City)

  • Sushi Sam's Edomata (San Mateo)

  • Chef Chu's (Los Altos)

  • La Ciccia (San Francisco)

  • The Liberties Bar & Grill (San Francisco)

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This article originally appeared on the Palo Alto Patch