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Mercuries F&B – Cooking for Charity Campaign
Since 2008, Mercuries F&B has spread love through the Mercuries Food Chain’s Cooking for Charity Campaign event for 15 consecutive years, and has been devoted to care for elementary and junior high schools and social organizations in remote areas of Taiwan. In 2023, the Cooking for Charity Campaign team of Mercuries F&B hosted a total of 7 charity cooking activities for more than 700 school children and teachers, and invested a total of NTD 101,500.
Taipei Charitable Food Network 2.0 “Hope Canteen”
In 2021, at the invitation of the Taipei City Government, six brands of Mercuries F&B (Mercuries Food Chain, Napoli, DonMono, Tonkatsu, PIN CHUAN LAN, Mercuries Food Chain PLUS) jointly promoted charitable food with other industry partners. The upgraded Charitable Food Network 2.0 “Hope Canteen” is aimed to assist disadvantaged groups in meal voucher redemption. Customized packages have been designed for this campaign by taking into account the nutrition of disadvantaged people. The meal resources of “Vegetables for All” have also been integrated, catering to those who need a vegetable diet.
Mercuries F&B has 52 meal redemption restaurants in Taipei City. As of the end of 2023, Mercuries F&B provided more than 12,783 meals to the underprivileged, exercising the power of corporate care so that these people in need of help could enjoy a warm meal.
Taiwan Meal Sharing Association “Meal-Sharing Campaign”
During the pandemic, the “eFOOOD sharing map” organization received donated suspended meals and resources from the public. To distribute these donations and make financial flows open and transparent for the public, the “Taiwan Meal Sharing Association” was established. Through the care and concern of government agencies and local social welfare organizations, the organization provides “suspended meal” vouchers to the underprivileged to redeem for warm meals. By doing this, those who are truly in need can have warm food.
Mercuries F&B also joined the eFOOOD sharing map in 2022. We integrated 358 restaurants across Taiwan to provide local non-profit organizations with rich catering resources to share warmth with the underprivileged groups. As of the end of 2023, Mercuries F&B provided more than 3,743 meals. It is hoped that those we help will also help others in the future, thereby circulating love.
“New Taipei City Good Day Charity Platform” Suspended Meal Campaign
As of the end of 2023, over 1,500 restaurants joined hands with New Taipei City’s Suspended Meal Campaign, initiated in August 2021, benefiting over 360,000 people. Mercuries F&B also joined the campaign in September 2022 by collaborating with the Social Welfare Department, New Taipei City Government to provide vouchers for suspended meals, providing a variety of meal boxes to the underprivileged. As of the end of 2023, more than 17,763 people benefited from this campaign.
Mercuries F&B and EasyCard jointly launching “Pay with EasyCard and Send Love to Taiwan Fund for Children and Families”
Everyone can become a force for change for disadvantaged children and families. Mercuries F&B joined hands with EasyCard Corporation to support various topics of Taiwan Fund for Children and Families from “surrounded by love” and “poverty-free generation” to “freedom from poverty and self-sufficiency” through education enhancement, life stability, capability construction and emergency aid service projects. Through these projects, we are able to provide disadvantaged children and families with the educational and living resources they need as well as employment opportunities for youth and ethnic groups in need of care, so that they can help families overcome poverty with their own capabilities and gradually become self-sufficient.
2023 is the third year that Mercuries F&B has cooperated with TFCF. We worked with EasyCard Corporation to support Taiwan Fund for Children and Families in the “Poverty-free Generation” campaign. The 328Mercuries F&B restaurants invited the public to send love to Taiwan Fund for Children and Families. After the conclusion of the campaign, EasyCard Corporation jointly donated NTD 400,000 to TFCF.
Child Welfare League Foundation Working With Mercuries Food Chain in Holding the “Pass on the Love” Bag Sale Campaign
To draw attention to the plight of disadvantaged children in Taiwan, this year Mercuries F&B and the Child Welfare League Foundation jointly launched the “Pass on the Love” bag sale event. During the event, the “Yina” eco-friendly canvas bags can be brought home for extra NTD 99 at Mercuries Food Chain or DonMono. Campaign Ambassador Una Lu also called on the public to make an effort in environmental protection while helping disadvantaged children in Taiwan, hoping to unite the power of society and guard their happiness.
The proceeds from the charity sale reached NTD 1.98 million, and all of them were donated to the Child Welfare League Foundation’s “Relief Fund Raising for Underprivileged Children”. This enables more children in Taiwan to have comprehensive learning opportunities, living assistance, and health care and grow up healthily and happily in a friendly environment.
Tonkatsu Teamed up With TFCF in “Protect Children With You” Donation Campaign
Tonkatsu, a Mercuries F&B restaurant, has always prided itself on its high value for money. Tonkatsu’s self-service bar with every set meal ordered is popular among customers. However, it also made us think about the plight of the underprivileged children, as they often lack the basic necessities, and even do not have enough food.
In October 2023, Tonkatsu teamed up with TFCF to organize the “Protect Children With You” charity campaign. During the campaign, consumers only needed to order a designated charitable meal set, and Tonkatsu donated NTD 20 to the Taiwan Fund for Children and Families, which helps children in need. About 9,960 sets of charitable meals sets were sold during the event, donating a total of NTD 100,000.
DonMono Teaming Up with Eden Social Welfare Foundation for “Love Spawns”
In 2023, Mercuries F&B once again teamed up with the Eden Social Welfare Foundation. DonMono launched the “Love Spawns Meal” public welfare campaign in February. Meal coupons were issued to customers who donated receipts when scanning a code of Eden Social Welfare Foundation at the checkout. In addition, during the event period, promotional cards of the Eden Social Welfare Foundation were distributed to all consumers in the restaurants, inviting them to join the donation campaign. A total of 579 receipts were donated during the campaign. After the campaign ended, all the restaurants continued to display charity codes for donation at the checkout counters to encourage consumers to donate receipts, prompting a good cycle.
Mercuries F&B’s Napoli Joining Hands With “Children Are Us Foundation” for Raising Funds
In 2023, Mercuries F&B’s Napoli joined hands with the Children Are Us Foundation for the second time to focus on the issue of work training for people with mental disabilities. During the campaign, customers who purchased a set meal over NTD 599 in Napoli for sit-in or take away received a file folder specially drawn by the popular illustrator “MZZ”. For every purchase, extra NTD 5 was donated by Napoli to support work training for the Children Are Us Foundation. During the campaign, a total of approximately 80,000 file folders were given out, with NTD 400,000 raised to be donated to the Children Are Us Foundation.
Food Donation
Mercuries F&B has been working with Alliance of Taiwan Foodbanks since 2017 to convert leftover food (such as instant food or fruits and vegetables with poor appearance) into “full foods” through a recycling and sorting process to provide for people in need and reduce food waste, while also meeting the environmental protection goals of energy saving and carbon reduction. In 2023, we donated more than 2,500 kilograms of food to the Chensenmei Social Welfare Foundation, providing more diverse and sufficient meals for the children in the foundation’s care. This will be also continued in 2024.
Taiwan Masters and 37th Mercuries Golf Tournament
To thank the Taiwan Golf & Country Club and the residents of the Tamsui District for their unwavering support and help over the years, Mercuries F&B also participated in public welfare with its own resources and held a charity sale of beef noodles of Mercuries Food Chain and Gyūdon of DonMono. A total of 4,927 bowls of food were sold, raising NTD 241,423, to be donated to the “Tamsui Culture Foundation”.
Mercuries Tigers Fan Meeting – Former Players and Fans Entering History for Glory! /Donation for “Taiwan Baseball and Softball Association”
On December 2, 2023, Mercuries F&B hosted the “Mercuries Tigers Fan Meeting”. This event aimed to allow Taiwan baseball fans to gather with the former players of Mercuries Tigers reminisce about the team’s glorious history.
Among them, Mr. Chen Ho-Tung, the former chairman of Mercuries Tigers, was inducted into the Taiwan Baseball Hall of Fame in 2023 under the Special Dedication category. Mr. Chen will always be remembered in the history of baseball in Taiwan for his nicknames “Professional Baseball Pusher” and “Father of Slow Pitch Softball”. In addition, Mercuries F&B also donated NTD 200,000 to the “Taiwan Baseball and Softball Association” during the event, hoping to help baseball fans with disabilities realize their dreams and pass on the spirit of baseball.
This fan meeting was not only a chance for fans to meet their heroes from the past, but also an opportunity to unite and share fond memories, as well as a salute to the history of professional baseball in Taiwan. Through the meet, Tiger fans were able to re-live the glory and emotion that the Mercuries Tigers once brought to them, and to remember and cherish the spindled history of the Mercuries Tigers forever.
Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture – Food Culture Promotion
The Foundation of Chinese Dietary Culture was established in 1989 by Mr. Weng Chao-Hsi, the founder of Mercuries & Associates, As a founder of a private foundation, Mr. Weng’s focus is researching and preserving the Chinese food culture, with the aim to explore and research on the closely related aspects of the Chinese food culture. This includes astronomy, geography, history, literature, art, archaeology, cultural relics, legends, etiquette, customs and traditions, aesthetics, philosophy, science of life, living culture, and cooking skills, enabling systematic passing down of the Chinese food culture.
As of the end of 2023, the Chinese Dietary Culture Library has a collection of 30,947 books, 80 titles of periodicals, 2,450 types of audiovisual materials, and 3,668 domestic and international menus. The library’s special collections include ancient food books, state banquet menus, and more. The library is the only library in the world that collects and preserves Chinese food culture. As a benchmark of the catering industry, Mercuries F&B also actively supports the foundation by investing various resources in the inheritance of Chinese food culture. Between 2021 and 2023, Mercuries F&B donated NTD 4.75 million, NTD 4.5 million, and 2.5 million, respectively to the foundation.
