Park Place Motorcars Fort Worth members Mercedes Lopez, Lorena Arredondo and Sara Aldous with General Manager George Johnson
Park Place Motorcars Fort Worth recently held a food drive among its 150 employees (which are referred to as members) to benefit the Tarrant Area Food Bank. As the deadline approached and items trickled in from the different departments, General Manager George Johnson offered a challenge. He promised to personally match the total number of food items collected.
“It was worth a couple hundred bucks to motivate our members to really get behind the food drive,” said Johnson. “I was pleasantly surprised at the response. Then I was shocked when I went to the grocery store and saw how much canned goods really cost. I thought they’d be three or four for a dollar. I guess it’d been a while since I did the shopping.”
Park Place Motorcars members donated 1,818 food items. True to his promise, Johnson bought 1,818 items for a total of 3,636 items. The total weight of the food was 3,577 pounds (1.78 tons.)
“While virtually everyone in the dealership participated… from the service and sales departments to BodyWerks, accounting, finance, and human resources… three members deserve special recognition,” reports Johnson. “Mercedes Lopez, Lorena Arredondo and Sara Aldous organized the drive. I’m proud of how everyone got behind the effort and very pleased that we could give back to our community.”
The Tarrant Area Food Bank’s mission is to empower communities to eliminate hunger by providing food, education and resources through innovation and collaboration. More info is available at tafb.org.
Park Place Motorcars is located at 5601 Bryant Irvin Road, just off I-20 or the Chisholm Trail Parkway.
Ken Schnitzer founded Park Place Dealerships in 1987 with a single Mercedes-Benz dealership on Oak Lawn. Today, Park Place Dealerships employs more than 2,000 people and operates 18 full-service dealerships representing luxury brands including Lexus, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche, Infiniti, Volvo, smart, Jaguar, Lotus, Rolls-Royce, Bentley, McLaren, and Maserati. For more information about Park Place Dealerships, visit parkplace.com.