导读：美国威斯康星州的一位餐馆老板在餐饮业的艰难时期花费了数千美元来支持他的竞争对手。

 

Adolfo Melendez, owner of Tex-Mex restaurant El Mezcal in Stevens Point, has bought more than $2,000 gift cards to restaurants in his community to raffle off （抽奖）to his customers(顾客). He took the money out of his own pocket. "If you help one person and another person helps another, that will help a lot," Melendez said.
位于史蒂文斯角（Stevens Point）的德墨风味餐馆El-Mezcal的老板阿道夫•梅伦德斯（Adolfo Melendez）向社区内的餐厅购买了2000多美元的礼品卡，向顾客抽奖。他从自己的口袋里拿出了这笔钱。梅伦德斯说：“如果你帮助一个人，另一个人帮助另一个人，那会有很大帮助。”
Melendez said he got the idea to help his other restaurants after a local company helped his restaurant at the beginning of the COVID-19."They asked people to vote for their favorite restaurant and I got second place , so they bought $300 gift cards from me," he said. "Right after that I was like I'll probably do something similar."
梅伦德斯表示，在新冠疫情之初，当地一家公司帮助他的餐厅后，他萌生了帮助其他餐厅的想法。他说：“他们做了一些事情，人们投票给他们最喜欢的餐厅，我获得了第二名，所以他们从我那里买了300美元的礼品卡。就在那之后，我觉得我可能会做类似的事情。”

 

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