RAYNHAM – Most businesses are closed on Thanksgiving, but Our Mom’s Place in Raynham is open special hours with a limited menu, which happens to be free. All the restaurant asks is that people donate what they can to charity.
Free food on Thanksgiving
“I was driving by and I saw ‘free free free,’ my favorite word, and ‘Thanksgiving,'” said Raynham neighbor Susan Burns. “I love giving back to the community.”
The restaurant is donating the money in honor of a little girl named Mary Eisner, who died while battling cancer.
“Just after she turned three, she was diagnosed with hepatoblastoma, a rare liver and childhood cancer, and she battled it for about five years,” says Mary’s mother Christina.
“We don’t accept tips or anything. Any money left behind will be donated to the Mary Eisner Foundation and cancer research,” said Diner employee Genia Simmons.
Both Christina and Mary’s sister, Kaitlin, joined us for breakfast on Thursday. They were grateful to see friends and strangers step up to support their cause.
“After her death we decided that we wanted to do something positive with it. We started a foundation and we use that money to help other people and other families, especially with cancer journeys,” says Christina.
“It’s nice to see people remember her,” Kaitlin says.
The community is more than happy to help the Eisners.
“We are all connected,” Burns says.
Our Mom’s Place raised about $3,000 last year and they hope to break that record this year.
