[Sca-cooks] Getting discounted foods - was: Menus

[Elaine Koogler]

Jadwiga Zajaczkowa / Jenne Heise wrote:

>>Getting donations is wonderful if you can manage it.  Vendors can write it
>>off on their taxes.  I have tried to get wholesale prices without much luck,
>>however.  When we looked into this option, we were told that since we were
>>not paying taxes on the other side (i.e. we were not re-selling the food and
>>paying tax on that food sale), we had to pay the tax when we bought it.
>>Just because we were a non-profit didn't get us a wholesale rating.  Anyone
>>else have different results?
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>Well, Restaurant Depot will let you shop there for a non-profit 
>organization if you can provide a copy of the group's tax certificate. 
>Christopher, who is a local group exchequer, is going to follow up on 
>that with our kingdom to see if we can do that.
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I know that I've shopped at the one near Baltimore, and they required a 
business license.  Does the tax certificate negate the need for this?

Kiri