Cindy Cavalieri has been organizing fundraising events for the World Food Program in Alexandria for the past four years. In previous years, the events have involved walkathons, but this year Cavalieri found a backer: On Thursday, Chicken Out in Alexandria donated 20 percent of all sales to the program, which distributes food from countries with a surplus to countries with very little.

Why have the fundraiser at a restaurant this year?

People [could] just come have dinner and donate. With this economy it’s hard to ask anyone to give up money, but with this they don’t have to do anything more than just have dinner.