Native New Yorker donating some proceeds to 100 Club

Maricopa’s Native New Yorker is one of 28 restaurants in the food chain that will donate 20 percent of all its proceeds Monday to the 100 Club of Arizona in response to the death of Phoenix Police Detective John Hobbs.

Hobbs was shot Monday while serving a felony warrant, according to Phoenix press releases.

“Last year, we came to an agreement with the 100 Club that the Monday after a tragedy involving a first responder, the restaurants would donate 20 percent of its sales to the 100 Club,” said Pat Kieny, owner of the Native New Yorker restaurant in Maricopa.

Kieny added the restaurant has been a supporter of the 100 Club for years and “we want to give back to the community.”

The 100 Club of Arizona provides financial assistance to the families of first responders who are killed or seriously injured on the job. The organization began in 1965. It is a nonprofit group.

The Native New Yorker also agreed to donate 15 percent of its proceeds each year on 9/11 and all first responders may eat free that day, he said.

The Native New Yorker, which changed its name in January to Native Grill and Wings, is in the process of changing its signs to the new name, Kieny said. He has owned Maricopa’s Native New Yorker since July 2006.

Floyd and Judy Anderson and their four daughters founded the restaurant chain more than 30 years ago, according to the chain’s website.

Two of the daughters’ husbands are first responders, Kieny said. Some of the Maricopa restaurant’s employees are married to local police officers.

“The risks the first responders take for all of us” is the reason the restaurant is donating this money, he said. “We just want to show our appreciation …for what these people do.”

“We would like to see the community come out and support this,” he added.