Alamo Drafthouse DFW & MN Emergency Relief Fund

On the morning of Thursday June 6th, nearly 600 employees of five Alamo Drafthouse locations across DFW and one in Minnesota were shocked with the news that we were no longer employed just hours before business was set to open for the day.

The franchise owner Bill DiGaetano, and his father, filed for bankruptcy and closed every location under their ownership without proper notice. That is the key point there, without proper notice and on the last day of our pay period.

Most importantly: because of the bankruptcy, we have not been paid for the last two weeks of labor we provided or our available PTO. Since the bankruptcy was filed on the last day of our pay period, we were unknowingly providing labor that we would not be paid for in a reasonable time period. Depending on how long the bankruptcy and the liquidation of assets takes, we may not see compensation for those wages for months or potentially years. We are all filing for unemployment but for some of us it may not yield results for up to thirty days and will be a fraction of our regular income. Most of us were already living paycheck to paycheck and this has made all of our situations even more uncertain.

This fundraiser will be to help the staff from each location get by while we figure our next moves and await unemployment to kick in. We're hoping to raise $10,000 for each location. The Denton team has a separate fundraiser for their store so we want to help the other 4 locations in DFW and the 1 in Minnesota. For most of us, Alamo was more than just a job and had become our home away from home and a safe place for everyone to be who they are. We were a community that lifted each other up and banded together when things got rough and now is no different.

Any money donated here is going to be split evenly amongst each location to the employees that need help the most in this unsure time. Thank you for giving anything that you can to support us!