Anthony Perez, a new restaurant opening field marketing manager at Wingstop, went above and beyond this year for two students attending his elementary school alma mater, Resurrection Catholic School in Houston. Anthony said he had thought about creating a personal scholarship fund for years, even before joining Wingstop! When he sat down with his manager at Wingstop, she encouraged him to use this as a personal goal for himself.

“I wanted to do something to give back to the community I grew up in that helped shaped me and many others. The school has been around for 80 years! I wanted to help give similar opportunities to students that I had received when younger. The school I attended was very low income and highly minority. There are good students there, but I know that parents probably would struggle trying to afford tuition since it’s a private catholic school in a low-income area.” – Anthony Perez

To create an opportunity not only to motivate students, but reward them as well, Anthony contacted the school principal. From there, they had many phone calls and meetings and ultimately established the Anthony Perez Scholarship, which Anthony funded personally, to help students with tuition.