Parker’s Kitchen, a leading convenience store company with a powerful commitment to making a transformative impact in the communities it serves, recently presented a check for $360,000 to Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP) to support local injured veterans and their families across Georgia and South Carolina. WWP CEO Lt. Gen. (Ret.) Walt Piatt accepted the donation at the Parker’s Kitchen headquarters in Savannah, Ga.
“At Parker’s Kitchen, we’re incredibly honored to support local veterans and their families through our ongoing partnership with Wounded Warrior Project,” said Parker’s Kitchen founder and Executive Chairman Greg Parker. “Veterans are heroes who have selflessly served our nation and bravely defended our freedom. When you shop at Parker’s Kitchen, you know your money is staying local and making a positive impact.”
Parker’s Kitchen matched 25% of all customer donations during a round-up campaign earlier this year to amplify the impact and to help even more veterans.
“This is what a grateful nation looks like – communities coming together to honor the brave,” said Piatt. “Partners like Parker’s Kitchen help us change the way our nation cares for veterans and ensure no warrior – or their family – is left behind. Thanks to their generosity, we’re empowering local warriors through life-changing programs in mental and brain health, career counseling, benefits, physical wellness and long-term rehabilitative care.
Parker’s Kitchen round-up donations benefit a rotating series of nonprofit organizations through the Parker’s Community Fund, which supports area 501(c)3 organizations dedicated to making a positive, measurable impact in four key focus areas: supporting education, expanding access to healthcare, reducing hunger and helping local veterans.
Known for its longstanding commitment to charitable giving, Parker’s Kitchen is one of the most generous companies in the convenience store industry and in the Southeast. The company founded the Parker's Community Fund in 2021 with a major donation from Parker’s Kitchen founder and Executive Chairman Greg Parker.
In recent years, the company made a landmark $5 million donation to provide healthcare to uninsured and underinsured patients at Roper/St. Francis Healthcare in Charleston, S.C.; endowed the Parker’s Emergency and Trauma Center at Memorial Hospital in Savannah, Ga.; and made a record $5 million donation to name the Parker College of Business at Georgia Southern University, supporting the next generation of business leaders in Georgia. The Parker’s Community Fund also provided critical funding for Union Mission to open the Parker House for Women in Savannah, Ga., which is the region’s first and only facility for unaccompanied homeless women, and made a $1 million donation in July 2025 to support Union Mission’s new Resource Center in Savannah, Ga., which will open in the Spring of 2026.
In addition, the company’s Fueling the Community charitable initiative donates a portion of gas sold at all Parker’s and Parker’s Kitchen locations on the first Wednesday of each month to area schools. To date, the Fueling the Community program has donated more than $2.5 million to schools across Georgia and South Carolina.
Parker’s Kitchen stands apart as one of America’s most respected convenience store brands and is known for having the cleanest stores in the industry. Headquartered in Savannah, Ga., the company has enjoyed steady 20 to 24 percent annual growth for the past 25 years and has been featured on the prestigious Inc. 5000 list of the fastest-growing private companies in America eight times. Parker’s Kitchen has been honored as a USA TODAY Top Workplace, the Convenience Store Decisions Chain of the Year and the Convenience Store News Foodservice Leader of the Year. Founded in Midway, Ga., in 1976, Parker’s Kitchen is currently expanding into new markets across the Southeast, including Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Jacksonville, Fla.; and Columbia, S.C.
