North Texas restaurants are adding to efforts to combat human trafficking through a program that distributes informational placards to be mounted in restaurant bathrooms, inspired by an incident at a Dallas Jack In The Box.
The idea came to Chris Aslam, who has 12 franchised Jack In the Box Locations, after an a woman who was helping authorities look for a trafficking victim came into one of his restaurants, NBC 5, Dallas-Fort Worth reported.
Aslam said the woman told him she wanted to check the bathroom, as victims of trafficking frequently seek to hide from their abusers in bathrooms. That gave him the idea for mounting placards in his bathrooms with instructions for victims on how to get help.
As president-elect of the Greater Dallas Restaurant Association, Aslam recently helped to launch a program to distribute the placards to restaurants around the area.
“The response has been enormous so far,” Aslam said.
He said he would like to grow the program to cover all of Texas.
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