O’Charley’s customers will have an opportunity to help a flood victim Saturday.

The restaurant is holding a pancake breakfast its for assistant kitchen manager, Octavio Perez, and his family from 7:30-9:45 a.m. Donations are $5 for the meal, which will include pancakes, bacon, sausage, scrambled eggs, brunch potatoes and a choice of orange juice, coffee or milk.

Jason Deal, a manager at the restaurant located on The Landing Drive, said public response has already been phenomenal.

Signs taped on all of the restaurant’s doors have attracted attention, he said, with people asking for more information about the benefit.

Those who won’t be able to make it to the breakfast have been leaving donations for the family.

“People have been wonderful,” Deal said, telling of several Bank of America employees who’d seen one of the signs.

While he was at the bank making a deposit this week, some of the women asked for Perez’s wife and children’s clothing sizes. He took them the sizes Thursday, and they have decided to donate clothes and toys.

Perez, his wife, Irasema, and their two daughters — Lisette, 9, and Elsy, 3 — left home during last month’s flooding with just the clothes on their backs.

They were at home that night around 11:30 p.m. when Perez noticed about 5 to 6 inches of water coming into the house.

Deal filled in the rest of the story.

“He grabbed up his wife and two daughters and drove to his sister’s house,” Deal recounted.

That’s where they remain; their home is a total loss.

The house sits downhill on a lot not far from the Sweetwater Creek in Lithia Springs. By the time Perez came back to the house, the water was chest deep, and everything in it was floating.

“Within a couple of hours, water was up to the roof,” Deal said.

The home, like many others, was not covered by flood insurance. The insurance policy the couple has doesn’t cover much of the damage. The pressure of the water caused one of the walls to crack.

The family has been living with Perez’s sister ever since.

Perez has worked at O’Charley’s for nearly 10 years.

Anyone who would like more information or wants to make a donation may call the restaurant at 770-920-4646.