Trying to ease the transition to unemployment, restaurateur Stephanie Byrd sent out a message to staff offering to open the doors to her restaurant, the Block, on Monday afternoon so they could pick up perishable items from the restaurant
to bring their bags and purchase the establishment’s remaining stores of rice, lentils, and spices.
Food banks around the country reported a deluge of requests to rescue food from restaurants, companies, and convention centers as events were canceled and businesses closed office cafeterias and sent employees home.Second Servings of Houston was already dealing with handling double its normal volume of requests for food pick-up last week from locations like the George R. Brown Convention Center and Minute Maid Park; however, Monday set a new standard: The food rescue organization tells Eater it collected a record-breaking 13,000 pounds of fresh food and redistributed it to more than 90 local charities sites across the city.
, communications specialist Kristen Torrez says the organization is expecting to field more calls from restaurants.were also putting in long shifts to deal with the high volume of donations that flooded in from canceled events, as well as office and school closures due to the impacts of COVID-19, totaling nearly 40,000 pounds of fresh produce, prepared foods, meat, dairy, and nonperishable items, food sourcing manager Jenna Harris writes in a statement.
As schools, college campuses, convention centers, restaurants, and caterers wound down operations over the last few days, many were dealing with food that had already been ordered, she says. “As more and more states get the mandate to close bars and restaurants for dining in, we expect that the need for our services will grow.” At the same time, there was more need for assistance in food-insecure communities.
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