Feed the Frontline and Feed Yourself
Feed your Soul and feed the frontline all at once when you order from one of the restaurants below. Also, find out about the other businesses in Los Angeles who are boomeranging off the concept and helping to serve those who need it most.
Frontline Foods
Frontline Foods, along with partners Chef José Andrés and World Central Kitchen, has already delivered over 500,000 meals to hospitals across the country and that’s only since March of 2020! They’ve been feeding frontline workers and helping restaurants stay afloat with their cooking. What’s their most recent boomerang? The group has now begun feeding protestors and helping to support black-owned businesses.
How you can help: Consider donating to their solidarity donation page which sends funds to those businesses who are in most need right now and will continue to fundraise when the “crisis” is over.
Urban Plates
Give a plate while you get a plate through the “Nourishing Heroes” program. Purchase a $12 meal for a local healthcare worker and Urban Plates will match it with a second meal.
Urban Plates specializes in healthy Individual meals for $10 and as low as $39 for a Family of 4. Make your donation when you order online or place an order over the phone.
Framily Meal
Framily meal is working to feed another type of frontline in Los Angeles: those in hospitality. Through the efforts of Chef Jessica Koslow (Sqirl) and backed by The Lee Initiative (Chef Edward Lee), Busy Philipps and Marc Silverstein, and many others; thousands of dinners are made available FOR FREE for out-of-work hospitality professionals.
Pickup happens from 4 to 7 p.m. at Sqirl and you can find more information about donations for Los Angeles and the whole country at https://leeinitiative.org.
I Want Nice Buns
This Pasadena bakery has more heart than buns. They’ve just launched a new delivery program and for every two 12-packs purchased they are sending one FREE to the USC Medical Center. The rest of the sticky details are on their website.
Casita del Campo
Keep a safe distance while still spreading the love with the purchase of a Casita Del Campo “Love Mask” from their website. The cost is $20 plus $5 shipping unless you’re picking up from the restaurant. Designed by Wardrobe Stylist Estevan Ramos, proceeds will go to help support the restaurant staff during this time. All masks come with a LOVE signature Casita Del Campo pin to help let others know what you’re all about.
The restaurant is open for pickup and delivery from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m.
Crateful Home Kitchen
The Hollywood Post 43 American Legion together with Crateful Catering, have partnered to create a new meal delivery service to serve the elderly and the most at-risk in the community. Crateful Home Kitchen offers affordable healthy meals for as little as $4 and includes options for children and family-style dining.
Besides providing free meals multiple times a week to hospital workers, 10% of the proceeds are also funding the PenFed Foundation’s COVID-19 Emergency Financial Relief Program for Veterans and Active Duty Military.
Free Delivery is available 3 times a week with a minimum of $100 to support family-style meals. See the menu and place your orders online.
Chado Tea
Now until Saturday, April 25th, Chado Tea will be donating a portion of all profits to Off Their Plate; a volunteer organization feeding hospital workers and keeping restaurant workers employed.
Afternoon Tea to Go is available daily from 12 to 4 p.m. from the Pasadena and Torrance locations, along with their whole menu of specialty sandwiches and cakes. You can also purchase items online and help fund this great cause.
Denny’s
Denny’s has always been “America’s diner”, so now more than ever they are stepping up to support the heart of the nation. Local Southern California locations have donated 1,800 FREE meals so far to local healthcare workers at various hospitals and they are just getting started.
Free delivery is available nationwide through the month of April (with a $20 minimum order) as well as takeout and grocery pickup options. Orders can be placed on Dennys.com.
Snackpass
The food ordering platform Snackpass is popular on the college scene and now they are offering their services by giving up 100% of their revenue to support local restaurants.
Sit-down establishments who have had to pivot into takeout can now set up online and app ordering for zero commission and setup fees through August 1st. They are also helping restaurants build out entire websites if they need it.
Here’s the site for restaurants to sign up for the online ordering platform for free! Eaters can sign up for ordering here.
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