03/20/2020
CALL FOR RESTAURANTS TO DONATE FOOD TO HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS AND FIRST RESPONDERS
Although we have been open for a short time, we at Cashmere Bistro & Tavern recognize our place in our community and we strive to do what we can to celebrate and serve those who help to make our neighborhoods safe, strong, and vibrant.
During this uncertain time, we are calling on our colleagues in the restaurant industry to donate unused products to healthcare professionals and first responders.
Since restaurants are closed for the foreseeable future, we all have many perishable products in our kitchens. If these are not sold, they will go to waste.
We ask that rather than put your food in your waste logs, you use it to strengthen and celebrate the members of our community who are working the most dangerous jobs during this epidemic.
Healthcare personnel, firefighters, police officers, members of the national guard, and so forth, are working on the front lines of this crisis and are at an increased risk of exposure.
Amid all the confusion and uncertainty, we restaurant professionals have a unique opportunity to a make small but impactful gestures to these individuals.
By providing them with a professionally prepared meal free of charge, we can remind them that they are appreciated, respected, and valued members of our community — that they are making a great difference in this simmering chaos.
Please, reach out to a hospital, urgent care facility, fire or police department and arrange to drop off individually-wrapped prepared meals.
Let them know we’re not only thinking of the safety of ourselves, but that we are also thinking of the risks they are taking and the necessary services they are providing.
Join us in our efforts to strengthen those of us who need to be strongest during our hour of need.
Let’s pay it forward.