Hospital Heroes Food Drive
During the 2020 Covid-19 outbreak our business was forced to all but shut down. Our parent company Small Talk Media has many clients that aren’t food and beverage focused, however Table Talk is all F&B. With restaurants around the US forced to close we had to shut down our operations and hunker down in our homes with the rest of the world. During this time I started having conversations with peers and partners about what we could do with all of our free time to help people during the outbreak. One of the people I connected with was Dennis Carradin at The Trauma Survivors Foundation. Dennis’s fiancé is a nurse at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphia. She was having conversations with Dennis about the emergency room becoming more and more busy with testing and patients. Nurses were feeling beaten down, having a hard time getting transportation, getting into altercations with patients and having trouble accessing meals during their long busy shifts. This is when Dennis and I decided to launch the Hospital Heroes Food Drive. The idea was to drive donations from general consumers, use that money to buy large takeout orders from local restaurants and deliver those meals to medical workers and first responders in areas that were getting hit the hardest.
After a few months we were able to raise over $50,000 between monetary contributions and donated food items. We’re still going strong with the program and hope to keep it moving for a long time as medical workers will always be the unsung heroes of our communities. To this point we’ve estimated feeding over 10,000 medical workers and first responders in the Philadelphia, Delaware and New Jersey areas.
Here’s our story featured on local news stations
HOW CAN YOU HELP?
Buy a meal! Partner restaurants are being paid around $6 per meal which barely covers their cost. CLICK HERE to make a donation through our partners at The Trauma Survivors Foundation.
Become a restaurant partner! We’re looking for more restaurants that can help fulfill orders and deliver to hospital staff. If you have a kitchen and you’re willing to prepare, pack and possibly deliver orders. CLICK HERE to signup on our restaurant request form. Donated meals take priority and we’re extremely grateful!
If your Covid-19 testing or treatment facility could use a little help getting food to staff please fill out our MEAL REQUEST FORM and a volunteer will try to get you on the schedule.
Deliver Meals! We need volunteers to pickup meals from the restaurants and drop off at the healthcare facilities. CLICK HERE for more information or to signup.
Article written by Rob Wright | Founder, Table Talk
Web savvy restaurant marketing pro with experience owning, running and marketing food and beverage businesses.
